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CAREERS IN STATISTICS

A brochure about careers in Statistics can be downloaded here. The document consists of 12 pages of valuable information (in PDF format) about all aspects of a career in statistics. The following topics are covered in this document:


A condensed version of the brochure is available here.

For more information, contact the SASA executive committee member responsible for the young statisticians network at Dr. Humphrey Brydon


BILINGUAL DICTIONARY

Preface from the Editors


The list of statistical terms currently consists of approximately 7200 entries. Although the list is continuously updated, the editors have decided to make the list available in its current form to statisticians, members of the public using statistics, translators or any other interested parties. Therefore we were of the opinion that placing the list on the Internet would be most sensible for this purpose. Recognition is hereby given to the National Language Service,of the former Department of Art, Culture, Science and Technology, having provided editorial support over many years in the person of Dea Swiegers. We also wish to express our appreciation for the valuable contribution made by John Lynch up to his withdrawal in 2005 due to health reasons. Without their assistance we would have experienced difficulty in reaching this milepost.

In using this list of terms the following should be kept in mind:

Voorwoordvan die Redaksie


Die lys van statistiese terme bestaan tans uit nagenoeg 7100 inskrywings. Hoewel die lys voortdurend bygewerk word, het die redaksie besluit om die lys in die huidige vorm beskikbaar te stel aan statistici, lede van die publiek wat statistiek gebruik, vertalers of sommer enige ander belangstellendes. Daarom het ons geoordeel dat die plasing op die Internet vir hierdie doel die sinvolste gaan wees. Erkenning word hiermee verleen aan die Nasionale Taaldiens,se voormalige Departement Kuns, Kultuur, Wetenskap en Tegnologie, wat jare lank redaksionele ondersteuning verskaf het in die persoon van Dea Swiegers. Ook spreek ons groot waardering uit vir die waardevolle bydrae wat John Lynch gemaak het tot met sy uittrede in 2005 weens gesondheidsredes. Sonder hulle hulp sou ons moeilik hierdie mylpaal kon bereik.

By die gebruik van die termlys moet die volgende in gedagte gehou word:



http://www.cbs.nl/isi


References



Any comment on terms will be appreciated, as will be proposals for new terms which have not yet been included. Send these to:

Dr M D Jankowitz

Department of Decision Sciences

P O Box 392

Unisa

0003

Tel: +27(0)12-433-4731

Email: jankomd@unisa.ac.za 

Enige kommentaar oor terme sal waardeer word, so ook voorstelle van nuwe terme wat nog nie opgeneem is nie. Stuur dit aan:

Dr M D Jankowitz

Departement Besluitkunde

Posbus 392

Unisa

0003

Tel: +27(0)12-433-4731

E-pos: jankomd@unisa.ac.za 

GLOSARIO - A Multilingual Glossary Package

glosario is an ever growing open source glossary of terms that are often used in statistics and data science. This glossary includes English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa (still under development) and isiZulu (still under development) and is available online and also as a library in both R and Python. 

This is a great resource for South African students and is available at  https://carpentries.github.io/glosario/

Contributions can also be made to help grow definitions, particularly under represented languages (such as isiXhosa and isiZulu), as follows: https://github.com/carpentries/glosario/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.