Welcome to the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics & Political Science. The department enjoys a vibrant research environment and offers a comprehensive programme of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Statistics.

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Events

The Department of Statistics offers a comprehensive programme of seminars throughout the year, including the statistics seminars series, joint statistics and econometrics seminars and the London Mathematical Finance seminars. You can find further details here, along with an archive of our past seminars and details of workshops, conferences and other special events.

The Risk and Stochastics Conference 2013 takes place on 9 and 10 May 2013 in the Hong Kong Theatre. The confirmed speakers are Kerry Back, Alexander Cox, Albina Danilova, Paolo Guasoni, Iaonnis Karatzas, Gechun Liang, Mathieu Rosenbaum and Walter Schachermayer. Further details can be found here.

Research

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Research in Risk and Stochastics

The current members of the Risk and Stochastrics group are Pauline Barrieu, Erik Baurdoux, Umut Cetin, Angelos Dassios, Kostas Kardaras and Hao Xing.

Research in Social Statistics

The current members of the Social Statistics group are Wicher Bergsma, Sara Geneletti, Kostas Kalogeropoulos, Jouni Kuha, Irini Moustaki and Chris Skinner.

Research in Time Series

The current members of the Time Series group are Matteo Barigozzi, Piotr Fryzlewicz, Kostas Kalogeropoulos, Clifford Lam, Leonard Smith and Qiwei Yao

BSc Actuarial Science, BSc Business, Mathematics and Statistics, BSc Statistics with Finance

The department has three undergraduate degrees that involve the applications of statistics to the social sciences, and include a range of statistical and mathematical subjects.

MSc Statistics, MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics), MSc Risk and Stochastics

Our taught postgraduate courses are based around lectures, with problem classes and computer workshops. Most courses are assessed by a two-hour exam in the summer term although some contain an element of course work.

MPhil/PhD in Statistics

Research programmes are designed to produce professional social scientists, well versed in a range of advanced statistical techniques and methods, in addition to having an in-depth knowledge of a particular area.

Departmental orientation events 2013-14

BSc Business, Mathematics and Statistics and BSc Statistics with Finance
Orientation event date: Wednesday 2 October 2013
Start time: 10am
Venue: CLM.7.02 (Clement House)

BSc Actuarial Science
Orientation event date: Thursday 3 October 2013
Start time: 10am
Venue: STC.S75 (St Clements Building)

MSc Risk and Stochastics
Orientation event date: Monday 9 September 2013
Start time: 4.30pm
Venue: EAS 3.04 (East Building)

MSc Statistics and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics)
Orientation event date: Friday 4 October 2013
Start time: 10.30am
Venue: NAB 2.06 (New Academic Building)

MPhil/PhD Programme
Orientation event date: Tuesday 1 October 2013
Start time: 10am
Venue: COL 6.15 (Leverhulme Library, Columbia House)

General Course
Orientation event date: Friday 4 October 2013
Start time: 3pm
Venue: COL 6.15 (Leverhulme Library, Columbia House)

The latest edition of LSE's alumni magazine LSE Connect| features an article by Professor Chris Skinner| on Dealing with the data deluge. You can read the article here|.

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