Video Scenario 2: Defining roles and scope of work

For a statistician, negotiating one’s scope of work and role in a collaboration can lead to difficult conversations. This video presents a scenario portraying specific challenges that may arise when the project is the basis of a graduate student’s thesis or dissertation.

Keywords: Roles; expectations; repeated measurements; funding expectations; thesis or dissertation; graduate student research; active listening; teaching

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To cite the videos, scripts, and discussion questions, please use the following citation:

  • Sharp, J. L., Griffith, E., and Higgs, M. D. (2021). “Setting the stage: statistical collaboration videos for training the next generation of applied statisticians,” Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 29(2): 165-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2021.1934202

To cite this video, please use the text:

      • Sharp, J.L., Griffith, E., and Higgs, M. (2020). Defining roles and scope of work [Video file]. https://youtu.be/MgGvnyzxEXM.