Links

Statistics at Vassar

  • Stats@Vassar – a resource for navigating the statistics courses at Vassar , and other general information about statistics
  • DataFest @ Vassar – a 48-hour data analysis competition

Discover the world of statistics

Opportunities in Statistics

General Resources

  • ASA page on careers in statistics
  • Read this article published 1/1/2017: ASA Early Career Profiles: Bachelor’s-Level Graduates in Statistics and Data Science – PDF
  • “Learn How to Become” Careers in Mathematics (which includes statistician) page

Lists of Summer Programs

Summer Program Websites (and some post-grade career opportunities, too)

Short Workshops

  • Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) hosts short (~2-day) workshops for undergraduates throughout the year (check this page for workshop announcements)

Publicly-available Data Sources

Have a link to add to this list? Please email me so I can add it!

Applets*

  • Mean and Median: link
  • Describing and Comparing Distributions: link
  • Correlation
    • Guess the correlation game: link (under “Data Analysis”)
  • Regression / Least Squares estimation
    • Draw your own “best fit” line AND guess the correlation here
  • Central Limit Theorem (and Sampling Distributions in general): link
  • Probability Distributions
    • Normal Approximation to Binomial: link
  • Confidence Intervals: link
  • Type I and II Errors (applet is at bottom of page): link

*Many of these applets come from the Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

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