Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS) - Follow on Funding

统计学博士培训学院是英国九所著名大学统计学研究小组之间的合作，为全英国统计学博士（包括统计方法学、应用统计学和应用概率专业的学生）提供第一年培训的基本核心。这种学术资源的汇集使我们能够为来自英国各地的新博士生提供最基本的数学，计算和统计技术的系统，高质量的基础，以及统计研究重要领域的权威概述。因此，学院直接解决了2003年EPSRC/CMS国际数学评论关于英国博士培训的广度和质量，特别是训练有素的研究统计学家的长期短缺的一些关键问题。它在这方面的成功得到了由戴德梁行赞助的epsrc审查结果的认可。目前，每年有60多名一年级博士研究生接受培训，他们来自英国和爱尔兰共和国的30多个机构。培训集中在四个密集的住宿周，每周包括两个APTS模块的教学。EPSRC的继续资助将为参与EPSRC的博士生提供部分APTS周旅行支持，为APTS模块的准备和更新做出贡献，并支付中央管理费用。这将有助于在赠款期结束时将APTS转为自筹资金模式。

The Academy for PhD training in statistics is a collaboration between nine prominent UK University statistics researchgroups, which delivers a basic core of first-year training to PhD students in statistics (including students of statisticalmethodology, applied statistics and applied probability) across the UK. This pooling of academic resources allows us tooffer new PhD students from across the UK a systematic, high quality grounding in the most essential mathematical,computational and statistical techniques, as well as authoritative overviews of important areas of statistical research. TheAcademy thus addresses directly some key concerns of the 2003 EPSRC/CMS International Review of Mathematicsabout the breadth and quality of UK PhD training and specifically the chronic shortage of well-trained researchstatisticians. Its success in doing this has been endorsed by the findings of an EPSRC-sponsored review by DTZ.Presently training is given to an annual cohort of more than 60 first year PhD students, coming from more than 30institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Training is centred on four intensive residential weeks, each week involvingthe teaching of two APTS modules. The continuation of EPSRC funding will allow partial support of travel to APTS weeksfor participating EPSRC PhD students, contribute to preparation and updating of APTS modules, and cover centraladministration costs. This will facilitate the movement of APTS to a self-funding mode at the end of the grant period.