Significant changes, effective Fall 1999, have been made in the requirements for the PhD. Content and numbering of some courses have been changed and new courses added. Students planning a career in teaching or research should work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This requires at least three, but more usually four to five, years of full-time graduate work, predicated upon substantial undergraduate mathematical preparation.
Research is an important part of the work of doctoral candidates.
The philosophy of the Department is that its Ph.D. graduates should be broadly based in statistical theory and practice, and at the same time be able to conduct basic research in some special area of mathematical statistics or probability theory. The program's strength has been a balanced development of statistical inference based on modern probability while also addressing important problems in applied areas, with the aim of providing solid foundations for basic research, for teaching, and for statistical applications. A minimum of 3 dissertation credits is required for graduation. Estimation, Hypothesis Testing,and Statistical Decision Stat 221. Sequential Analysis Stat 222.