Statistics PhD

University of Bath

A Statistics PhD allows graduates to participate in scientific research, often with a view to a career in academic or industrial research.The programme is suitable for students who wish to specialise in any of the areas of Statistics research in the department which are:Computational Statistics: Bayesian nonparametrics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Nonparametric regression.High-dimensional Statistics: Graphical models, Network analysis, Time series analysis.Medical Statistics: Clinical Trials, Missing Data, Survival Analysis.Spatial and Environmental Statistics: Extreme value analysis, Spatial data analysis.Statistical Learning: Changepoint detection, Classification, Clustering.