Re: st: NRC rankings

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

In all modesty I direct you to the bottom of the page:

http://www.amstat.org/outreach/departmentsurveys.cfm

where you will find both groups.  They were combined originally:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-statistics-schools/rankings/

m.p.


On 10/13/2010 4:57 PM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
> use http://web.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/stata/NRC-2010-StatRankings.dta , clear
>
> These rankings are even weirder than the econ rankings. There are
> some, but very few, biostat programs mentioned; however I could not
> find biostat among any other disciplines. Without Harvard or UNC
> Chapel Hill or Michigan Ann Arbor, one cannot have a complete picture
> of the biostat world. Neither the departments of mathematics that
> grant Ph.D.s in statistics are mentioned. And if there are any
> epidemiology or public health departments that publish and grant
> Ph.D.s in biostatistics, they are obviously omitted, as well.
>
> I wonder if Mr. President (aka Tony) would have any comments as to how
> it happened that biostat is nowhere to be found. I am sure that
> whoever decided to do half-samples to provide a sense of confidence
> intervals must have talked to statisticians first.
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