Welcome to the Department of Statistics! We are a small department pursuing world class research and encouraging initiative and innovation in our students. Statistics is a challenging academic discipline, but the rewards of earning a statistics degree are well worth the effort.
Statistics provides the reasoning and the methods for producing, and understanding data; it is the science of learning from data. It includes designing experiments, or sampling surveys for the collection of data, collecting the information, evaluating it, drawing conclusions, and presenting the results. Statisticians work with people from a variety of professional backgrounds to solve practical problems. The demand for statisticians is rapidly growing in a very diverse area of fields.
We encourage independent thinking, hard work, and initiative in our students. Please take advantage of all of the opportunities our department and CSU have to offer. We are here to help you succeed!
Who Makes up the Statistics Department?
DEPARTMENT NEWS
In memory: Peter Brockwell
Peter Brockwell passed away peacefully on July 5 in Melbourne, surrounded by his family. He was a faculty member in the Statistics Department for several decades, until his retirement, including an appointment as the department chair.
Likelihood of another fire season as bad as 2020 up to 10 times higher than it was 50 years ago, CSU research shows
The 2020 wildfire season may have been the worst in Colorado’s history, but if recent climate trends hold true, years like this could become more and more common.
Statistics undergraduate summer research program culminates at CURC
For students studying statistics, undergraduate research is a valuable, hands-on chance to learn how to use statistics to support real research with real-world outcomes.
Washington County: Levi Kipp – Statistics
During the 2022-23 academic year, we are highlighting one Colorado State University student or alum from each of Colorado’s 64 counties. The Centennial State’s land grant university has a connection to the diverse lands and people from the counties of Moffat to Baca, Montezuma to Sedgwick and everywhere in between.
