Statistics Program

The Five College Statistics Program was created in 2011 to enable statistics faculty members at the five campuses to coordinate and integrate resources to better serve our statistics and data science students.

“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.”
- John Tukey, Statistician

"Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai."
- Jonathan Rosenberg (former Google Inc. Senior Vice President)

The time to become statistically literate is now. The Five College Statistics Program was created in 2011 to enable statistics faculty members at the five campuses to coordinate and integrate resources to better serve our statistics and data science students.

Whether you want to take an introductory statistics or data science class or pursue elective course offerings, the Five Colleges has courses and programs of study just waiting for you.  Statistics and data science are present through multiple programs in the Valley:

  • Undergraduate majors/minors at Amherst, Mt Holyoke, Smith, and UMass Mathematics and Statistics
  • Graduate programs in Statistics and Biostatistics at UMass
  • A data analytics and society nexus at Mt Holyoke

All campuses have a rotation of statistics electives that may be of interest to students.

On this page, you can find resources, including links to statistics courses at each school, statistics faculty on each campus, news and events, announcements and more.

The Five College Statistics Program is committed to fostering closer ties between the faculty members teaching statistics and facilitating additional curricular cooperation to continue the strong statistical presence in the Valley. The Five College Statisticians meet on a regular basis to coordinate activities and curricular offerings.

Faculty

News

Nicholas J. Horton, the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Mosteller Statistician of the Year award by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. The award honors individuals from academia, industry, and government who have made exceptional contributions to the field of statistics and who have shown outstanding service to the statistical community, including the Boston Chapter.

Winners of the Five College Statistics award for 2023 are: 

  • Amherst: Elizabeth Williamson and Alex Brandfonbrener
  • Hampshire: Sabina Iftikhar
  • Mt Holyoke: Emily Rosaci
  • Smith: Clara Li  and Aushanae Haller
  • UMass/Biostatistics: Benjamin Goldberg
  • UMass/Statistics: Adira Cohen

Congratulations to all of these students for their excellent work!

Professor Brittney Bailey (Amherst College) was named the recipient of the 2023 Mu Sigma Rho Early Career Undergraduate Impact Award for her dedicated and innovative approaches to support and empower students through her teaching, her leadership of StatFest and The STEM Incubator, and her efforts on behalf of the profession. More information about the award can be found at: https://www.stat.purdue.edu/msr/(link is external)

 

Professor Nick Horton, Beitzel Professor of Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College, has been elected(link is external) as vice president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Professor Horton's term begins in January 2021; he will serve with ASA president-elect Dionne Price, who will become the first African-American president of the ASA.

Professor Miles Ott, Assistant Professor of Statistical and Data Sciences is the 2021 LGBTQ+ Educator of the Year(link is external). This award is given an educator for significant impact on STEM students "through teaching, advocacy, and role modeling."

Congratulations to Professor Ott on this honor!

The Five Colleges had a strong showing in the Fall 2020 Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition, with winners in the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR(link is external)), the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project (USCLAP(link is external)), and the Undergraduate Statistics Research Project (USRESP(link is external)).

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 competition winners:

Nicholas Reich, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, recently delivered a series of keynote talks on the topic of COVID-19 forecasting(link is external)

Thank you, Professor Reich, for your continuing contributions to the field of Biostatistics!

Courses

Note that if you don't see classes from all campuses currently listed, they will appear as the campuses release their course schedules for the semester. The five campuses release their schedules on different dates. Visit this page for specific dates.

Spring 2025 Statistics Courses

Subject
Course #
Sect #
Course Title
Instructor(s)
Institution
Meeting Times
Subject
STAT
Course #
135
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro to Stats Modeling
Instructor(s)
Kevin Donges
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
135
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intro to Stats Modeling
Instructor(s)
Kevin Donges
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
135
Sect #
03
Course Title
Intro to Stats Modeling
Instructor(s)
Shu-Min Liao
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
135
Sect #
04
Course Title
Intro to Stats Modeling
Instructor(s)
Brittney Bailey
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
136
Sect #
01
Course Title
Stats and Mental Health
Instructor(s)
Shu-Min Liao
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
201
Sect #
01
Course Title
Writing in STEM
Instructor(s)
Katharine Correia
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
230
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intermediate Stats
Instructor(s)
Pamela Matheson
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
230
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intermediate Stats
Instructor(s)
Pamela Matheson
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
231
Sect #
02
Course Title
Data Science
Instructor(s)
Katharine Correia
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
360
Sect #
01
Course Title
Probability
Instructor(s)
Kevin Donges
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
370
Sect #
01
Course Title
Theoretical Statistics
Instructor(s)
Amy Wagaman
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
M/W/F | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
456
Sect #
01
Course Title
Generalized Lin Models
Instructor(s)
Brittney Bailey
Institution
Amherst College
Meeting Times
TU/TH | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Subject
NS
Course #
0104
Sect #
1
Course Title
Introduction to Data Science
Instructor(s)
Kenneth Mulder
Institution
Hampshire College
Meeting Times
10:30AM-11:50AM TU;10:30AM-11:50AM TH
Subject
NS
Course #
0259
Sect #
1
Course Title
Intro to Beyesian Modeling
Instructor(s)
Kenneth Mulder
Institution
Hampshire College
Meeting Times
01:00PM-02:20PM M;01:00PM-02:20PM W
Subject
DATA
Course #
113
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro to Data Science
Instructor(s)
Arie Shaus
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 11:30AM-12:45PM
Subject
DATA
Course #
390
Sect #
01
Course Title
Data Science Capstone
Instructor(s)
Arie Shaus
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MW 10:00AM-11:15AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
140
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Instructor(s)
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 08:30AM-09:45AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
140
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Instructor(s)
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 10:00AM-11:15AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
140
Sect #
03
Course Title
Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Instructor(s)
Ben Pittman-Polletta
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 01:45PM-03:00PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
242
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intermediate Statistics
Instructor(s)
Isabelle Beaudry
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 10:00AM-11:15AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
242
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intermediate Statistics
Instructor(s)
Laura Lyman
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 03:15PM-04:30PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
244SC
Sect #
01
Course Title
Computational Statistics
Instructor(s)
Laura Lyman
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MW 01:45PM-03:00PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
340
Sect #
01
Course Title
Applied Regression Methods
Instructor(s)
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 03:15PM-04:30PM
Subject
STAT
Course #
343
Sect #
01
Course Title
Mathematical Statistics
Instructor(s)
Isabelle Beaudry
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MWF 08:30AM-09:45AM
Subject
STAT
Course #
344ND
Sect #
01
Course Title
Analysis of Neural Data
Instructor(s)
Ben Pittman-Polletta
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Meeting Times
MW 10:00AM-11:15AM
Subject
BIO
Course #
372
Sect #
01
Course Title
Colq:Quantitativ Ecology
Instructor(s)
Aly Putnam
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
100
Sect #
01
Course Title
Lab: Computing w/Data
Instructor(s)
yujie wang
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
100
Sect #
02
Course Title
Lab: Computing w/Data
Instructor(s)
yujie wang
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
100
Sect #
03
Course Title
Lab: Computing w/Data
Instructor(s)
yujie wang
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
109
Sect #
01
Course Title
Communicating With Data
Instructor(s)
Ab Mosca
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
192
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro to Data Sciences
Instructor(s)
Nicholas Schwab
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W F 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
192
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intro to Data Sciences
Instructor(s)
Nicholas Schwab
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W F 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
201
Sect #
01
Course Title
Statistical Methods:Undergrad
Instructor(s)
Kementari Whitcher
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W F 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
201
Sect #
02
Course Title
Statistical Methods:Undergrad
Instructor(s)
William Hopper
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W F 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM; M 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
220
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro/Probability/Statistics
Instructor(s)
Kaitlyn Cook
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W F 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
220
Sect #
02
Course Title
Intro/Probability/Statistics
Instructor(s)
Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W F 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM; M 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
236
Sect #
01
Course Title
Data Journalism
Instructor(s)
Ben Baumer,Naila F. Moreira
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
237
Sect #
01
Course Title
Data Ethnography
Instructor(s)
Lindsay Poirier
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
238
Sect #
01
Course Title
Community-Based Data Science
Instructor(s)
Lindsay Poirier
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
270
Sect #
01
Course Title
Programming Data Science: R
Instructor(s)
William Hopper
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
290
Sect #
01
Course Title
Research Design & Analysis
Instructor(s)
Scott J. LaCombe
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
291
Sect #
01
Course Title
Multiple Regression
Instructor(s)
Kaitlyn Cook
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Subject
SDS
Course #
291
Sect #
02
Course Title
Multiple Regression
Instructor(s)
yujie wang
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM; M 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
293
Sect #
01
Course Title
Machine Learning
Instructor(s)
R. Jordan Crouser
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
300fs
Sect #
01
Course Title
Sem: T-Food Systems
Instructor(s)
Kementari Whitcher
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
320
Sect #
01
Course Title
Mathematical Statistics
Instructor(s)
Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
364
Sect #
01
Course Title
Research Sem: Intrgrp Relatnsh
Instructor(s)
Randi L Garcia
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
TU TH 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
390cd
Sect #
01
Course Title
T-Categorical Data
Instructor(s)
Kementari Whitcher
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
M W 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Subject
SDS
Course #
410
Sect #
01
Course Title
Capstone in SDS
Instructor(s)
Ben Baumer
Institution
Smith College
Meeting Times
W 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM; M 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Subject
BIOSTATS
Course #
683
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro to Causal Inference
Instructor(s)
Aaron Sarvet
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
Subject
BIOSTATS
Course #
748
Sect #
01
Course Title
Applied Survival Analysis
Instructor(s)
Raji Balasubramanian
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
Subject
PUBHLTH
Course #
223
Sect #
01
Course Title
Intro/Biostats for PUBHLTH
Instructor(s)
Sofija Zagarins
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W F 11:15AM 12:05PM
Subject
PUBHLTH
Course #
494CI
Sect #
01
Course Title
Public Health Sciences Capston
Instructor(s)
Karl Cyr
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 4:00PM 5:15PM
Subject
PUBHLTH
Course #
494CI
Sect #
02
Course Title
Public Health Sciences Capston
Instructor(s)
Song Liang
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
Subject
PUBHLTH
Course #
494CI
Sect #
03
Course Title
Public Health Sciences Capston
Instructor(s)
David Chin
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
Subject
PUBHLTH
Course #
494CI
Sect #
04
Course Title
Public Health Sciences Capston
Instructor(s)
KRYSTAL KITTLE
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
Subject
SPHHS
Course #
616
Sect #
01
Course Title
Epidemiology & Biostatistics B
Instructor(s)
Elizabeth Cook,Sofija Zagarins
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
310
Sect #
01
Course Title
Fundamental Concepts/Stats
Instructor(s)
Sepideh Mosaferi
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
01
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Michael Sullivan
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
02
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Byeong-Ho Bahn
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W F 12:20PM 1:10PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
03
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Qian-Yong Chen
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
05
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Michael Sullivan
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 8:30AM 9:45AM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
06
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Kien Nguyen
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
315
Sect #
07
Course Title
Statistics I
Instructor(s)
Luc Rey-Bellet
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
516
Sect #
01
Course Title
Statistics II
Instructor(s)
Sepideh Mosaferi
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
525
Sect #
01
Course Title
Regression&Analysis/Variance
Instructor(s)
Jonathan Larson
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W F 10:10AM 11:00AM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
525
Sect #
02
Course Title
Regression&Analysis/Variance
Instructor(s)
Jonathan Larson
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W F 12:20PM 1:10PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
525
Sect #
03
Course Title
Regression&Analysis/Variance
Instructor(s)
Daeyoung Kim
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W F 11:15AM 12:05PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
535
Sect #
01
Course Title
Statistical Computing
Instructor(s)
Maryclare Griffin
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
Subject
STATISTC
Course #
598C
Sect #
01
Course Title
StatisticalConsultingPracticum
Instructor(s)
Krista Gile,Anna Liu
Institution
UMass Amherst
Meeting Times
TU 1:00PM 2:15PM

Resources

The Lorna M. Peterson Award supports scholarly and creative work by undergraduate students taking part in Five College programs. The prize is awarded annually based on nominations from Five College programs.

Campus Curricula

Contact Us

Five College Statistics Program Representatives:

Amy Wagaman(link is external), Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College (Chair)

Jeffrey Barton(link is external), Professor of Mathematics, Hampshire College (Secretary/Treasurer)

Laurie Tupper(link is external), Associate Professor of Statistics, Mount Holyoke College

Randi Garcia(link is external), Assistant Professor of Psychology and of Statistical & Data Sciences, Smith College 

Carlos Soto(link is external), Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, UMass
 

Five College Staff Liaison:
 

Ray Rennard, Director of Academic Programs