{"id":163,"date":"2009-12-15T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:24:55","slug":"undergraduate-program-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/undergraduate-program-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Studies in Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics is the science and, arguably, also the art of learning from data.\u00a0 As a discipline it is concerned with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, as well as the effective communication and presentation of results relying on data.\u00a0 Statistics lies at the heart of the type of quantitative reasoning necessary for making important advances in the sciences, such as medicine and genetics, and for making important decisions in business and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/undergraduate-program-information\/why-study-statistics\/\">visit here<\/a> to get more information on topics related to undergraduate studies in statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics is the science and, arguably, also the art of learning from data.\u00a0 As a discipline it is concerned with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, as well as the effective communication and presentation of results relying on data.\u00a0 Statistics lies at the heart of the type of quantitative reasoning necessary for making important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2537,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}