Making my mark on the world with statistics

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the posters we sent out to schools, it may also be of interest to read more of our students’ stories about where they’ve ended up and how they use statistics.

Read stories such as Sammie Jia‘s:

“I’m a biometrician; I analyse data for the plant and food scientists at the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. This involves designing statistical experiments for research, analysing and interpreting the data, summarising the results and making suggestions to the scientists based on my findings.

“At the moment I am working with the scientists investigating how the kiwifruit disease Psa spreads in vines. I’m also looking at how a test group of consumers liked a new type of kiwifruit – modelling human behaviour is fun! I know my work makes a contribution to New Zealand horticulture, and that feels good.

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