Good Luck, AP Statistics Students!
May 14, 2019
April showers bring May flowers—and if you are a high school student, Advanced Placement (AP) exams. This month, AP Statistics students around the country will take their exam, setting them on a course for one...
Mike Baiocchi: Stats for Better World Health
April 25, 2019
For Mike Baiocchi, an assistant professor at Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University, statistics is an important part of improving health care. Mike studies causal inference and uses statistics to determine if certain humanitarian intervention efforts, like...
Statsketball 2019: Congratulations to our Winners!
April 22, 2019
In the 2019 Statsketball contest, students competed to predict the outcomes of both the 2019 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments using the power of statistics – the science of learning from data. This is...
Kelsey Warsinske: Why Statistics is the ‘Sexy Major’
April 4, 2019
Statisticians are passionate about what they do, and for Kelsey Warsinske, a data scientist at a Silicon Valley tech company, she’s always been encouraged to learn about statistics. Very early on, Kelsey was encouraged to...
Celebrating Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
April 2, 2019
It’s finally April, which can only mean one thing… Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM) is here! The effort began in 1986 as Mathematics Awareness Week, as proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan. Since then, Mathematics...