Jobs at the MS level in Statistics are interesting and involve important work .
Statistics is the science of data collection and analysis.
Such a study includes preclinical and clinical experiments and the statistician will be involved in the design and analysis of these experiments. The FDA employs their own statisticians who review the analyses performed by the pharmaceutical company. A statistician employed in the banking industry may be involved with a group of quantitative and business people developing procedures for risk analysis of credit card users. They may be developing data mining techniques for exploring large data bases of financial records. A statistician employed by the automotive industry may be involved in design of experiments for developing more efficient gasoline engines.