Ethical Numbers: Ethics Training in U.S. Graduate Statistics Programs, 2013–2014.
As important members of research teams, statisticians bear an ethical responsibility to analyze, interpret, and report data honestly and objectively. One way of reinforcing ethical responsibilities is through required courses covering a variety of ethics-related topics at the graduate level. We asse...
| Publicado en: | American Statistician Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 11 - 17 |
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