Tag: Harvard Statistics Department

  • Nation & World

    Crossing the river of myths

    Grasp the right facts, said a renowned medical statistician, and the world is more complicated and interesting, with fewer myths that divide one region from another.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Award honors beloved mentor

    Students and faculty celebrated the inauguration of the Arthur P. Dempster Award. The award recognizes promising graduate students in the Statistics Department, especially those working in theoretical and foundational statistics.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Taking finance up the Red Line

    Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cochran at 100

    The Harvard Statistics Department marked the centennial birth year of one of its founding members, William Gemmell Cochran, with a symposium celebrating his landmark scholarship.

    7 minutes