Statistician Personal Statement

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Personal Statement
I always have a dream to be a statistician. It is a career that collects data and report the conclusion from the data. Statistics plays an important role in the economic. Since we are living in a world that is heavily depends on economic, statistician can easily affect the world. Not to mention, math is one of the subject that I am best at. Therefore, it would be a wise to choose a career that is deeply involve in math. There are many benefit being a statistics, such as high salaries, free access to several program, and more opportunity to get a job. However, my decision of my major are not solely determine the advantages it has, but the experience and the personality I have.
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My parent had been telling me to major in biology, but I was thinking to be an economic major. However, I met someone who helped to decide my major, and he totally change my perception of economic industry. For a start, one time I was at Starbuck discuss my concern with my friend. I told my friend that I want to be an economic major. Suddenly, the man who is sitting next to us pulled a chair and joined our discussion. His name is James Georges, and he handed us his business card. Surprisingly, it turned out he is a Ph.D. statistician who works in the SAS advanced analytics lab. He suggested that I should major in statistics prior to work in the economic industry. He spent three hours to educate me the different branch of statistics. He mentioned economical statistician, a kind of statistician that work with client to analyze the data and maximize the value of the customer portfolios. I realized that this is a career that I am looking for, a career that can potentially stimulate the economic. Likewise, if all the small business have a successful investment, it will increase the employment rate. Thus, the average people in the society would live in a better condition. Additionally, Statistics involves more math then economic which is what I am good at. It is like a perfect major for me. In the end, it is all because of his accommodating information that cleared my apprehension of choosing a major, and I make a step forward to …show more content…

One of my friend was looking for someone to make a small project as to convince his supervisor not to change the rule. I saw it as a perfect opportunity to use my ability, and I volunteer to help him. In his case, an employee with review score of 90% will receive bonus money for each cycle. Regardless, due to the change of rule, employee currently needs to have the score of 92% so as to receive the bonus. I used the survey data he provided to analyze the impact of the new proposing rule. I use the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution. I was able to find the probability of not getting a bonus for both the threshold of 90% score and 92% score. The result was unpredictable. With 90% score of threshold, employee only have 42.8% of chance not getting the bonus whereas 92% score have a 72.6% of not getting the bonus. Eventually, with the project I provide, my friend was able to convince his supervisor not to propose the rule. Overall, it was motivating to involve into the surface of statistics, and I understand that the usage of statistics can totally influence our daily life. Although it is just a small project, being able to contribute part of our community make me proud of

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