Information for Second Year Ph.D. Students in Statistics

The second year program for Ph.D. students has the purpose to expose everyone to a number of important areas of statistics, and to help in finding a research area and advisor. To facilitate this, students are recommended to take courses such as the ones listed below.

The courses can be chosen among the following (those that you have not already taken). For more detail, please consult our Course Announcements

Below are numbers of courses from previous terms and the general topics they cover. As these courses will change each year, please use the listings below to suggest possibilities. Consult the current schedule for actual listing.

Series	Autumn	Winter	Spring
Theoretical and Conceptual Statistics	37000		36700
Applied Statistics	33100	32300 33500	32100 33700
Pure Probability	38100	38300	38500
Computation	30700	32300 47800	37900
Finance	39000 33800	39100 49400	49400
Genetics		45600	35500 45600
Biostatistics	35000	32300 35100	35600
Time series		33500	33700
Consulting	44100	44100	44100

Feel free to see your advisor or the department counselor (Per Mykland) whenever you have questions.