About Us

The Department of Statistics was founded in 1994, and currently is the largest Statistics department in Australia and New Zealand, with a total of 30 full-time staff who collectively teach more than 5,000 students spread over two campuses and four faculties.

The Department teaches a full range of graduate and undergraduate courses, ranging from our first-year course which is offered to more than 3,800 students per year, to our postgraduate program with an enrolment of over 50 and 20 PhD students.

We provide an active and well-resourced research environment, with strong research groups in the following areas:

Bayesian Methods Experimental Design and Quality Improvement Fisheries Modelling Forensic Statistics Medical Statistics Sample Surveys Statistical Computing Statistical Ecology Statistical Education Stochastic Processes

For more details, see the detailed descriptions on our research page.

The Department operates a statistical consulting service, which provides expert statistical advice on a fee-for-service basis to both internal and external clients.

Staff and students have been involved with a range of conferences and seminars.

Our Aspirations

We want to be a Department:

• that produces high quality research on problems of practical importance, that teaches leading-edge courses that will be useful to students in their coursework and research - whatever their disciplines and in their lives and work after University regardless of the level at which they stop studying Statistics,
• that is innovative in its pedagogy,
• that has strong links with all parts of the University heavily involved in collecting and analysing data,
• in which all lecturing staff have links with at least one other discipline and publish their collaborative research,
• in which all lecturing staff do some applied consulting.