Should I have mentioned these in SOP?

[DMX]

I work at a statistical consulting firm and we provide predictive analytics to clients.

 

We do some state-of-the-art stuff from a technical standpoint (random forests, boosting, recurrent neural nets to name a few). I didn't put any of this down in my SoP since I didn't feel it to be "worthy" of true statistical research, in that we aren't inventing new techinques. But I've been browsing some research papers on the applied statistics side and I realize what I do is a majority of what applied statisticians do (i.e. variable selection & interpretation using statistical tools).

 

I feel like I've sold myself short but not mentioning any of this in the application.

 

Also, I've participated in data mining competitions (a la Kaggle) and have some decent results. And some Kaggle competitions have entire stat/biostat departments participating!

 

Should I have mentioned these in my SoP? Is it too late to mention them now?

[uromastyx]

idk your field, which is fine, because it's too late.

we all do/did this - worrying about all the little details of the application.

try to not stress about it.

 

Deep breaths, my friend, deep breaths.

Edited February 7, 2013 by uromastyx