关于统计学中一个新兴化学分支学科的建立、定义和教育

本文追溯了统计学发展、建立中的大事, 陈述了它的定义及其化学分支发展、建立的梗概; 鉴于化学界对该新兴化学分支学科的名称长期存在争议, 提出了以化学统计学而不以化学计量学为该学科名称的理由, 把化学统计学定义为一个研究有关数据的收集或产生、描述、分析、综合和解释, 以获得新化学知识或信息的学科; 阐明了许多公认属于统计学的方法, 如显著性检验、方差分析、回归和相关, 以及一些尚未认定属于统计学的方法, 如模型建立、蒙特卡罗方法、傅立叶变换和人工神经网络, 都含有统计学5 个内涵中的一个或多个; 探讨了化学统计学家成长的模式, 认为当务之急是把化学统计学纳入化学专业的教学计划, 以培养懂统计学的化学家。

On the Establishment,Definition and Education of A New Branch of Chemistry in Statistics

Events contributing to the establishment of statisticsthe science of dataand its chemical branch are epitomized.As the new chemical branch named chemometrics or chemstatistics has been disputed in the circles of chemistry for a long time,reasons for adopting chemstatistics are given,which is defined as the science of gathering or generating,describing,summarizing and interpreting the data concerned to acquire new chemical knowledge or information.The fact that many traditional statistical methods,such as significance tests,analysis of variance,regression and correlation,and some others not usually considered statistical,such as model building,Monte Carlo method,Fourier transformation,artificial nerval networks and pattern recognition,each contains one or more of the five connotations of statistics is expounded.The regular pattern that a chemstatistician grows up is approached.The urgent task is to include chemstatistics in the undergraduate or graduate curriculum of chemistry specialty.The goal of