Statistics

Boost your career options and ability to make a difference. Become an expert in collecting, analysing, and interpreting data with postgraduate Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington.

People are using information technology to gather and analyse more data than ever. Studying postgraduate Statistics Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington , you’ll gain advanced expertise in data analysis, discover meaningful patterns in data, and use your insights to guide effective decision making.

Key facts

• Take advantage of the University’s links with the many government departments, research institutes, and businesses based in the capital. 

• Staff and students are involved in research collaborations with organisations including Statistics New Zealand, the Department of Conservation, Contact Energy, GNS Science, and the Accident Compensation Corporation.

Courses include

• Functional analysis, operator algebras, associative rings and algebras

• Singularities of robot kinematics, invariant theory, pseudoinverses for non-Riemannian metrics

• Theory of computation, computability and parametrized complexity, reverse mathematics, algorithmic information theory

• Computability theory, set theory

• Number theory