Do you want to be a Math Statistician for the Government?

Math Statistician

Job Summary and Qualifications

Would you be interested in:

• Being on the forefront of developing new statistical methodologies and performing cutting edge research to solve statistical problems
• Developing and conducting statistical computing research involving record linkage, time series-modeling, seasonal adjustment, and demographic forecasting
• Designing the surveys that provide the official measurements of income and poverty, unemployment, manufacturing and foreign trade
• Being a part of the statistics sought by the president's council of economic advisors, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Congress

What you need to know:

Their background includes 24 semester / 35 quarter hours of mathematics and statistics in courses such as:

• Introduction to Numerical Analysis
• Elementary Mathematical Models
• Vectors and Matrices
• Introduction to Number Theory
• Differential Equations
• Differential Calculus
• Integral Calculus
• Theory of Equations
• Regression Analysis
• Mathematical Statistics
• Probability
• Integral Vector Calculus
• Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations
• Linear Algebra
• Mathematical Methods of Operational Research
• Time Series Analysis
• Sampling Theory
• Stochastic Process
• Questionnaire Design
• Data Collection Methods in Survey Research
• Survey Methodologies