Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statistics is the science of learning from data. The theoretical foundation of statistics lies in probability theory, which is applied to decision-making under uncertainty. Data science consists of ...

Being inundated with massive amounts of information can feel overwhelming, but knowledge of statistics allows people to distinguish essential facts from trivial details in order to make logical and ...

A statistics major prepares students to use data to confront real-world problems. Statistics is relevant to topics ranging from disease prevention to storm prediction, and learning how to collect and ...

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 ...

Many businesses rely on statistical analysis to organize collected information and predict future trends based on that data. While organizations have lots of options on what to do with their big data, ...

Our students become deft and able in data visualization, analysis and statistics, and apply these skills in a wide range of fields in business, engineering, public health and social justice. The ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...