Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics

The Department was originally formed in 1964 as the Department of Statistics and Computer Science and remained such until 1984. We have retained that strong emphasis on computing and maintain our own state-of-the-art computing network. In addition, we have maintained the three-fold mission of teaching, research, and service.

Our teaching has provided students with a broad foundation in statistical theory and applications. Such training has enabled our graduates to earn jobs in government, all branches of industry, and academia.

We currently maintain a wide spectrum of research, with many of our faculty active in cross-disciplinary research projects.

Colloquium Series

Ji Meng Loh

AT&T Labs Research

K-scan for anomaly detection in spatial point patterns

Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 3:30pm

We consider the problem of detecting hotspots in spatial point patterns observed over time while accounting for an inhomogeneous background intensity. For example, in disease surveillance, the interest is often in identifying regions of unusually high incidence rate given a background incidence rate that may be spatially varying due to underlying variation in population density, say. ...view full abstract

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News & Announcements

Christine Franklin featured in the May 2012 edition of the Amstat News

Monday, May 14, 2012

Our very own Christine Franklin was interviewed and featured in the Science Policy Column in the May edition of the Amstat News discussing her effort in rewriting the statistics standards portion of the Georgia Performance Standards for 6th-12th.

Friday, April 27, 2012

The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Lecturer or Instructor, starting August 2012. Preference will be given to strong applicants who qualify for the rank of Lecturer, which requires a Ph.D. in statistics or a closely related field. However, applicants with an M.S.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Yi Chen, with Merck in Philadelphia, PA; Haileab Hilafu, with Vistakon in Jacksonville, FL; Xinyu Liu, with Kelly Services & Dow AgroScience in Indianapolis, IN; Guannan Wang, with SAS in Cary, NC; Li-Yu Wang, with Zurich Insurance Co. in Schaumburg, IL; Wenbo Wu, with Kelly Services & Dow AgroScience in Indianapolis, IN; and Wenting Fan, with Liberty Mutual Insurance in Boston, MA.

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Spotlight

Cheolwoo Park

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Statistics, Seoul National University, 2002

Research Interests

Multiscale Analyis
Nonparametric Function Estimation
Statistical Learning

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