What Industry Can Do for Statistics

Statistics and statisticians have contributed to industry.Attention has been given to the appropriate training of statisticians for careers in industry.Statistics is used with benefit to industry in quality control, experimental design in research and development, and management decisions.Statistics can benefit from industry's assistance, the subject of this article.Five premises are set forth, three of them suggesting problems for statistics and industry.They relate to public understanding of statistics, the recruitment of students to statistics, the recruitment of statisticians to industry, and the relevance of research in statistics to the needs of industry.Thirteen recommendations are made on what industry can do for statistics and suggestions are made on how the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality Control can provide leadership in meeting the problems posed with the help of industry.