The first of the Spring 2010 LISA Short Courses was “An Introduction to Statistical Analysis,” by Dr. Eric Vance, the director of LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis). We ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Statistics is the science of learning from data. The theoretical foundation of statistics lies in probability theory, which is applied to decision-making under uncertainty. Data science consists of ...

The Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Data Science is the college’s newest major. The curriculum is designed to equip students to execute all stages of a data analysis, from data acquisition and ...

Designed to introduce students to quantitative methods in a way that can be applied to all kinds of data in all kinds of situations, Statistics and Data Visualization Using R: The Art and Practice of ...