Statistics Personal Statement Examples

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I first discovered my interest in statistics during the winter program at University of California, Berkeley in my sophomore year. In a statistics lecture, professor explained how statistics can be applied to real life by giving an example that Amazon often promotes products by emailing its customers and recommending products according to customers’ search record, as well as their transaction data. Though seeming more likely to be a classic business strategy, this example changed my cognition of statistics and data analysis thoroughly. Previously immersed in the world of abstract statistics, I realized that far beyond an essential tool to confirm theories already proposed, data itself can lead to new thinking, because stories behind it can…show more content…
Besides, I volunteered to participate in my Probability and Mathematical Statistics teacher’s research group and become her research assistant. We worked on A First Course in Mathematical Modeling by Frank R Giordano, William P Fox and Steven B Horton, and Econometrics Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data by Jefferson M Wooldridge for extracurricular study. During that time, I also analyzed factors affecting the competition in Chinese medicine industry, such as capital intensity and R&D expense, based on multivariable linear regression model. I found that after a period of time of in-depth study in statistics and programming, I was able to finish a complete research successfully and independently, which provided me with more impetus to go further in…show more content…
My job in the personal loan center was to assist maintaining database and generating evaluation. One project which I was involved was concerned with evaluating borrowers’ qualifications. During the project, based on the customer information and loan documentation in database, I initiated the borrowers’ default risk assessment model based on analytic hierarchy process to get the weight of 8 factors, such as salary, loan amount and loan period, etc. While reporting my results to my mentor, I realized that although we might draw similar conclusion through daily experience, sufficient data and in-depth analysis of data enables us to understand relationships between various things more directly and precisely. As the trend of information explosion is inevitable, I am sure that the power of data will become increasingly overwhelming, and the role of data analyst will be indispensable. Therefore, along with my goal to graduate study in Statistics, my desire to pursue a career in the field of data analysis was

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