Department of Statistics

Alison Phillips and Philip Dixon part of research team which earned $1,050,000 CDC grant

Alison Phillips, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, and Philip Dixon, University Professor in the Department of Statistics, are co-principal investigators on a research… Read More

August 29, 2022

Graduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report

Statistics program secures top-10 rank and several LAS programs improve from previous ranking. Read More

March 30, 2022

Researchers validate CDC’s vaccine rollout recommendation

Researchers in the LAS departments of statistics and mathematics share their compelling findings in a newly published paper on PLOS ONE. Read More

November 17, 2021

Iowa State-led research group secures $300,000 NSF grant to improve the reusability of publicly funded research data

Findings could transform how researchers conduct studies, collaborate with other scientists and share their discoveries with the world. Read More

April 13, 2021

Alicia Carriquiry selected to deliver Florence Nightingale David Lecture

The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors Carriquiry with national award that recognizes her contributions to the statistics profession. Read More

April 7, 2021

COVID-19 model compares effectiveness of vaccine and mitigation strategies

LAS researchers developed a network-based approach to look at the impact of policies and vaccination strategies throughout the pandemic. Read More

January 6, 2021

Heike Hofmann is named Kingland Data Analytics Faculty Fellow

The Kingland fellowship will help Heike Hofmann, professor of statistics, advance her data science research. Read More

November 2, 2020

Iowa State-led research team develops statistical models which help the CDC track and forecast COVID-19 deaths in the United States

The groundbreaking models are the first to predict COVID-19 infection and death counts for every US county. Read More

June 30, 2020