Welcome to the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics & Political Science. The department currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Statistics.

Events|

The Department of Statistics hosts a number of seminars throughout the year. You can find further details on this page along with an archive of our past seminars and special events and conferences.

Conference honouring the work of Professor Emeritus David J Bartholomew|

The Department of Statistics was very pleased to hold a special two-day social statistics conference honouring the scientific contributions of Professor David J Bartholomew. The conference took place on 12 and 13 December 2011. See 2011 conference on social statistics|.

Research in Risk and Stochastics|

The Risk and Stochastics Group currently consists of six members within the Department, with new appointments aimed at supporting the growing activities in this area: Reader Pauline Barrieu, Lecturer Erik Baurdoux, Lecturer Umut Cetin, Reader Angelos Dassios, Lecturer Hao Xing, Professor Ragnar Norberg and Lecturer Thorsten Rheinlander.

Research in Social Statistics |

We have a long tradition in the area of Social Statistics. The main research areas are latent variable modeling, multilevel and panel modeling, social measurement, statistical model selection, models with measurement error, missing data.

Research in Time Series|

Methodological research is guided by applications with the aid of academic and industrial experts. The theoretical activity in recent years covers a wide spectrum, ranging from linearity to space-time modelling.

BSc Actuarial Science|, BSc Business, Mathematics and Statistics|, BSc Statistics with Finance|

The department has three undergraduate degrees that involve the applications of statistics to the social sciences, and include a range of statistical and mathematical subjects.

MSc Statistics|, MSc Risk & Stochastics|

Our taught postgraduate courses are based around lectures, with problem classes and computer workshops. Most courses are assessed by a two-hour exam in the summer term although some contain an element of course work.

MPhil/PhD in Statistics|

Research programmes are designed to produce professional social scientists, well versed in a range of advanced statistical techniques and methods, in addition to having an in-depth knowledge of a particular area.

Centre for the Analysis of Time Series

Risk and Stochastics Group|

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