Are There Unsolved Problems in Statistics?

[fourier jr]

it seems like all the major problems in math/stats are only in math. why is that? is it because stats is a relatively new field of study (got started ~50yrs ago i think by florence nightingale?), not counting gauss' central limit theorem? or is it because statisticians only work with data collected in experiments, making it extremely concrete/experimental compared with math (esp pure math)? (that might come across as more ignorant that i want it to ) what's the equivalent of the riemann hypothesis in statistics, if there is one?

 

[matt grime]

Florence Nightingale died in the early 1900s, she was born in the early 1800s.

Apart from that I have little to offer in this.

 

[arildno]

Also, she had a pet owl.

 

[Jeff Ford]

You can get a Ph.D. in statistics, so there must be some research in the field

Here's a link to the University of Minnesota's Statistics Department. There are links to faculty research areas from here

http://www.stat.umn.edu/Research/Profile.html

 

[Student_at_CUNY]

Why not do research on brownian motion?

 

[EnumaElish]

Statistics does not necessarily always work with data. There are unsolved problems in statistics. If there weren't, the stock market would not exist, for example.