[Is Industrial Statistics Out of Control?]: Rejoinder

Rejoinder: Citation Statistics

We would like to thank the discussants for reading our report and for their insightful and constructive comments. To start our brief response, we would like to quote Bernard Silverman’s phrase “reducing an assessment of an individual to a single number is both morally and professionally repugnant.” Bernard puts it strongly, but his underlying point, with which we strongly agree, is that “resear...

Is the university-industrial complex out of control?

[ Statistics , Probability and Chaos ] : Rejoinder ( Part 1 )

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Teaching Simulator for Industrial Statistics

Management games are well-established techniques for improving the understanding and appreciation of realistic problems. Flight Simulators, where students “fly” a particular aspect of an enterprise are particularly rewarding. The classic flight simulator is perhaps the Beer Game [1] which illustrates a simple production distribution system. It is usually played as an interactive board game wher...

Industrial paramedics, out on site but not out of mind.

INTRODUCTION Australian natural resource exploration and production companies are employing paramedics to provide emergency medical response, primary health care, injury prevention, and health promotion services in remote locations nationally and internationally. Although Australian paramedic practice has steadily evolved to include increasingly complex medical interventions in the prehospital ...