Hi Khai, this depends on what you want to do in the future. The short answer is no. Both statistics and maths are broad fields with solid generalizability and respectability. They also tend to vary a bit in difficulty, rigor and focus across schools.
Math is prob better for keeping the option of various fields of academia open. Stats is prob better for industry. But it’ll depend on the classes you take too.
The most generalizable classes will be:
Calculus Sequence
Linear Algebra
intro to probability and statistics
These are used in a very wide range of fields. But after that it branches out pretty quickly and you want to focus on domain knowledge or technical classes specific to a field
Economics has its own approach to stats called econometrics which deviates quite a bit culturally and technically in its focus. Andrew Gelman has some blog posts you can search on that
Stuff I don’t know which other stats people are more likely to know:
Markov chains
Monte Carlo simulations
really any simulation technique
Bayesian stats
information theory
textual analysis or ML stuff
…and a lot more. And I can / will learn a few of these in the future for work or interest. But they’re not immediately useful
Hi Khai, this depends on what you want to do in the future. The short answer is no. Both statistics and maths are broad fields with solid generalizability and respectability. They also tend to vary a bit in difficulty, rigor and focus across schools.
Math is prob better for keeping the option of various fields of academia open. Stats is prob better for industry. But it’ll depend on the classes you take too.
The most generalizable classes will be:
Calculus Sequence
Linear Algebra
intro to probability and statistics
These are used in a very wide range of fields. But after that it branches out pretty quickly and you want to focus on domain knowledge or technical classes specific to a field
Economics has its own approach to stats called econometrics which deviates quite a bit culturally and technically in its focus. Andrew Gelman has some blog posts you can search on that
Stuff I don’t know which other stats people are more likely to know:
Markov chains
Monte Carlo simulations
really any simulation technique
Bayesian stats
information theory
textual analysis or ML stuff
…and a lot more. And I can / will learn a few of these in the future for work or interest. But they’re not immediately useful