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Applied Statistics Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in applied statistics is designed to help students develop a broad understanding of methods for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Students learn the fundamental principles of statistics, experiment with techniques for examining and drawing conclusions from data, and study concrete applications of statistics to a variety of fields.

Requirements

The minor consists of five courses chosen from the following:

MAT 107INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

4
MAT 206INTRO TO STATISTICAL METHODS

4
MAT 207ADVANCED REGRESSION TECHNIQ

4
MAT 208DESIGN/ANALYS OF EXPERIMTS

4
MAT 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4
MAT 212MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS

4
MAT 226LINEAR ALGEBRA

4
MAT 234STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R

4
MAT 316PROBABILITY

4
MAT 317MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

4
ECO 230ECONOMETRICS I

4
ECO 354ECONOMETRICS II

4
PSY 201PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS

4
PSY 202RESEARCH METH IN PSYCHOLOGY

4
PSY 407ADV PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTIC

4
BIO 203/COM 203BIOINFORMATICS

4
BIO 208GENETICS

4
BIO 298GENOMICS,PROTEOMICS,BIOINFORM

4
BIO 307FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

4
BOT 315PLANT ECOLOGY

4
COM 203/BIO 203BIOINFORMATICS

4
COM 204INFORMATICS PROGRAMMING

4
COM 211INFORMATICS

4

An individual study involving a substantial statistical component may also serve as one of the five courses.

The following course is required:

MAT 234STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R

4

Students must complete at least one of the following two-course sequences:

MAT 207ADVANCED REGRESSION TECHNIQ

4
and
MAT 209INTRO TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

4
or
MAT 316PROBABILITY

4
and
MAT 317MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

4

Additional Requirement:

  • At least one course from a department other than Mathematics

No more than one introductory statistics course (MAT 107, MAT 206, or PSY 201) may be counted toward the minor; Advanced Placement credit may not be counted toward the minor.  Mathematics majors may not minor in applied statistics, but are encouraged instead to select the statistics concentration within the major.

Students considering graduate study in statistics or in quantitative areas of other fields are encouraged to take courses in mathematics beyond the requirements for the minor, particularly MAT 212, MAT 226, and MAT 301.

 

Applied Statistics Minor Advisers: P. Barnes (Biology), P. Kohli (Mathematics), J. Nier (Psychology), Y. Park (Economics)