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David Vere-Jones's influence on statistical education

Part of:StatisticsHistory of mathematics and mathematicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips*
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology
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1 Postal address: School of Mathematical Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn Vic. 3122, Australia. Email: bphillips@swin.edu.au
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Abstract

David Vere-Jones's interest in mathematical and statistical education was triggered in the early 1960s during his visits to Russia when he met leading mathematicians who were deeply involved in these areas as well as in their own research. Through the 1970s and 1980s David's involvement in education grew in New Zealand where he became influential in the developments in mathematics and statistics teaching, especially at school level. By the early 1990s he had become very involved in the Education Committee of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and had a key role in the Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-3) in Dunedin, 1990. This was soon followed by the pivotal role he played in the establishment of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). This paper describes the formative influences underlying David's involvement in statistical education and his influence on the growth of the IASE.

Keywords

StatisticsmathematicseducationISIIASESoviet education systemdeveloping countriestechnologycurriculum

MSC classification

Primary:01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
Secondary:62-03: Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01)86-03: Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01)

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Type
Biography and education
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 38 , Issue A: Probability, Statistics and Seismology , 2001, pp. 6 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2001 

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References

Papers by David Vere-Jones as author or co-author

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[1967a] (WITH Cochrane, W.) Essays on Mathematical Education (translation of Essays by A. Ya. Khinchin, with a supplement on Soviet Mathematical Education). English Universities Press, London.Google Scholar
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[1982] Risk. In Statistics at Work , eds Gubbins, S., Rhoades, D. A. and Vere-Jones, D., New Zealand Statistical Association, Wellington, 43–55.Google Scholar
[1986a] On recent changes in the mathematics curriculum in New Zealand upper secondary schools. In Mathematics Education (Proc. Math. Education Session 15th Conf. Stoch. Proc. Appl.), eds Hida, T. and Shimizu, A., Department of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Japan, 35–57.Google Scholar
[1986b] Probability, earthquakes and travel abroad. In The Craft of Probability Modelling–A Collection of Personal Reminiscences , ed. Gani, J., Springer, New York, 222–235.Google Scholar
[1989] (WITH Begg, A. J. C.) Some emerging changes in statistics education in New Zealand schools. Bull. Internat. Statist. Inst. 53 (Book 2), 199–207; Discussion (Book 4), 158-166.Google Scholar
[1991a] (WITH Dawkins, B. and Carlisle, S. (eds)) Proc. 3rd Internat. Conf. Statist. Education (ICOTS-3) . ISI, Voorburg.Google Scholar
[1991b] (WITH Manly, B., Harraway, J. and Rayner, J.) A Handbook for Organising International Conferences on Teaching Statistics. University of Otago, Dunedin.Google Scholar
[1994] The IASE and problems of statistical education in developing countries. In Proc. 1st Sci. Conf. Internat. Assoc. Statist. Education , eds Brunelli, L. and Cichitelli, G., University of Perugia, Perugia, 429–441.Google Scholar
[1995] The coming of age of statistical education. Internat. Statist. Rev. 63, 3–23.Google Scholar
[1996a] Statistical education in the next 10 years: past perspectives and future prospects. N. Z. Statistician 31(1), 2–12.Google Scholar
[1996b] Statistical education: an international perspective (invited address to Science Council of Japan, translated into Japanese with English abstract). Proc. Inst. Statist. Math. (Japanese Series) 44(2), 263–274.Google Scholar
[1997] Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, 1912-1995: A personal tribute. Austral. J. Statist. 39, 121–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[1998] Background influences on the development of statistical education (invited plenary address). Proc. 5th Internat. Conf. on Teaching Statistics , Vol. 1, 27–42.Google Scholar
[2000a] Personal communication, March 2000.Google Scholar
[2000b] Personal communication, 15 June 2000.Google Scholar

Other references

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