Statistics 8051
Fall 2009
Instructor: Dr. Lan Wang
Office: 385 Ford Hall
Phone: 612-625-7843
Email: lan@stat.umn.edu
Office hours: M, W, F 3:40-4:30pm or by appointments
TA: Wei Qian
Office room: 352 Ford Hall
Phone: 626-1838
Email: weiqian@stat.umn.edu
Office hours: TBA
Below are two recent New York Times articles that you may be interested in:
1. For Today’s
Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (08/05/09)
2. Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power (01/06/09)
Here is a link to Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian on the future of data (02/09)