Description: The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary® definition is: "A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data."
The steps of statistical analysis involve collecting information, evaluating it, and drawing conclusions. The information might be:
- A test group's favorite amount of sweetness in a blend of fruit juices
- The number of men and women hired by a city government
- The velocity of a burning gas on the sun's surface
| Accountant | Actuarial Statistician | Aircraft Designer |
| Animal Health Statistician | Algorithm Designer | Architect |
| Bank Officer | Bio Statistician | Bookkeeper |
| Business Analyst | Clinical Programmer | Computer Scientist |
| Cost Estimator | Cryptographer/Cryptologist | Data Analyst |
| Data Miner | Database Administrator | Demographer |
| Development Manager | Econometrician | Economist |
| Environmental Scientist | Epidemiological Statistician | Financial Analyst |
| Financial Engineer | Financial Planner |
Financial Statistician |
| Forensic Statistician | Foresting Statistician | Game Designer |
| Geologist | Government Statistician | Health Services Statistician |
| Industrial Engineer | Industrial Statistician | Inventory Analyst |
| Investigator | Investment Banker | Lawyer |
| Market Survey Research | Marketing Information Analyst | Mathematician |
| Measurement Statistician | Media Specialist | Medical Statistician |
| Meteorologist | Operations Research Analyst | Personal Financial Advisor |
| Pharmaceutical Engineer | Pharmaceutical Statistician | Physicist |
| Pilot | Professor | Programmer Analyst |
| Project Manager | Psychologist | Quality Analyst |
| Reliability Engineer | Research Scientist | Researcher |
| Risk Analyst | Science Writer | Scientist |
| Social Scientist | Software Engineer | Statistical Consultant |
| Statistical Methodologist | Statistical Programmer | Survey Methodologist |
| Survey Statistician | Systems Analyst | Systems Engineer |
| Teacher | Telecommunications Engineer | Webmaster |
| Problem Solving | Ability to analyze and interpret data |
| Logical thinking | Evaluating theoretical models |
| Systemizing skills | Organizational skills |
| Critical thinking | Teamwork skills |
| Advanced quantitative skills | Numerical computation |
| Computer literacy | Ability to design experiments |
| Verbal and written communication skills | Advising skills |
Statistics Jobs www.statisticsjobs.com
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American Statistical Association job search site http://www.amstat.org/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=main
Jobs with SAS - http://www.sas.com/jobs
Statistics Jobs at Biotechfind.com - http://www.biotechfind.com/pages/careers.htm
Career Center at BioExchange.com - http://career.bioexchange.com/program/defaultindex.cfm
Worldwide Actuarial Search - http://www.dwsimpson.com/
Department of Statistics at Purdue University Job Listings - http://www.stat.purdue.edu/jobs/jobs.cgi?type=1
NC State Gov. Research & Statistics - http://www.osp.state.nc.us/jobs
Rising Star Internships - http://www.rsinternships.com/
Internship Resources http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/internshipsearch.htm
Wet Feet Internship Site - http://wetfeet.internshipprograms.com/
Mathematical Sciences Career Information- Project for Non Academic Employment - http://www.ams.org/careers/
Careers in Statistics (Virginia Tech) - http://www.stat.vt.edu/students/careers.html
Statisticians (Occupational Outlook Handbook) - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos045.htm
Be An Actuary - http://www.beanactuary.org/
Is a Career in Operations Research/Management Science Right for You? http://www.informs.org/Edu/Career/booklet.html
Women in Statistics - http://www.cbs.nl/isi/cws/
Minorities in Statistics - http://www.amstat-online.org/comm/cms/
Caucus for Women in Statistics - www.statwomen.org
Women in NASA - http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
Careers in Science & Engineering - A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/careers/
Professional Association Links
American Statistical Association Career Center www.amstat.org/careers/
Association for Women in Science - http:// www.awis.org/
International Statistical Institute - http://www.cbs.nl/isi/
American Society for Quality - http://www.asq.org/
Society of Actuaries - http://www.soa.org/
SAS - http://www.sas.com
US Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/index.html
National Institute of Standards and Technology - http://www.nist.gov/
Association for Computing Machinery - http://www.acm.org/
Institute of Mathematical Statistics - http://www.imstat.org/
National Institute of Statistical Sciences - http://www.niss.org/
American Mathematical Society - http://www.ams.org
UNCW Post-Graduate Survey - coming soon
Statistics Resources - http:// www.educationindex.com/stats/
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