Category: Education
Fortune Magazine: Bachelor’s Degrees in Statistics Soaring
February 11, 2015
More people are recognizing the growing interest in statistics education and careers, including Fortune magazine, which recently ran an article titled “Move over, computer science. Bachelor’s degrees in statistics have soared 95% since 2010.” The article cites data from the National Center for Education Statistics showing that the number of undergraduate students getting a degree in...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reports on Growth in Undergraduate Statistics Degrees
February 03, 2015
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette today reported on data released by the American Statistical Association showing that statistics is the fastest-growing STEM degree. “[The American Statistical Association’s] analysis of federal education data says statistics since 2010 has been the fastest-growing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the nation, outpacing all other computer-related disciplines, environment and...
Three Professors Explain How Statistical Science is More Than Numbers
October 23, 2014
Terry Speed, professor of bioinformatics at U.C. Berkeley, makes a strong case along with two other professors about why students should learn statistics. Speed points out that statistical science is applied to just about every sector—from agriculture and healthcare to manufacturing and technology. “It seems evident that statistics pervades every field of human endeavor, either...
It’s Never Too Early to Study Statistics
August 22, 2014
We’re living in an age in which data has become more available and more important to industry and society, yet our ability as a population to analyze data is not keeping up, writes Jonathan Wai, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University. He quotes a vice president at Facebook, Elliot Schrage, who said statistics will...
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