"These statistical agencies are essential infrastructure," Nancy Potok said. "There are so many critical decisions made based ...

Let’s start with a definition of Applied Statistics: Applied Statistics is the root of data analysis. The practice of applied statistics involves analyzing data to help define and determine an ...

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 ...

The Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Data Science is the college’s newest major. The curriculum is designed to equip students to execute all stages of a data analysis, from data acquisition and ...

Sports statisticians analyze data pertaining to sporting events, usually for major sports such as baseball, football or basketball. Sometimes called a scorer, sports statisticians record data live as ...

Impactful research meets innovative educational programs in Statistics and Data Sciences, the college’s newest and fastest-growing department. Using novel statistics and machine learning methods to ...

News is coming out today that Hans Rosling (pictured above with his special extra-long pointer), global health expert, physician, statistician, development champion, TED lecturer, myth-buster, ...