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.
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