Abstract
This chapter discusses the views of Lyle Calvin, Brian Joiner, and Gerald van Belle on the operation of statistical consulting programs and the philosophy behind these programs. Training can be provided by the proper mix of applied statistics courses, theoretical statistics courses, statistical computing courses, mathematics courses, courses in substantive areas, classroom consulting training, and consulting apprenticeship. Hands-on experience, as in Lyle Calvin's Statistics Student Consulting Service, in Gerald van Belle's Supervised Statistical Consulting course, or in Brian Joiner's consulting course at Wisconsin, will certainly be to the good; at Iowa State, such apprenticing happens to be realized through half-time or quarter-time research assistantships. Of those that are drawn to the graduate study of statistics in the first place, a good share will likely come with a thirst for reality and equipped with a sure homing instinct for the cores of consulting problems—an instinct for avoiding Lyle Calvin's errors of the third kind. They will also possess the taste for intellectual adventure, which has been underlined by many authors: sanguinity enough for two if need be and the predisposition to learn from each consulting session at least as much as the consultant.
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