This course is required by all Major and Honours students. Students will be involved in researching an area from the ground up. Given data, students will research the background of the data to determine what questions need to be answered. They will be engaged in learning about and choosing appropriate statistical methodologies to analyze the data. Students will then be able to extend the frontiers of knowledge about the area in question with their conclusions.
Statistics crosses cultural boundaries.
Thus, a graduate of the Statistics program is well prepared for employment in the global economy. In our courses, some sets of data studied are social statistics from other countries. Examples of such data are coal miner deaths in England, mortality rates in Denmark, or birth rates in a developing country. There are many students from other countries who study Statistics in our Department. There are many foreign-born scholars who instruct and conduct laboratories and tutorials.