**math.ST Statistics**

 - *almost everywhere*
 - Accurate polling
 - Fraud detection: whether financial (e.g. via Benford's law) or voter fraud.
 - Used in the world of finance, economics and gambling on a daily basis. 
 - Predicting consumer preferences (e.g. Netflix prize)
 - Experimental design and hypothesis testing (e.g. testing of medical hypotheses)
 - [Machine learning][1]
 - [Quality control][2]


  [1]: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_control