It is an explosive time for statistics with no shortage of new and novel data types in need of theoretical and applied study.
Statisticians are interpreters of the vast accumulation of facts and figures available today.
Statisticians, as experts, have virtually unlimited opportunities. Monitoring the environment, developing new vaccines, making more reliable products, growing crops more efficiently, and setting insurance rates are just some endeavors in which statisticians have had a significant impact. The success of Statistics at Kansas State is directly linked to its graduate program. The discipline of statistics has been changing rapidly, particulary within the last ten years, where imaginative use of computing power and computational environments have driven much of the current research. Maintaining a successful and active graduate program has required the faculty to aggressively incorporate the trends of modern statistics in all aspects of their careers.