Explorations in Statistics Research

统计研究探索研讨会是一个暑期项目，来自全国各地的40名参与者聚集在一起，其中包括24名本科生、8名研究生、3名研究员兼主持人、2至3名组织者以及2至3名额外的教员。在这个为期一周的研讨会中，本科生与统计学家和研究生密切合作，分析应用统计学前沿领域当前重要研究问题的数据。该项目的第一天是对统计软件的快节奏介绍。然后，在研究统计师的带领下，学生们花两天时间探索一个研究主题。在六天的时间里，他们与三名不同的研究人员就三个不同的主题进行了合作。每次为期两天的探索都是从研究人员介绍他或她的问题开始的。然后是调查阶段，学生主要通过可视化来熟悉为解决问题而收集的数据。学生继续进行更深入的分析，他们提出并讨论他们的发现，研究人员将学生的发现与该领域的研究结果联系起来。此外，学生们还参加了三个下午和晚上的会议，讨论如何申请研究生院，研究生院是什么样子，以及统计方面的职业。该项目将在不同的机构举办，为期四年。它将于2009年在加州大学伯克利分校、2010年在国家大气研究中心、2011年在加州大学洛杉矶分校和2012年在哥伦比亚大学举行。统计研究探索工作坊让学生了解统计学在科学发现中的作用，目的是鼓励他们在统计科学方面继续深造。学生使用计算能力强大而又直观的现代统计方法，他们深入研究问题，开始解开重要研究问题的答案。预计这一经历将吸引学员攻读统计学研究生课程。此外，该项目有可能增加攻读统计学研究生学位的美国学生的多样性。如2005年和2006年的试点研讨会所见，参加该计划的49名本科生中有25名是女性，11名学生来自历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体。此外，该计划预计将通过让现有和未来的教师接触到更具应用性和计算性的、更有可能激发学生对统计研究的兴趣的统计教学创新方法，来改进对劳动力的培训。此外，讲习班项目的教育材料将分发给更广泛的统计界，供本科生统计课程使用。

The Exploration in Statistics Research Workshop is a summer program that brings together forty participants from around the country, including twenty-four undergraduate students, eight graduate students, three researcher-presenters, two-to-three organizers, and two-to-three additional faculty. During this one-week workshop, undergraduates work closely with statisticians and graduate students to analyze data from important, current research problems at the frontiers of applied statistics. The first day of the program is a fast-paced introduction to statistical software. Then, led by a research statistician, students explore a research topic for two days. Over the course of six days, they work with three different researchers on three different topics. Each two-day exploration begins with the researcher's introducing his or her problem. This is followed by an investigation phase where students become familiar, primarily through visualization, with the data collected to address the problem. Students continue with their analysis in greater depth, they present and discuss their findings, and the researcher connects students findings to research results in the field. In addition, students attend three afternoon and evening sessions on how to apply to graduate school, what graduate school is like, and careers in statistics. The program is to be hosted at different institutions for four years. It will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 2010, UCLA in 2011, and Columbia University in 2012.The Explorations in Statistics Research Workshop gives students an understanding of the role of statistics in scientific discovery, with the goal of encouraging them to pursue advanced studies in statistical science. Students employ computationally powerful, yet intuitive, modern statistical methods, and they delve into problems to begin to unlock the answers to important research questions. It is expected that this experience will entice participants into graduate studies in statistics. Furthermore, the program has the potential to increase the diversity of U.S. students who pursue graduate degrees in statistics. As seen in 2005 and 2006 pilot workshops, twenty-five of the forty-nine undergraduate participants in the program were women, and eleven were students from historically under-represented groups in science. Furthermore, the program is expected to improve the training of the workforce by exposing current and future faculty to innovative approaches to teaching statistics that are more applied and computationally-based and more likely to excite students about statistics research. In addition, educational materials from the workshop projects will be disseminated to the broader statistics community for use in undergraduate statistics courses.