Welcome to the
Department of Statistical Sciences
at Wake Forest University
Mission Statement: The mission of the Department of Statistical Sciences is to educate students to become leaders and advocates for sound statistical reasoning, and to improve our society through innovative statistical and interdisciplinary research. To succeed in this mission, the Department will:
- Offer a premier undergraduate educational experience to Statistics, Applied Statistics and Mathematical Business majors, preparing each for successful careers as well as further graduate study.
- Offer a personalized Master’s program in Statistics, creating pathways into the field and opportunities for mentored research.
- Contribute to the advancement of the statistical sciences through peer-reviewed research and scientific collaborations across disciplines.
- Support the wider Wake Forest community with high quality general statistics education offerings.
- Colloquium: Statistical considerations in assessing prescribing practices: an application to the child welfare systemJoin us next Tuesday, February 25 for our next invited speaker of the semester! Dr. Rameela Raman will be presenting virtually at 11 AM through Zoom. Dr. Rameela Raman is an Associate professor of Biostatistics and Nursing at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in […]
- Colloquium: Distributed Bayesian Inference for Big Survival DataDr. Ray Bai will be presenting at 11 AM in the Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Auditorium, Room 404. Dr. Ray Bai is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of South Carolina. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Florida in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Malay Ghosh. He then completed a two-year […]
- Colloquium: The mechanistic analysis of founder virus data in challenge modelsDr. Ana Maria Ortega-Villa will be presenting at 11 AM in the Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Auditorium, Room 404. Dr. Ana M. Ortega-Villa joined the Biostatistics Research Branch (BRB) in 2018 and serves as a mathematical statistician. Prior to joining the BRB, Dr. Ortega-Villa obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech and completed post-doctoral […]
- COLLOQUIUM: Impact of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Frailty through the Lens of Deficit Accumulation in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes MellitusDr. Felicia Simpson, Chair, Associate Professor of Statistics Winston-Salem State UniversityImpact of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Frailty through the Lens of Deficit Accumulation in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus October 29, 11 AM in the Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Auditorium, Room 404. Background: Type 2 diabetes and obesity increase accumulation of health deficits over […]
- Colloquium: Optimal Dynamic Treatment Rule Estimation and Evaluation with Application to Criminal Justice Interventions in the United StatesDr. Lina Montoya, Assistant ProfessorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 22 Oct. 11AM, ZSR Auditorium (Room 404) After collecting trial data, i t may be of interest to understand treatmenteffect heterogeneity, i.e., answer the question: which treatment works best for whom? The optimal dynamic treatment rule (ODTR) framework offers an approach for understanding which […]