A Guide to Statistics Outside Duke
Like most disciplines, several organizations exist to inform and coordinate the statistical community. The web sites of these organizations are usually filled with information on careers in statistics, upcoming statistical meetings and conferences, statistical journals, and links to statistical sites on the web. Here are links to a few of these organizations:
Statistics in Government
Government needs accurate data on the U.S. to function well, and many federal statistical agencies exist to meet this demand. Most of these agencies have web sites with lots of neat stuff. Here are links to a few federal statistical agencies:
Several statistical consulting groups maintain interesting web sites. The groups often consult on large federal surveys and post links to reports of their studies. Check out the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in Research Triangle Park and the RAND Statistics Group in Santa Monica, CA, as examples.
Statistics at Other Universities and Colleges
In many universities or colleges, statistics departments are combined with or contained in mathematics departments. At Duke, we have a distinct statistics department with its own major and minor in statistical science ( click here for statistics at Duke). Here are some links to statistics at other schools:
Here are some useful links to the statistical world. In addition to the links above, these are good starting places for surfing the statistical web.