2024-2025 Catalog

MATH-765 Advanced Statistics

The course provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, data and sampling distributions, statistical experiments and significance testing, regression and prediction, classification, statistical machine learning, and unsupervised learning. Emphasis will be on methods and problem-solving. Students are expected to be familiar with R or Python and have some exposure to statistics before they take the course.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci Master of Science in Data Science MSDS And Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed all of the following course(s) CMPSC 701 - Programming for Data Science, MATH 755 - Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra for Data Science Applications