Wharton Statistics Department

A key challenge facing business, government, and academia is how to effectively interpret the vast amount of data generated in the world today. Statistical models and techniques allow experts to draw inferences and make decisions under conditions of partial information and uncertainty.

Statistics Department faculty at Wharton, who serve as a resource for the entire university, are pushing traditional methodology beyond classical assumptions, models, and conditions. The department's strengths and activities focus on the interface of statistics and computer science, nonparametric function estimation, the design and analysis of observational studies, model selection, game theory, time series, the application of probability to the theory of algorithms, information theory, and survey sampling.