Professional Ethics for Statistical Practices
| Date | 12 Feb 2025 |
| Time | 20:00 - 21:30 in UTC |
| Presenter |
Walter J Radermacher
, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)
Ayse Bilgin
, Macquarie University (Australia)
Teresita Terán
, National University of Rosario (Argentina)
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Ethics play an important role in the practice of all professions. Professional ethics for statistics is application-oriented and committed to the goal of guiding statistical practitioners to act responsibly and to ensure the trustworthiness of statisticians and thus also of the statistics they produce. Nevertheless, this practice-orientated approach is based on scientific concepts from the sociology of quantification and the philosophy of sciences. This webinar is about how education in statistics and data science can be complemented by relevant components. Questions of ethics often relate to difficult situations and trade-offs; answers are rarely or never just black or white, do or do not. For this reason, no cookery book is presented whose recipes are simply to be followed. Rather, we will take a brief look at the theoretical basis as well as the existing guidelines and the issues of promotion and knowledge transfer.
Presenters
About the presenter
Biography:
Dr Walter J Radermacher was Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union from 2008 to 2016. He worked at Destatis, the German Federal Statistical Office, for 30 years, ultimately as its President. He was the first Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) from 2005 to 2008 and a member of OECD’s High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress from 2013 to 2018. Since 2023 he is the Vicepresident of FENStatS, the Federation of European National Statistical Societies, after having been its president since 2017. Since 2022, he is Chair of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics and (honorary) Professor at the Statistical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Walter Radermacher is Honorary Fellow 2023 of the Royal Statistical Society.
Book: Radermacher, Walter J. 2020. Official Statistics 4.0 - Verified Facts for People in the 21st Century (Springer Nature, Heidelberg)
About the presenter
Biography:
Prof Ayse Aysin Bilgin BEng., MBA, MMaths, PhD, PostGradDip HE (L&T), MHE (L&M)
Ayse works in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University. She is an elected member and incoming Vice President (2025-2029) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI); the Past-President (2023-2025 of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE); and Co-Chair of Statistical Education, Statistical Society of Australia (SSA). Ayse’s research explores applications of statistics in health sciences and learning and teaching in statistics. Ayse is an academic who uses her statistical knowledge to improve health and wellbeing as well as improving learning and teaching of statistics. Ayse was a recipient of several learning and teaching awards for her outstanding contributions to student learning. Internationally, her contributions to statistics education were recognised by a prestigious Juárez Lincoln Martí (JLM) Award for International Educator, for the 11th International Congress of Statistical Education (ICOTS-11).
About the presenter
Biography:
Teresita Terán is from Argentina. She has been a Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Statistics, National University of Rosario since 2000. Teresita is teaching research in statistics education doctoral academic consolidation program. She was awarded her doctoral thesis on the Meaning of the Confidence Intervals for College Students in 2006. Teresita was also a titular professor in biostatistics, Faculty of Veterinary Science and involved in post graduate courses of university education. She was appointed a Member of the Academic Committee of the Master of Food Safety Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. She has been involved in more than 15 investigation programs and more than 30 Post Graduate Courses. Teresita is currently doing PhD thesis reviews as a jury and participate in the doctoral and doctoral thesis management. She has presented papers approved by the Scientific Committees in Marrakech, Beijing, Seville, Nan Yyang, Helsinki, Florianopolis, Istanbul, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Camaguey, Maracaibo, Lisboan, Monterrey and Mexico DF, Durban, Santo Domingo, Lyubljana, among others. Teresita has numerous publications in refereed national and international scientific meetings held in the country and abroad. She is a member of the committee on Ethics of ISI, she had a Fulbright Scholarship for School Principals in Texas, 2008. Teresita was the president of the ICOTS 11 International Committee 2022, a VP on the executive committee of IASE 2017-2020, and she was the coordinator VPCT Portugal 2018.