Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Social statistics is the branch of statistics devoted to the application and development of quantitative methods tailored to the social and human sciences. Focusing on human behaviour, social ...

The MSc in Statistics provides intensive training in statistics applicable to the social sciences, economics and finance. The aim of the programme is to foster an interest in theoretical and applied ...

If you enjoy working with numbers, you will love studying statistics. It is a broad area of study that involves much more than the organisation and display of data. Statistics involves the careful ...

THIS is a very practical treatise on the determination of the forces in braced structures, beams, masonry arches, and abutments. It is based on a course of instruction given at the Massachusetts ...

The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease. “We don’t have much ground truth in ...