Amol Kapila » Statistics http://www.amolkapila.com/blog A venue for my thoughts Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 US News Rankings for Statistics Departments http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2010/04/us-news-rankings-for-statistics-departments/ http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2010/04/us-news-rankings-for-statistics-departments/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:44:11 +0000 Amol Kapila http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2010/04/us-news-rankings-for-statistics-departments/ You can find the latest rankings for biostatistics/statistics departments here.  The University of Washington Biostat department placed 3rd overall, while UW Stat placed 6th.  However, if you restrict the list to statistics departments only (taking biostat departments out of contention), UW Stat is 3rd, behind only Stanford and Berkeley.  Out of the biostat departments, UW [...]]]> You can find the latest rankings for biostatistics/statistics departments here.  The University of Washington Biostat department placed 3rd overall, while UW Stat placed 6th.  However, if you restrict the list to statistics departments only (taking biostat departments out of contention), UW Stat is 3rd, behind only Stanford and Berkeley.  Out of the biostat departments, UW is tied with Harvard for 1st place.  Of course, we should take such rankings with many grains of salt, but I can’t say that these rankings aren’t good news.

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]]> http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2010/04/us-news-rankings-for-statistics-departments/feed/ 106 Statisticians in Increasing Demand http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2009/08/statisticians-in-increasing-demand/ http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/2009/08/statisticians-in-increasing-demand/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:58:55 +0000 Amol Kapila http://www.amolkapila.com/blog/?p=3 The New York Times had an article yesterday about the increasing value of statisticians in the world.  It seems as though I chose the right field!  Hat tip: Chris.

More about this from Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google and professor at Berkeley.

]]> The New York Times had an article yesterday about the increasing value of statisticians in the world.  It seems as though I chose the right field!  Hat tip: Chris.

More about this from Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google and professor at Berkeley.

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