MS in statistics/applied statistics

[vivo]

exactly how good at math should you be for this? I;m guessing applied stats might be easier. in some cases i guess it could be the same since stat may have an applied stats track. how good at stats should you be> didn;t take many stat courses in college. im ok at stat wouldn't say great. probability theory seems to be more of a problem than stats.

[embrassezla]

exactly how good at math should you be for this? I;m guessing applied stats might be easier. in some cases i guess it could be the same since stat may have an applied stats track. how good at stats should you be> didn;t take many stat courses in college. im ok at stat wouldn't say great. probability theory seems to be more of a problem than stats.
You don't need a lot of high level math courses to be able to perform the calculations necessary for stat - pretty much calculus is as high as you need to go. But statistics doesn't come easy for a lot of people - I really had to work at it to understand. It's easy to get confused. I'd say you'd have to be pretty on your game to get an MS in stat.

[vivo]

You don't need a lot of high level math courses to be able to perform the calculations necessary for stat - pretty much calculus is as high as you need to go. But statistics doesn't come easy for a lot of people - I really had to work at it to understand. It's easy to get confused. I'd say you'd have to be pretty on your game to get an MS in stat.

Damn! U got an MS in Stat?

[vivo]

I meant damn as a response to the part I bolded not that u may have gotten an ms in stat

[embrassezla]

No, I have an MA in Applied Mathematics. I do a lot of stat for work, though.

[dave134]

I am planning to go for an MS Statistics in a year or 2. It seems to me you basically will just need to have a solid grasp of multivar calc, some calc-based statistics, some computer programming, and some linear algebra. You probably should have some probability theory course taken. I am really not sure about admissions though, it probably depends on the school for what they want. Are most MS Stats programs the same though? I'm not really seeing the value in going to a more prestigious school.

[redav]

My father has a PhD in stat. Of course you need to have a firm foundation in math, esp calculus, but more important is the ability to think critically. The actual computations for stat aren't that hard; rather, it is the interpretation/conceptualization that throws most people off, and I expect that would be more intense in a masters program than undergrad.

Stat is very precise in what it deals with, and a lot of common sense doesn't work. For example: understanding the difference between a scenario that has a certain probability of happening & a probability of a scenario that is either 0 or 1, but you don't know which; also you can apply different theories to a given problem and get different answers, either of which may be valid, but you have to determine which is more appropriate.

[vivo]

me again. anyone in here have an MA/MS in applied stats. Anyone work specifically in stats or a field using applied stats ?

[Jabberwocky]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of jobs are available out there for someone with a Masters in Stats