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| - | + | ''Tell your students to go into stats. The market is short on well-rounded statisticians with good business and management skills. Demand for this unique skill set is only going to grow.'' <br> | |
| + | <center> -Thad Hellman '98</center> | ||
| + | ===<center>''Why should you earn a Statistics Concentration?''</center><br>=== | ||
| + | ===<center>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html NYT touts Statistics careers]</center><br>=== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://www.slate.com/id/2130328/ Learn Statistics. Go Abroad.]</center><br>==== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/whatdostatisticiansdo.cfm What statisticians do]</center><br><br>==== | ||
| + | ===<center>''How do you get started?''</center><br>=== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://devel.cs.stolaf.edu/projects/mscs-web/wiki/images/thumb/6/69/Statistics_Course_Flowchart2.jpg/397px-Statistics_Course_Flowchart2.jpg Which statistics course should you take?]</center> <br><br>==== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://www.stolaf.edu/catalog/academicprogram/statistics.html Information about the statistics concentration] </center><br><br>==== | ||
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| + | ===<center>Ready to add a concentration in statistics? Complete this [https://spreadsheets0.google.com/a/stolaf.edu/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDkwSnczQzlxS0ttRGtLUGQ5VkxnWEE6MQ#gid=0 form], drop by to visit a statistics professor to discuss your plans. Declare your concentration officially at the Registrar's. </center><br>=== | ||
| + | ===Find out about Stat Grad School from the Grads themselves... This series of articles is being organized by an Ole and many of the graduate student authors are Oles.[http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/10/01/adviceforstatstudents/ Check it out!]<br>=== | ||
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| + | ===<center>''St. Olaf Stat Grads News''</center><br>=== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://www.stat.purdue.edu/news/rau-baumann-asa-committee.html Pro Bono Work at Purdue]</center><br>==== | ||
| + | ====<center>[http://www.stat.purdue.edu/news/achberger_baumann_receive_distance_education_incentive_award.html Get Awards]</center><br>==== | ||
| + | ====<center>[https://docs.google.com/a/stolaf.edu/fileview?id=0B4SmMwL-d5pnMmU4ZDIwODctMzU0Yy00MDRjLTlhYzYtOTNjODNmMTFkNjY1&hl=en Look for Ole Anna Ericksen Peterson on pg. 5… and Ole Steve Lund on page 9 … in the fields of Iowa at Iowa State.] </center><br>==== | ||
| + | <center>[http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Nicole_Carnegie Nicole Bohme Carnegie]</center><br> | ||
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| + | <center>[http://www.stat.colostate.edu/seminars/20100423.html Kelly McConville Seminar at CSU]</center><br> | ||
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| + | <h3>Considering Grad School in Statistics or Biostatistics? [http://www.amstat.org/outreach/departmentsurveys.cfm Check this out.]</h3><br><br> | ||
| ==<center>Summer Opportunities</center><br>== | ==<center>Summer Opportunities</center><br>== | ||
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| - | ====<center>[http://www.slate.com/id/2130328/ Learn Statistics. Go Abroad.]</center><br>==== | ||
| - | ====<center>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=main What statisticians do]</center><br><br>==== | ||
| - | ===<center>''How do you get started?''</center><br>=== | ||
| - | ====<center>[[First_Statistics_Course|Which statistics course should you take?]]</center> <br><br>==== | ||
| - | ====<center>[http://www.stolaf.edu/catalog/academicprogram/statistics.html Information about the statistics concentration] </center><br><br>==== | ||
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To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weight evidence, to discern true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
--–Martin Luther King, Jr.
--–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tell your students to go into stats. The market is short on well-rounded statisticians with good business and management skills. Demand for this unique skill set is only going to grow.
Why should you earn a Statistics Concentration?
NYT touts Statistics careers
Learn Statistics. Go Abroad.
What statisticians do
How do you get started?
Which statistics course should you take?
Information about the statistics concentration
Ready to add a concentration in statistics? Complete this form, drop by to visit a statistics professor to discuss your plans. Declare your concentration officially at the Registrar's.
Find out about Stat Grad School from the Grads themselves... This series of articles is being organized by an Ole and many of the graduate student authors are Oles.Check it out!
St. Olaf Stat Grads News
Pro Bono Work at Purdue
Get Awards
Look for Ole Anna Ericksen Peterson on pg. 5… and Ole Steve Lund on page 9 … in the fields of Iowa at Iowa State.
Considering Grad School in Statistics or Biostatistics? Check this out.
Summer Opportunities
Interdisciplinary Research and Computing
Summer Opportunities in Biostatistics
Boston
Atlanta
Iowa
North Carolina
Pittsburgh
South Florida
St. Louis
Madison, WI
Mayo Biostatistics Internships
Statistics Program News
Christine N Kohnen, '00
Major(s): Math
Concentration(s): Statistics, Financial Management
Job or student Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics
Company or School: St. Olaf College
Is willing to be contacted: No
Christine graduated from St. Olaf with a mathematics major and concentrations in statistics and financial management in 2000. At Duke University, she earned a Masters of Science in Statistics in 2002, and a Doctorate in Statistics in 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at St. Olaf.
Advice from this graduate:Statistics is a flexible field and is useful in so many areas, so pick something that interests you and focus on that; you can always change your mind later.