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The article presents the authors' perspectives on the paper by E. Brown and R. Kass concerning statistics education and practice in the U.S. They agree that it is essential for the field to take significant curriculum changes and additions to its content and focus of training to encourage students to become statisticians. They mentions the important of broadening the view of statistic education, incorporating real-world data analysis and skills in computing and data technologies.

The article presents the authors' comments on the paper by E. Brown and R. Kass concerning statistics education and practice in the U.S. They contend that Brown and Kass presented a challenge for statisticians to rethink the approach to statistical training and statistical research. They remark that the challenge for a change in the statistic discipline is to build from bottom up to embed the development of cross-disciplinary expertise.

The article presents the authors' comment on the paper by E. Brown and R. Kass concerning statistics education and practice in the U.S. They contend that the recommendations by Brown and Kass for changes on interdisciplinary training of statisticians, graduate programs and curricula are potentially perilous and maybe counterproductive. They also note on the lack funding enough to support the changes recommended by Brown and Kass.

The article presents the authors' comment on the paper by E. Brown and R. Kass concerning statistics education and practice in the U.S. They agree that the discipline needs some changes, in particular the unappealing and outdated introductory undergraduate course and graduate programs. They remark that statistics faculty recruiting also provides an opportunity to effect interdisciplinary change that Brown and Kass suggested.