I am a career advisor for the Master of Professional Studies in Applied Statistics at Cornell University. A requirement for this one year program is completion of a project whereby the students work with clients who have data and real world problems. I hope I am not off base by sending this email but since networking is one of the objectives in this group I thought I would reach out to you and ask if anyone in the Statistical Consulting Section of ASA have any relevant projects and would like to work with these students, or could give me some advice (other than contacting alumni) in whom you think would be interested in working with our students? Thank you.
Mary Ellen Buhl
The following are the specifications of the project:
Specifications of an MPS Project
? An MPS project
o is a statistical consulting project
o requires a client
o deals with real world data
o starts in the fall semester and ends in mid-April
? A client:
o provides data for the project
o communicates with the student(s) on a regular base
o proposes project goal(s)
o explains data if needed
o attends project presentation if possible
o completes an evaluation of student's performance and send it to the MPS
program after the completion of the project
? A dataset:
o is derived from a real world problem
o can be any type (financial, medical, scientific, business-related, ...)
o should have a reasonable size (a big dataset is preferred but not always
necessary)
o should be collected before the project begins
? A student:
o understands the data
o cleans up the data if needed
o communicates with the client regularly as the project moves forward
o proposes initial project design to meet the client's requirements/goals
o finalizes the project design by communicating with the client and his/her
project advisor
o performs the statistical analysis
o must use SAS to do the statistical analysis
o completes the final project report (in MS Word)
o sends the report to the client by mid-April
o invites the client to the project presentation
o presents the project to the class (in PowerPoint) as a part of project
evaluation process
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Mary Ellen Buhl
Cornell University
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