Department of Statistics

This five-year, $1.8 million training program at the UW will fund 25 academic-year graduate fellowships, develop a new training curriculum and contribute to methodological advances in health research at the intersection of demography and data science.

Elena Erosheva (UW Professor of Statistics and Social Work) and Sheridan Grant (UW Statistics Ph.D. student) have co-authored with Carole Lee (UW Professor of Philosophy) a Correspondence featured on The Lancet on how “Alternative grant models might perpetuate Black–white funding gaps". 

Statistics and Sociology Professor Adrian Raftery is lead author on a guide to understanding COVID-19 data, for those making public health decisions.

In a paper published July 23 in Population and Development Review, Daphne Liu, a doctoral student in statistics at the UW, and Adrian Raftery, a UW professor of statistics and sociology, explore two nuanced questions: Is increasing contraceptive use or reducing demand more effective in family planning? And, is it the number of years girls attend school or the overall enrollment of children in school that makes education a factor in fertility?

The UW has been given $12.5M in federal funding to lead a cohort of institutions tackling foundational challenges in the field of data science.

The UW has received $12.5M of federal funding to lead a group of institutions tackling data science challenges.

Faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington are actively engaged in research related to COVID-19.  

Adrian Raftery, professor of statistics and sociology, explains how different sets of facts and figures about COVID-19 can paint different pictures of the pandemic.

The College honors four exceptional graduates representing eight Arts & Sciences majors.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic was the formative experience for many of the doctors leading the response to COVID-19. Martina Morris, professor emeritus of sociology and statistics, is referenced.

A UW app may be able to help slow the spread of coronavirus by tracking it's spread and alerting those who could help. Sham Kakade, professor of statistics at the UW, is interviewed.

Sham Kakade, associate professor of statistics, weighs in on​ Apple's and Google's bold plan using signals from smartphones to help stem the spread of COVID-19. 

Steve Goodreau, professor of anthropology, and Martina Morris, professor of sociology and of statistics, explain how visiting just one friend could undo the goal of social distancing.

Professors Steve Goodreau and Martina Morris explain how violating distancing measures, even in seemingly small ways, can put people at risk of contracting coronavirus.

Steve Goodreau, professor of anthropology at the UW, and Martina Morris, professor of sociology and of statistics, explain how forgoing social distancing can have disastrous effects.