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Statistical Research

Some Advice for Beginners

Michael Hamada Michael Hamada is a Technical Staff Member in Statistical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 . Randy Sitter is Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada. The first author thanks Gouri Bhattacharyya, George Box, Murray Clayton, Tom Leonard, Rick Nordheim, Kam Tsui, and Jeff Wu, who helped him in developing his research process as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The second author thanks John Petkau, Jeff Wu, and Jon Rao for their similar and invaluable aid as he progressed from master's student to Assistant Professor, at the University of British Columbia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Waterloo, and Carleton University. We thank George Duncan, Todd Graves, Crystal Linkletter, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Harry Martz, Laura McNamara, David Scott, and Greg Wilson for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. We also thank the Editor, Associate Editor, and referees for many invaluable suggestions and even their own advice on doing research which we have incorporated. Finally, we thank Art Dempster, Julian Faraway, Scott Grimshaw, Alfred Hero, Valen Johnson, Jon Kettenring, Jerry Lawless, Bill Meeker, John Nelder, Frank Samaniego, and Lynne Stokes for providing helpful comments and additional strategies for doing research.
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Randy Sitter Michael Hamada is a Technical Staff Member in Statistical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 . Randy Sitter is Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada. The first author thanks Gouri Bhattacharyya, George Box, Murray Clayton, Tom Leonard, Rick Nordheim, Kam Tsui, and Jeff Wu, who helped him in developing his research process as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The second author thanks John Petkau, Jeff Wu, and Jon Rao for their similar and invaluable aid as he progressed from master's student to Assistant Professor, at the University of British Columbia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Waterloo, and Carleton University. We thank George Duncan, Todd Graves, Crystal Linkletter, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Harry Martz, Laura McNamara, David Scott, and Greg Wilson for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. We also thank the Editor, Associate Editor, and referees for many invaluable suggestions and even their own advice on doing research which we have incorporated. Finally, we thank Art Dempster, Julian Faraway, Scott Grimshaw, Alfred Hero, Valen Johnson, Jon Kettenring, Jerry Lawless, Bill Meeker, John Nelder, Frank Samaniego, and Lynne Stokes for providing helpful comments and additional strategies for doing research.
Pages 93-101 | Published online: 01 Jan 2012
 
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Abstract

For new graduate students, we discuss issues and aspects of doing statistical research and provide advice. We answer questions that we had when we were beginners, like “When do I start?”, “How do I start?”, “How do I find out what has already been done?”, “How do I make progress?”, “How do I finish?”, and “What else can I do?”.

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