The Applied Statistics Center is a community of scholars at Columbia organized around research projects in the human, social, and engineering sciences, as well as basic statistical research. In addition to coordinating existing projects and seminars, the Center supports visitors and research fellows, facilitates the development of new projects, and connects Columbia students in statistics and quantitative social science as part of research teams in data-rich projects, providing topics for M.A. and Ph.D. theses.
The Applied Statistics Center is formally affiliated with the following Columbia schools and departments:
- Center for Computational Learning Systems
- Columbia Population Research Center
- Earth Institute
- Epidemiology
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Law
- Political Science
- Social Work
- Statistics
and also, through individual research projects, connected with the following other departments: