Welcome to METU Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics offers courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy. The programs aims at training students and researchers to take part in studies involving extensive observations and experimentations; collection and analysis of data in laboratories and social, economic and public organizations and to derive inferences about the behavior of these organizations. The students who complete the statistics education in the department will be able to make their skills available in the science of inductive inference for research, industrial and social organizations by playing an important part in solving problems of science and practical life. To this end, the department emphasis both the theory and application of statistics in its undergraduate and graduate programs.