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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> | ''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> | ||
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| ===<center>''Why should you earn a Statistics Concentration?''</center><br>=== | ===<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.slate.com/id/2130328/ Learn Statistics. Go Abroad.]</center><br>==== | ||
| - | ====<center>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/ | + | ====<center>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/whatdostatisticiansdo.cfm What statisticians do]</center><br><br>==== |
| ===<center>''How do you get started?''</center><br>=== | ===<center>''How do you get started?''</center><br>=== | ||
| - | ====<center>[ | + | ====<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>==== | ====<center>[http://www.stolaf.edu/catalog/academicprogram/statistics.html Information about the statistics concentration] </center><br><br>==== | ||
| - | ===<center>Ready to add a concentration in statistics? Complete this | + | ===<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>=== | ||
| + | ===<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> | ||
| + | <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> | ||
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I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
--Mrs. Robert A. Taft
--Mrs. Robert A. Taft
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
Lynne Rebecca Peeples, '02
Major(s): Math
Concentration(s): Statistics
Job or student Title: Grad Student/Research Analyst
Company or School: Harvard
Is willing to be contacted: Yes
Lynne graduated from St. Olaf with a mathematics major and a statistics concentration in 2002. She earned a Masters in Biostatistics at Harvard in 2004.
Advice from this graduate:Get as much practical experience as you can; and if grad school is in your future, it is helpful to have a good idea of what your long-term goals are before deciding on a program.