About

What is statistics?

Statistics is the science of learning from data. No matter what you call them—statistician, financial analyst, market researcher, epidemiologist, actuary, survey researcher, data scientist—statisticians are a diverse group of people with one thing in common: they use statistics to draw valuable insights from data. With a career in statistics, you’re not limited by industry or geography. Work for a car company in Michigan, a high-tech company in Silicon Valley, a humanitarian organization in New York City, a government office in Washington DC, a pharmaceutical company in Europe or a business consultancy in India.

Programs

The Department of Statistics offers master's and Ph.D. programs in statistics, as well as a variety of undergraduate majors and minors, including a data analysis minor that may be completed without taking calculus.

Fields

Do you have a specific interest? Our faculty have specialties that include:

• Bayesian analysis
• Biostatistics
• Categorical data
• Linear and nonlinear models
• Multivariate data
• Nonparametric and rank-based analysis
• Spatial analysis and mapping
• Survival data
• Time series analysis