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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by apl on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:00AM (#4548857)
I'm equally confused by his point about non-statistics departments doing more statistics than their "proper" counterparts. While that may be true, the bulk of cutting edge research in a given field always comes from specialists. I've never heard of substantial statistical advances arising in psychology departments (even though they're arguably one of the biggest "consumers" of statistics out there).

It's a bit like trickle-down economics.

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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by stakka on Thursday September 20, 2012 @01:46PM (#4549712)
I think you have to look 'up' the stream. Physics has given statistics some of the biggest ideas in the recent past. I think biology is relatively mathless unless it's *omics crap, and then again you have non-statisticians contributing to stats. Also plenty of CS stuff for stats.
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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by jamessb on Thursday September 20, 2012 @06:18PM (#4551050)
There are definitely other mathy areas: crystallography, biophysics, computational neuroscience, theoretical ecology, and applications of simulation methods like CFD and FEA to physiology, . . .

But yes, most biological research doesn't require much mathematics.

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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by bromang on Friday September 21, 2012 @05:51AM (#4553056)
can you give some examples of statistical advances from physics?
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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by dbecker on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:35PM (#4549971)
Econometricians (based in economics departments) have contributed to the cutting edge of statistical knowledge.
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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by 001sky on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:52PM (#4552121)
Financial econometrics, in particular, is among the most adavanced actual uses of statistics. This is also not all occuring in academe.
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Re:How long will there be computer science departments? by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:33PM (#4550267)
meta analysis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

Invented to look at telepathy, and Rhine was definitely a psychologist (though one the field unfairly tries to forget). That being said, I thought Glass was a psychologist but he was actually a statistician, so I suppose the modern form of meta-analysis was, in fact, invented by a statistician. Do psychometricians count as statisticians? If not, then quite a few more things were invented outside of statistics.

Psychology: not just for innumerate touchy feely hippies (just mostly).

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