Understanding statistics is a crucial skill in today's data-heavy world. A minor in statistics can complement almost any major, from anthropology to sports management. In the statistics minor, you'll ...

Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the famous remark: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ In every industry, from education to healthcare to travel, the ...

People talk about lying with statistics all the time. People talk about lies, damn lies, and statistics. All this talk makes it so that many people distrust statistics simply out of the gate. As ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

Originally published by Max Roser at Our World in Data. Republished here under a Creative Commons license. It’s tempting to believe that we can simply rely on personal experience to develop our ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

People talk about lying with statistics all the time. People talk about lies, damn lies, and statistics. All this talk makes it so that many people distrust statistics simply out of the gate. As ...