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Electives Approved for the Statistics Major

Elective Course Requirement for the Statistics Major

Statistics majors must complete 3 approved STAT 300-level elective courses offered by the department. Students should choose their elective course from the list below.

Note: MATH 310-2, IEMS 315-0, IEMS 351-0, IEMS 365-0, or IEMS 373-0 may substitute for 1 of the 3 STAT 300-level elective courses. Only 1 substitution is permitted.

 

Electives Approved for the Statistics Major

*One of STAT 348-0 Applied Multivariate Analysis, STAT 351-0 Design and Analysis of Experiments, or STAT 354-0 Applied Time Series Modeling must be taken as a Standard Methods course, but the other two courses may be taken as elective course

 

Approved Elective Course Options with Restricted Registration
The Data Science Sequence: STAT 301-1,2,3 Data Science 1, 2, 3 with R or STAT 303-1,2,3 Data Science 1,2,3 with Python

Registration restrictions: Registration for the Data Science sequence courses is restricted to Data Science minors, Data Science majors, Statistics majors, and Ad Hoc Masters Applied Statistics students. A limited number of seats in the sequence courses are reserved for Statistics majors, but registration priority is given to undergraduate students with a declared Data Science minor or major and graduate students accepted into the Data Science option of the ad hoc MS in Applied Statistics program. Statistics majors who are interested in taking the sequence should see the Department’s Canvas page for instructions. Statistics majors assigned to these courses will be expected to take all three courses in the sequence in a single academic year.

Students may receive credit for only one Data Science sequence, STAT 301-1,2,3 with R or STAT 303-1,2,3 with Python. Students may not switch between the R and Python sequence once they have begun the sequence courses.

STAT 302 Data Visualization

Registration restrictions: Registration for STAT 302 is restricted to Data Science minors, Data Science majors, Statistics majors, and Ad Hoc Masters Applied Statistics students with the course on their approved plan of study, and Statistics PhD and MS graduate students. A limited number of seats in the STAT 302 courses are reserved for Statistics majors, but registration priority is given to the groups of students listed above. Statistics Majors who are interested in taking STAT 302 should see the Department’s Canvas page for instructions.

STAT 304, 305, 362, & 390

While registration for these courses is typically reserved for Data Science majors, there may be circumstances in which a Statistics major will be eligible and able to take these courses.

Only 1 of STAT 304, 305, 362, & 390 can be used towards the STAT 300-level elective requirement.

 

STAT Courses That Cannot be Counted Toward the Elective Requirement for the Statistics Major