ST 790 Navigating the PhD program and beyond: perspectives, skills, and strategies
Link: Syllabus.
Link: Statistics faculty actively seeking new PhD advisees.
Lecture slides and resources
- Link: lecture slides.
- The story of sci-hub: website and Radiolab episode link.
- Role of simulation studies in statistics
Link: Morris (2018).
- Effective writing in statistics
Link: Marron (1999).
Assignments
- Homework 1: Identify one of the six "types of statistics research" that is of interest to you, and find one manuscript that fits within the type you idenified. In a .tex file, write a few sentences to justify your classification of the paper you found, and include a citation to the paper using a .bib file. Email me the compiled .pdf file from your .tex file.
Due: beginning of class on 3 September 2025