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Applied Statistics Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in applied statistics is designed to help students develop a broad understanding of methods for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Students learn the fundamental principles of statistics, experiment with techniques for examining and drawing conclusions from data, and study concrete applications of statistics to a variety of fields.

Requirements

The minor consists of five courses chosen from the following:


STA 107INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

4
STA 206INTRO TO STATISTICAL METHODS

4
STA 207ADVANCED REGRESSION TECHNIQ

4
STA 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4
MAT 212MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS

4
MAT 226LINEAR ALGEBRA

4
MAT 316PROBABILITY

4
STA 317MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

4
ECO 230ECONOMETRICS I

4
ECO 354ECONOMETRICS II

4
PSY 201PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS

4
PSY 202RESEARCH METH IN PSYCHOLOGY

4
PSY 407ADV PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTIC

4
BIO 203/COM 203BIOINFORMATICS

4
BIO 208GENETICS

4
BIO 298GENOMICS,PROTEOMICS,BIOINFORM

4
BIO 307FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

4
BIO 315DRUG DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT

4
COM 203/BIO 203BIOINFORMATICS

4
COM 211INFORMATICS

4
STA 121CC: SOC STATS THRU SOC JUSTICE

4

An individual study involving a substantial statistical component may serve in place of one of these courses.

Required Course

Students must complete the following course:

STA 234STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R

4

Two-Course Sequence

Students must complete at least one of the following two-course sequences:

STA 207ADVANCED REGRESSION TECHNIQ

4
and
STA 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4
or
MAT 316PROBABILITY

4
and
STA 317MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

4

Additional Requirement:

•  At least one course from a department other than Mathematics and Statistics.

No more than one introductory statistics course (STA 107, STA 121, STA 206, or PSY 201) may be counted toward the minor; Advanced Placement credit may not be counted toward the minor.  Mathematics majors may not minor in applied statistics, but are encouraged instead to select the statistics concentration within the major.

Students considering graduate study in statistics or in quantitative areas of other fields are encouraged to take courses in mathematics beyond the requirements for the minor, particularly MAT 212, MAT 226, and MAT 301.



Applied Statistics Minor Advisers: P. Barnes (Biology), P. Kohli (Mathematics), J. Nier (Psychology), Y. Park (Economics)