Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics is data analysis. New kinds of data are emerging all the time in science and industry. Statisticians are needed to set up cutting edge statistical methods to analyse these data. Statistical methods use advanced mathematical ideas and modern computational techniques. They require expert knowledge and experience to apply. Statisticians do the work. This combination, of deep and mathematically well-grounded method building, and wide-ranging applied work with data, is what makes statistics a great subject.

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The Department of Statistics at Oxford is a world leader in research including computational statistics and statistical methodology, probability, bioinformatics and mathematical genetics. This is reflected in the lecture courses available to undergraduates in their third and fourth years.

The typical week of a student in Mathematics and Statistics is similar to that for Mathematics. In courses involving work with statistical software packages, some lecture hours are replaced by teaching sessions in the labs.

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Faculties websites:

www.maths.ox.ac.uk

www.stats.ox.ac.uk

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