Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
Welcome New Graduate Students!
Ms STAT/BioSTAT Orientation Thursday Aug 15th 2024 @4:00PM
Welcome to the department
If you are a new and incoming MS student in the Statistic and Biostatistics program - this message is for you.
The department is hosting an orientation for all new Masters students in the program on Thursday, August 15th, at 4:00 pm. The orientation will be led by Prof. Joshua Kerr, our graduate advisor. This meeting will be in a hybrid format, if you are able, please join us on campus or on Zoom. If you are already in the program - you are welcome to join and meet the new students. Most of the information will be familiar to you though.
Please come to SC-S 213. The Zoom details are posted in Canvas. No RSVP is required.
We hope to see you all in person. This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow colleagues and ask your most pressing questions. We will also record the meeting
We had a blast at the 2nd Annual Data Fest!
The 2nd Annual Data Fest hosted by the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics - in partnership with the American Statistical Association (ASA) – was a success with over 45 students from different departments and Skyline community college. With some amazing mentorship and hard work, students learned data wrangling on an entirely different level.
DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduate & graduate students work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set.
A special shout out to Professor Eric Fox for leading the efforts in hosting the event.
Best in Show - Dan Hoang, Esther Ki and Gyubeen Park
Best Use of Statistical Analysis - Taylor Hansen, Huiting Wu, Matt Ko and Thao Tran
Best Visualization - Dongping Guo, Gurjas Singh, Peter Nguyen and Rohan Bierneni
Photos from Data Fest
PALiISaDS Scholarship - Apply NOW !
Application Deadline May 1st, 2023
We are proud to announce the formation of the Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALiISaDS), a new partnership supported by a $5,000,000 investment from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program.
We are recruiting our first cohort of:
- Rising Juniors/Transfer students
- Need-based scholarships of up to $10,000/year
- Third-year support for students continuing on to grad school
- Faculty & peer mentoring
- Community-building events
- Support for applying to graduate programs + career development advice
For more information visit www.paliisads.
Meet with Your Advisors
Statistics and Biostatistics majors are highly encouraged to meet with their Faculty and Major Advisor each semester. This is incredibly valuable time where you can get helpful suggestions and information regarding classes, research at East Bay (and other universities), and future career opportunities!
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Your Faculty or Major Advisor
Welcome Message From the Chair
On behalf of the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics here at CSU East Bay, I am writing this welcome message for any prospective student interested in a Statistics major, minor, or graduate degree. Our department is comprised of engaged faculty who strive for excellence in both teaching and research. Our programs are designed for a diverse student population with a diverse set of goals, whether it be to join the workforce or continue their education at the graduate level. We are excited to offer concentrations in Data Science in our newly redesigned undergraduate and graduate programs.
Dr. Ayona Chatterjee
Associate Professor & Chair
HISTORY
Founded in 1964, the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics has offered applied statistics and computing to our students for 7 decades. CSU East Bay is one of the most diverse universities in the United States. We have valued and admitted students with diverse backgrounds. We have also admitted many students transitioning into Statistics and Data Analysis careers. Our Department has always been at the forefront of software and computational methods for Data Analysis.
DATA AND SOFTWARE
- Open Source/Free Software Focus: R, RStudio, RStudio Cloud, R Notebooks, Markdown, SQL, Python, Julia, Jupyter Notebooks, Git and GitHub, Tableau, LibreOffice, Knime, Google CoLab, Google CoLab R
- Commercial Software Friendly: Microsoft Office Word, Excel (learn to sort, fliter, product pivot tables), PowerPoint, SAS, Mintab, SPSS (The university has licenses for the full versions of SAS and Minitab that permit student use on their own computers.)
- Open Data Focus: kaggle, data.world, DataSF, lyft BayWheels, Chicago Data Portal, NHANES, Airline On-Time Statistics
- OS: Windows, macOS, ask about Linux, BSD, and cloud computing
FREE LEARNING MATERIALS USED IN SOME CLASSES
Our library has many of the books we use in classes and as references available online.
- As a student you will have access to O'Reiley Safari books and Packt books. Both are available through the CSU East Bay Library Database A-Z.
- We also use online books from Bookdown, LeanPub, otexts, and LibreText. And papers available from many sources, such as jstor, arxiv, PeerJ.
- Students also have access to LinkedIn Learning.
STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS
- Join the professional groups started by our alumni
- TBA Students work on Covid-19 Data Hub
Contact Us
Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
- California State University, East Bay
- 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd
- North Science 229
- Hayward, CA 94542
- Phone: (510) 885-3435
- Fax: (510) 885-4714
- Email: statistics@csueastbay.edu