Social Statistics - Statistics Pathway - PG Dip

We welcome applications from students who have, or expect to have, a second-class honours degree involving a substantial statistical theory component as outlined below.

Your application will be considered on its merits, with motivation and postgraduate experience in a statistical environment potentially important factors.

Non-graduate qualifications, in particular the Graduate Diploma of the Royal Statistical Society, may be accepted in place of an undergraduate degree. Full details of previous statistical training in the form of syllabuses, reading lists and, in particular, examination papers will be helpful in assessing your suitability for the programme.

Academic background

This pathway is suitable for statisticians, mathematicians, econometricians, engineers and other science graduates whose training equips them to study applied statistics at graduate level. It is also suitable for social scientists with a good training in statistics.

Past students have held first degrees in subjects such as mathematics, economics, statistics, and statistics and psychology.

The main prerequisite for the programme is a good grounding in the basic theory and methods of statistics, to the level of texts such as:

• AM Mood, FA Graybill and DC Boes (3rd ed, 1974), Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, McGraw-Hill
• MH DeGroot (2nd ed, 1986), Probability and Statistics, Addison-Wesley
• HJ Larson (3rd ed, 1982), Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistical Inference, Wiley