DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

Required Courses for MS in Statistics

These requirements are for the MS in Statistics program. If you are an Ad Hoc MS in Applied Statistics program student please see https://statistics.northwestern.edu/graduate/ad-hoc-ms-degree/index.html for the information pertaining to your program.

Required Statistics Coursework:

The required Statistics courses are:

• STAT 350-0 Regression Analysis
• STAT 353-0 Advanced Regression
• STAT 415-0 Introduction to Machine Learning
• STAT 420-1 Introduction to Statistical Theory and Methodology 1
• STAT 420-2 Introduction to Statistical Theory and Methodology 2
• STAT 420-3 Introduction to Statistical Theory and Methodology 3
• At least 6 electives (no more than 10) approved by the program director, at least 2 of which must be 400-level STAT elective courses, and no more than 3 courses can be chosen from other programs to fulfill the coursework requirement.

Approved STAT elective courses for MS:

at least 2 elective courses must be 400 level

•     STAT 302-0 Data Visualization
•     STAT 304-0 Data Structures and Algorithms for Data Science
•     STAT 305-0 Information Management for Data Science
•     STAT 328-0 Causal Inference
•     STAT 344-0 Statistical Computing
•     STAT 348-0 Applied Multivariate Analysis
•     STAT 351-0 Design and Analysis of Experiments
•     STAT 352-0 Nonparametric Statistical Methods
•     STAT 354-0 Time Series Modeling
•     STAT 356-0 Hierarchical Linear Models
•     *STAT 357-0 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
•     STAT 359-0 Topics in Statistics
•     STAT 362-0 Advanced Machine Learning for Data Science
•     STAT 365-0 Introduction to the Analysis Financial Data
•     STAT 430-1 Probability for Statistical Inference 1
•     STAT 430-2 Probability for Statistical Inference 2
•     STAT 435-0 Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning
•     STAT 439-0 Meta-Analysis
•     STAT 440-0 Applied Stochastic Processes for Statistics
•     STAT 455-0 Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis
•     STAT 456-0 Generalized Linear Models
•     *STAT 457-0 Applied Bayesian Inference
•     STAT 461-0 Advanced Topics in Statistics
•     STAT 465-0 Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

* MS students may take STAT 357 or, if they do well in STAT 420-1, they may take STAT 457 instead. Students may apply only one of STAT 357 and STAT 457 to the required coursework for the MS in Statistics degree.