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Introduction: Anish Thomas writes: I was wondering if you could provide me with some guidance regarding statistical training. My background is in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, with an emphasis on Quantitative Psychology and currently working in the employee selection industry. I am considering pursuing a masters degree in Statistics. As l look through several program options, I am curious about the real difference between theoretical and applied Statistics. It would be very enlightening if you could shed some light on the difference. Specifically: 1. Is theoretical side more mathematically oriented (i.e., theorems and proofs) than applied? 2. Are the skills acquired in a ‘theoretical’ class difficult to transfer to the ‘applied’ side and vice versa? 3. I see theoretical statistics as the part that engages in developing the methods and applied statistics as pure application of the methods. Is this perception completely off base? My reply: 1. The difference between theoretic
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3 I am considering pursuing a masters degree in Statistics. [sent-3, score-0.402]
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12 Applied statistics includes development of methods as well. [sent-23, score-0.407]
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