Statistics and Data Science Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in Statistics and Data Science is designed to help students develop a broad understanding of statistical methods for organizing, visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Students will learn the fundamental principles of statistics; wrangle complex data to construct informative data visualizations; build and validate statistical models; and study concrete applications of statistics to a variety of fields.

Requirements

Introductory Statistics Course

Students must complete one of the following courses:

STA 107INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

4

PSY 201PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS

4

With permission of the department, students may substitute any statistics course at the 200 level or higher.
 

Required Courses

Students must complete the following three courses:

STA 207ADVANCED REGRESSION TECHNIQ

4

STA 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4

or

STA 235/BIO 235BIOLOGICAL STATISTICS

4

STA 234STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R

4

Additional Course

In addition, students must complete one course chosen from the following:

STA 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4

STA 235/BIO 235BIOLOGICAL STATISTICS

4

STA 315PROBABILITY AND STAT MODELS

4

STA 317MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

4

STA 334STATISTICAL CONSULTING

4

STA 336STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING

4

BIO 210ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

4

BIO 210LECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION LAB

0

BIO 298GENOMICS,EPIGENOMICS,TRANSCRIP

4

BIO 301GENETICS

4

BIO 301LGENETICS LAB

0

BIO 305MARINE ECOLOGY

4

BIO 305LMARINE ECOLOGY LAB

0

BIO 307/BOT 307FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

4

COM 203/BIO 203BIOINFORMATICS

4

COM 211INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

4

ECO 354ECONOMETRICS II

4

ECO 356ECONOMETRICS AND CAUSALITY

4

MAT 212MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS

4

MAT 226LINEAR ALGEBRA

4

MAT 316PROBABILITY

4

PSY 202RESEARCH METH IN PSYCHOLOGY

4

PSY 407ADV PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTIC

4

 

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

Advanced Placement credit may not be counted toward the minor. Students considering graduate study in statistics or in quantitative areas of other fields are encouraged to take courses in statistics and mathematics beyond the requirements for the minor, particularly STA 315, STA 334, STA 336, MAT 212, MAT 226, and MAT 301.