统计人员可帮助确定采样和数据收集方法，监控研究的进行和数据的处理，并就结果的优缺点提供建议。他们必须了解不确定性的性质，并能够在特定的统计应用中得出结论。精算师是业务专业人员，他们分析风险的财务后果。精算师使用统计，数学和金融理论来研究不确定的未来事件，尤其是那些与保险和养老金计划有关的事件。他们评估了这些事件的可能性，并设计出创新的方法来降低可能性，并减少实际发生的不利事件的影响。他们的工作需要强大的分析技能，商业知识以及对人类行为的理解相结合，才能设计和管理控制风险的程序。<br> <br>职业机会-
The Biostatistics emphasis prepares students to engage in work to advance public health, biology, and medicine. It prepares students for graduate programs in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, bioinformatics, and for health sciences professional programs. The Biostatistics emphasis includes the mathematics courses required for graduate study in statistics and biostatistics<br><br>Program Outcomes: <br>Skills in Fitting Statistical Models<br>Graduates of the program will demonstrate the ability to analyze data by appropriately fitting, assessing, and interpreting a variety of statistical models<br><br>Communication Skills<br>Graduates of the program will write technical reports and make technical presentations containing statistical results, and work in teams to demonstrate the consulting skills of a professional statistician<br><br>Computing Skills - Graduates of the program will be able to manipulate data, implement statistical methods, document, and debug code in one or more profession statistical software programs