STATISTICS IN BUSINESS

ABOUT STATISTICS IN BUSINESS

Students use statistics to analyze the effectiveness of economic, financial, and business practices. Students collect and analyze data from the money market, mortgage valuation, tax policies, and insurance models.

Statistics in Business

FACULTY

Scott D. Grimshaw

PROFESSOR

Dr. Grimshaw works in audience measurement and analytics, control charts, data mining, and statistical computing. His research on sports statistics has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Deseret News, and ESPN.com.

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Brian Hartman

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Dr. Hartman researches Bayesian methods and their applications in actuarial science and risk. His projects include health insurance claim modeling, financial simulation, and disease prediction. He is the actuarial program director at BYU.

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Robert Richardson

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Dr. Richardson's areas of interest include spatio-temporal data analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, stochastic differential equations, and actuarial and financial models. His research has been used to develop a method of handling data across multiple spatial locations, and it applies to various areas such as ecological, financial, and health fields.

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Del T. Scott

PROFESSOR

Dr. Scott's areas of interest include categorical data, graphical analysis, linear models, and statistical computing. He has published research in software reliability and data extraction.