About the Department

The OSU Statistics Department was founded in 1957, having grown out of a statistical consulting unit in the College of Agriculture.  Today, the Department resides in both the College of Science and the College of Agricultural Sciences and has strong ties to many research departments at Oregon State University as well as to the Corvallis branch of the Environmental Protection Agency. There are 11 regular faculty members and about 40 graduate students.  The Department’s missions are to train graduate students in the theory and practice of statistics, with particular emphasis on those aspects that are central to practical applications; to engage in research and other scholarly activities that will expand knowledge in or promote the proper use of statistical methodology; and to provide statistical service to other university units via collaboration, consulting, and training.  A particular emphasis of applied training is in environmental statistics.

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