Ten Statistical Ideas That Changed the World

In this collection of videos, Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani interview authors of seminal papers in the field of statistics. This project was part of Stanford's STATS 319 class held in Winter Quarter of 2024.

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News & Announcements

Weijie Su honored with 2026 COPSS Presidents' Award

Stanford Statistics is proud to announce that our alum Weijie Su (PhD, 2016) has received the 2026 Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Tijana Zrnic returns as Assistant Professor in January

Tijana will conclude her most recent appointment as Ram and Vijay Shriram Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Emmanuel J. Candès and return from the winter holidays as our newest Assistant Professor of Statistics with a joint appointment in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E). She received her Ph.D.

Guenther Walther appointed John A. Overdeck Professor

Statistics is proud to announce this new recognition of our fantastic colleague, the highest academic award that Stanford bestows on a faculty member.
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Upcoming Seminars & Events

March
9

  4:00pm
  Sequoia 200
  Dominik Schmid, University of Augsburg
March
10

  4:00pm
  CoDa E160
  Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford Genetics
March
16

  4:00pm
  Sequoia 200
  Leonid Petrov, University of Virginia
March
30

  4:00pm
  Sequoia 200
  Amol Aggarwal, Stanford Math
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Industrial Affiliates Program

Our IA Program develops practical relationships between the department and the industrial community by creating opportunities for scientists, engineers, and developers from high-profile businesses to meet with our graduate students and share research topics in an informal setting. The annual conference for members, faculty, and final-year PhD candidates is a highlight event in our academic calendar!

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Department Technical Reports

The entire collection of Tech Reports issued by the Statistics Department — since 1949 — is available in PDF format. Browse the Archive in date order or search by Author, Year, Series, or Title keyword: advance your research or just discover something interesting every time!