On Wednesday 10/20 at 1:30pm the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University is celebrating World

Statistics Day by organizing faculty, staff and students into a human histogram of heights on the football field.

World Statistics Day was created to raise awareness of the many achievements

of official statistics. Carnegie Mellon¹s Department of Statistics is a

world-renowned leader in computational statistics, Bayesian statistics and

cross-disciplinary statistical research. Its faculty, graduates and

students are constantly making significant contributions to the field of

statistics as well as other fields such as astrophysics, genetics, data

confidentiality, medical imaging and neuroscience.