Doctor of Philosophy in Statistical Science
- Fall January 10
- Spring August 10
- Pullman: Yes
- 600 TOEFL Minimum Score
- 100 TOEFLI Minimum Score
- 7 IELTS Minimum Score
Degree Description:
The PhD in Statistical Science is meant to give students both a strong background in statistics and a working knowledge in a secondary field. Applicants are expected to have a B.S. in statistics, mathematics, or a similar field with courses taken in probability theory and mathematical statistics/statistical theory. Core and elective statistics classes offered through the Department of Mathematics & Statistics are taken in addition to classes from a partnering allied department, such as Biology, Economics, Education, Mathematics, or Psychology. At least one member of the student’s committee is encouraged to be from the appropriate allied department in the student’s field of research. This creates an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to teach students to develop new statistical methods to solve real life problems that arise in their chosen area of concentration. Statistical Science will be offered as a PhD program to incoming students starting Fall 2018. The departmental Graduate Handbook is currently being updated to reflect this new degree.
Core Statistics Courses:
Stat 548 Statistical Theory I (Advanced Probability)
Stat 549 Statistical Theory II (Advanced Inference)
Stat 536 Statistical Computing
Stat 533 Theory of Linear Models
Stat 574 Linear and Non-linear Mixed Models
Stat 575 Theory of Multivariate Analysis
Admission Requirements:
Prerequisites for admission include courses in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Computer Programming, and Statistical Methods. Analysis and Advanced Linear Algebra is recommended, as well as additional statistics classes. The GRE is not required, but encouraged.
Student Learning Outcomes:
A student completing this degree will:
1. Develop knowledge of advanced statistical theory and statistical methodology.
2. Gain understanding of statistical analysis and its applications to a relevant field.
3. Be familiar with statistical computing and commonly used statistical software such as R, S-PLUS, SAS, and data management programs.
4. Be able to apply statistical knowledge to real life problems effectively and ethically, understanding the theoretical assumptions and practical limitations of the methodologies applied.
5. Communicate effectively the principles and methods of statistical science in both written and oral forms.
6. Be prepared to conduct independent research in statistical sciences with a focus on interdisciplinary research.
Faculty Members:
(Bennethum), Lynn Schreyer
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Deterministic Modeling, PDEs, Continuum Mechanics
Asaki, Thomas James, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematical modeling, mathematical biology, numerical partial differential equations, computational biofluids.
Chen, Xiongzhi
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Simultaneous inference (including variable/model selection and multiple comparison) with applications in biology and pharmaceutical science
Latent variable models for high-dimensional data with applications in genomics and signal processing
Analysis of non-Euclidean data (such as networks, shapes, images and tensors)
Spectra of random matrices (including those of sample auto-correlation/auto-covariance matrices) with applications to inference on high-dimensional data
Statistical inference on stochastic differential equations (including those driven by fractional Brownian motions) with applications in finance, biology and geology
Cooper, Kevin Dale, Ph.D.
Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee
Cooper, Sandra Clement, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematics Education, Rational Approximation, Continued Fractions
Dasgupta, Nairanjana, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Non-parametric Statistics, Multiple Comparisons, Comparison to Control, Logistic Distribution, Optimal Designs, Design of Experiments, Innovative Methods of Teaching Statistics, The history of statistics.
Dillon, Robert, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematical modeling, mathematical biology, numerical partial differential equations, computational biofluids.
Dimitrov, Alexander, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Information-theoretic and probabilistic approaches to neural computing and cognitive processes, non-linear neuronal models, chaotic dynamical systems, non-linear signal processing and prediction, systems identification, neural-based intelligent agents. Bioinspired engineering.
Dong, Hongbo, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematical Optimization/Programming, Convex Conic Optimization and Copositive Programming, Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, Optimization Modeling.
Evans, Marc Alexander, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Estimation for multiple recapture models having heterogeneous captures, and inference for binary and multinomial responses from designed experiments with randomization restrictions.
Genz, Alan C, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
numerical computation of multiple integrals. These integrals arise in a wide variety application areas that include electromagnetics, chemistry, physics and statistics. I have developed and implemented many different types of algorithms for the computation of multiple integrals. I am also interested in related problems in multivariate approximation theory.
Hall, William
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematics Education
Hudelson, Matthew G, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Random Algorithms
Jacroux, Michael A, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Experimental Design
Linear Models
Spatial Data
Jandhyala, Venkata Krishna, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Change-point problems for statistical models and their applications, Quality control, Environmental monitoring, Econometrics.
Johnson, Dean, Ph.D.
Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Educational statistics.
Teaching of statistics.
Statistical consulting.
Item response theory.
Kaul, Abhishek
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Khapalov, Alexander, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Applied Analysis; Mathematical Control Theory for Linear and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations; Modeling, Wellposedness and Motion Capabilities for Swimming Phenomenon; Systems Theory: Controllability, Stabilization, Observability and Unique Continuation; Control of Power Systems.
Knott, Libby, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
K-16 mathematics education and professional development.
Krishnamoorthy, Bala, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Applied algebraic topology, computational geometry, geometric measure theory, discrete optimization, data science; applications in computational chemistry, life sciences, and biomedicine.
Lapin, Sergey, Ph.D.
Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Numerical modeling of wave phenomena, numerical simulation of fluid flow, infectious diseases modeling.
Li, Haijun, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Probability, Stochastic Processes, Risk Analysis.
Liu, Sheng-Chi, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Number theory, automorphic forms and representation theory.
Manoranjan, Valipuram S, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Contaminant transport in groundwater, transdermal drug delivery, models for tumor growth and disease dynamics.
McDonald, Judith, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Matrix Analysis and Linear Algebra
Moore, Charles, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Analysis, Harmonic analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Probability Theory
New, Leslie, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Panchenko, Alexander, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Network approximation for effective parameters of concentrated suspensions, homogenization of unconsolidated composites and media with moving interfaces, modeling of osteoporosis and blood circulation, and inverse conductivity problem with rough conductivities.
Pascual, Francis, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Engineering Reliability, Failure-Time Models and Data Analysis, Robust Designs in Accelerated Life Tests.
Schumaker, Mark F, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Models of respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport
Schwartz, Elissa, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
– Experimental and theoretical techniques to investigate mechanisms in virology, immunology, and infectious disease epidemiology
– Control of lentiviral infection, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV).
– Mathematical and computational models of viral dynamics with clinical and experimental data to elucidate the determinants of virus control and escape.
Slavit, David, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Teacher development, particularly in collaborative professional contexts, teacher understanding and instruction STEM schools, the ways in which K-12 students develop understandings of algebraic ideas, particularly mathematical functions, and educational technology.
Sottile, Matthew, Ph.D.
Serves as: member only of graduate committee
Research Interests
Agent-based models
Image processing
Complex systems
Graph algorithms
Scientific computing
Programming languages
Tosic, Predrag, Ph.D.
Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Data science, machine learning, intelligent agents, large-scale data mining and AI, yber-physical systems, distributed coordination and control, large-scale complex networks, mathematical models and algorithms for smart energy and other grids
Tsatsomeros, Michael, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Matrix theory, linear algebra and its applications
Vincent, Kimberly McGinley, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Collegiate and pre-service mathematics education.
Vixie, Kevin, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Geometric analysis and geometric measure theory, geometry and analysis in high dimensions, and data science. Examples include data driven advances in geometric measure theory, image analysis, regularity of minimizers, geometric analysis in metric measure spaces and graphs
Voulgarakis, Nikolaos, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Nanoscale modeling and simulation of soft biological systems and complex fluids. Applications areas: a) gene and drug delivery, b) cell membrane dynamics, and c) energy transfer in biomolecules.
Wang, Xueying, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Mathematical Biology
Wang, Yuan, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Statistical learning of complex data objects including tree, curves and images
Bayesian variable selection
Adaptive clinical trial design
Compressive sensing and system design
Yin, Hong-Ming, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Financial Engineering and Portfolio Management; Applied Mathematics; Partial Differential Equations, Inverse and Ill-posed problems; Electromagnetic Fields and Semiconductor/Superconductor modeling.