The Statistics and Data Science Center is an MIT-wide focal point for advancing research and education programs related to statistics and data science. The Center was created in 2015 with the goal of formalizing and consolidating efforts in statistics at MIT. The Center’s academic mission is to host and develop new academic programs, from a minor to a PhD in statistics and data science.

Apr
24

Besting Good-Turing for probability estimation over large domains

On April 24, 2026 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Yihong Wu, Yale University

May
01

Statistics and Data Science Seminar

On May 1, 2026 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Edgar Dobriban, UPenn – Wharton School

May
08

Formal Models of Language Generation

On May 8, 2026 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University