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研究小组之间的合作，为英国各地的统计学博士生（包括统计学方法论，应用统计学和应用概率的学生）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重要的数学，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。该学院因此直接解决了2003年EPSRC/CMS国际数学评论关于英国博士培训的广度和质量的一些关键问题，特别是训练有素的研究统计学家的长期短缺。它在这方面的成功已经得到了EPSRC赞助的DTZ审查结果的认可。目前，每年有来自英国和爱尔兰共和国300多所机构的60多名一年级博士生接受培训。培训集中在四个密集的住宿周，每周涉及两个APTS模块的教学。EPSRC继续提供资金将允许部分支持参与EPSRC的博士生前往APTS周，有助于编写和更新APTS模块，并支付中央管理费用。这将有助该计划在资助期结束时转为自资模式。

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.