In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking about going back to graduate school. I'd appreciate >anyone's opinion about a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati's >Math department, with a concentration in statistics and probability. >I'd also like to know what you think of the career prospects for >someone, say, 57 or 58 years old with a fresh Ph.D. in statistics >and a couple of M.S. degrees in the physical sciences. Is it worth >pursuing a Ph.D. (apart from the personal satisfaction) and giving >up a fairly good job, or would I probably end up as a very well >educated middle-aged pizza delivery guy when I was finished with >school? TIA. Are you passionately interested in doing research in statistics? If yes, then do a PhD. If no, then don't. The jobs prospects in statistics are neither so good nor so bad as to be a factor in the decision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
