Preface Degrees of Freedom has been designed for useful reference from the time you apply to graduate school in statistics or biostatistics at the University of ...

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Berkeley Dining Overview The East Bay is one of the best places in the country to eat, but there's a lot of terrible food around campus, as is the case with most ...

International House Also known as I House (or iHouse for the iPod generation). This is a great option for your first year, while you are adjusting to Berkeley. They ...

Getting around Berkeley by... Public Transportation Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area (or just Bay Area) have excellent public transportation. The simplest ...

California Residency U.S. citizens can be reclassified as California residents for administrative purposes if they satisfy certain requirements during their first ...

Berkeley graduates find jobs at a broad range of institutions throughout the world. Some recent graduates of Berkeley's programs in statistics or biostatistics started ...

Overview Each student is responsible for selecting a research advisor to work with. Students usually choose an advisor during their first or second year. The student ...

Making the Transition from Coursework to Research Most graduate students will have spent nearly 12 years of their lives taking classes and trying to earn good grades ...

Degrees of Freedom This guide is produced by graduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics at UC Berkeley to provide current, relevant information to their peers ...

The Department T shirt Contest Every year, the SGSA invites the students, faculty, and staff to contribute designs for the department's logo contest. The winning ...

Overview All students admitted into the Statistics Department are offered enough financial support to live comfortably, for at least the standard duration of the degree ...

Classes Overview The structure of the Ph.D. was radically revamped in 2004. In particular, the decades old preliminary exams were deprecated in favor of more holistic ...

About the Department History Jerzy Neyman came to the Department of Mathematics at Berkeley from University College, London, in 1938. He founded the Statistical ...

GSI: Graduate Student Instructor Graduate students will typically serve as GSIs several times during the course of their degree. About fifty 25% GSI positions are ...

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Background The oral qualifying examination is meant to determine whether the student is ready to enter the research phase of graduate studies. Students usually take ...

Frequently Asked Questions for Prospective Students SGSA President Emeritus Victor Panaretos provides the following list of questions frequently asked by prospective ...

Readerships The department is allotted funds to pay for readers who grade homework, labs, and other assignments. Readerships are assigned at the beginning of the semester ...

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Research Appointments The department offers approximately eight to twelve 45% GSR positions each semester, and occasionally some 25% GSR positions. The number of appointments ...

Richard Liang The competitive eating career of Richard Liang, once a rising star whose sheer desire to eat was compared to a young Kobayashi Takeru, came to a tragic ...

Organization of the SGSA Previous years: 2007 2006 2008 9 Academic Year Officers President: Megan Goldman Vice President: Moorea Brega Graduate Assembly ...

2006 7 Academic Year Officers President: Vince Vu Vice President: Richard Liang Committees Graduate Assembly Liaison This committee is responsible for ...

2007 8 Academic Year Officers President: David Purdy Vice President: Megan Goldman Graduate Assembly Delegate: Chris Haulk Graduate Assembly Alternate ...

About Berkeley Berkeley is situated in the East San Francisco Bay. Downtown Berkeley is about half an hour by BART, the subway system, from San Francisco (and about ...

Social Events Fall Party The next fall party will be in the Fall 2007 semester. Photos Photos from previous years' parties: 2006 @ The Albatross Pub ...

Consulting The department operates a drop in consulting service (Stat 272). Occasionally clients come in with problems needing more attention than the drop in service ...

Facilities Orientation The Department of Statistics is situated on the third and fourth floors of Evans Hall, in the northeastern quadrant of the campus, north of ...

Student Seminar We've been holding a bi weekly seminar with the support of the Graduate Assembly (GA). Usually, there is an student speaker presenting his/her own ...

Summer Internships and Other Opportunities Finding Opportunities Announcements of summer internships and programs are circulated regularly via the department e mail ...

The 2007 Department T shirt Contest Hello everyone, The annual T shirt contest is now over. Thanks to everyone who submitted a design and all those who voted. The ...

Hello everyone, Thanks everyone for voting in this year's T shirt contest. The winning submission was Submission 1 (clustered): congratulations to the designer, Kevin ...

We have a winner! Thanks to everyone who voted on this year's great t shirt designs. The votes have been counted and the winning design is t shirt #1. The design ...

Acknowledgements This sixteenth edition of Degrees of Freedom (the fifteenth edition was published in 1995) was primarily written (over a tortuous 15 month period ...

Indoor stuff Movie theatres On campus, there's the Pacific Film Archive, four bucks a show for students. The programming there ranges from beloved classics to the ...

University Financial Sources The university has fellowships, long term and short term loans, grants, and fee deferments for which you can apply. Students are eligible ...

University Part time Jobs The Student Learning Center offers employment opportunities as study group leaders for small groups of students who need additional assistance ...

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