College of Science

Department of Statistics

• Department of Statistics
• Purdue University
• 250 N. University Street
• West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066
• USA
• Phone: 1-765-494-6030
• FAX : 1-765-494-0558

News and Events

• Announcements
  • AVAILABLE FACULTY POSITIONS
  The following courses will be offered in Spring 2009. Information will be updated as it becomes available.
  • STAT 598F Financial Modeling with Jump Processes, JOSE FIGUEROA-LOPEZ, TTH 12:00-1:15 PM
  • STAT 598H Modern Applied Statistics, HAO ZHANG, TTH 1:30-2:45 PM
  • STAT 598K Applied Survival Analysis, DABAO ZHANG, TTH 3:00-4:15 PM
  • STAT 598M Data Mining (CS 573D), JENNIFER NEVILLE, TTH 12:00-1:15 PM
  • STAT 598N Statistics in Systems Biology, ALAN QI, 12:00-1:15 PM
  • STAT 598R Statistical Methods for Association Mapping, MIN ZHANG, TTH 10:30-11:45 AM
  • STAT 598Z Concepts in Computing with Data, MARK WARD, MWF 9:30 AM
  • STAT 695E Statistical Model Building, WILLIAM CLEVELAND, TTH 1:30-2:45 PM
  • STAT 695K Malliavin Calculus II, FREDERI VIENS, M 7:00-9:50 AM

• Departmental News
  • Gundlach Inducted into Purdue's Teaching Academy
  • Ruberg Appointed to AHIC Successor, Inc. Board of Directors
  • Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Program Honor Outstanding Alumni
  • Andrea Rau and Doug Baumann Appointed Members of ASA Committee on Student Pro Bono Statistics
  • Welcome New Faculty, Visitors, and Students
  • Congratulations August 2008 Graduates!
  • Alumni and Friends Gather at Joint Statistical Meetings
  • Bock Selected to Serve on NISS Board of Trustees
  • Doerge Appointed Interim Head for 2008 - 2009
  • STATCOM Network Newsletter Highlights Student Pro Bono Community Work
  • Viens Earns Promotion in 2008
  • McCabe Appointed to Institute of Medicine Committee
  • New Feature: Student Profiles
  • Si Granted CAREER Award
  • Vitek Awarded Purdue's Teaching for Tomorrow Award
  • Neville in AI's 10 to Watch

• Press Releases

Honoring Professor Herman Rubin

Professor Herman Rubin was officially presented with a volume of works written in his honor on Thursday, October 21, 2004, at an award ceremony in the MATH Library Lounge on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. The presenter, Dean Jeffrey Vitter, School of Science, and the editor of the volume, Professor Anirban DasGupta, were introduced by Mary Ellen Bock, Head of the Department of Statistics. The volume is titled "A Festschrift for Herman Rubin", Editor Anirban DasGupta, Volume 45, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Lecture Notes and Monograph Series, Beachwood, OH, 2004. Also introduced at the ceremony was Professor Larry Brown, University of Pennsylvania, who later gave a Mathematical Statistics lecture in Professor Rubin's honor.

Statistics at Purdue

Our commitment to core areas of research in Mathematical, Methodological, and Applied Statistics, and Probability supports and enhances our focus areas of research in:

• Bioinformatics - Our work in this area started in 1995. Interdisciplinary collaborations with agronomists, biologists, and computer scientists are essential components.
• Climate Change and Computational Science - statistical models of Climate Change; long term collaborations with Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
• Computational Finance - Cutting edge investment science; collaborations with Computer Science, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Management, and Mathematics.
• Mining, Learning, Networking, Visualization and Massive Data - Statistics and Computer Science are natural partners today, and bringing together knowledge from the two disciplines holds great promise for the future of learning from data.
• Science Education - foundation developed by distinguished Professor for the scholarship of teaching.

Our STATCOM program is a community service program directed and staffed by graduate students in the Department. The Department's Statisical Consulting Service offers free statistical software and design consultations to University researchers. Students and staff participate in Purdue's Technical Assistance Program (TAP) which helps Indiana's businesses and industries implement new technologies.

All of our work is supported by our state of the art facilities enabling our faculty, staff and students to realize their full potential.