Duke Statistics or UnivOfWashington Applied Math?

[KatieJ16]

Trying to decide between Duke's Department of Statistical Science and the University of Washington's Applied Mathematics Program???  They both seem great.  I tentatively want to focus on Bayesian Statistics.  A named fellowship at UW with zero teaching and at Duke do not need to TA until second year.  Very similar good offers.  How to decide???  Please help with any advice.  I am a Californian currently an Applied and Computational Mathematics  undergrad at Caltech.  

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[omicrontrabb]

If you want to do bayesian statistics, you should definitely go to Duke for statistics. Multiple people on this forum have said that it is generally a bad idea to get PhDs in applied math/computational math/etc if you want to study statistics. UW has a great applied math department, but look at their research focuses and dissertation topics. They do not seem to have much focus on statistics.

[omicrontrabb]

https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/116024-biostat-computational-math-statistics/?do=findComment&comment=1058665542

 

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[bayessays]

The only question to ask is whether you want to be a statistician or an applied mathematician.  This is the type of department you're 95% likely to get a job in. If you want to study Bayesian statistics, you'd be crazy to go to UW applied math over Duke stats.