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Doctoral Program - Breadth Requirement

Much of statistics is done in collaboration with scientists and engineers. In order to appreciate scientific problems, students are required to take some courses at a graduate or advanced undergraduate level in some other department. Normally this will be three courses of three units each from an approved department.

Students are advised to choose an area of concentration in a specific scientific field of statistical applications; this can be realized by taking at least 15 units of course work approved by the Ph.D. program advisor.

Mathematics and computer science are subjects that are used in statistics. Students may elect to take 9 units from one of these departments to fulfill the requirement. These units must be from courses numbered higher than 200.

Students with a graduate degree in a scientific area that is not essentially mathematics or statistics are exempted from this requirement.

Current Concentrations
Current areas with suggested course options include:

Computational Biology and Statistical Genomics
Students are expected to take 9 units of graduate courses in genetics or neurosciences (imaging), such as GENE 203/BIOSCI 203, as well as 9 units of classes in Statistical Genetics or Bioinformatics, GENE 344AB, STATS 345, STATS 366, STATS 367.

Machine Learning
Courses can be chosen from the following list:
Statistical Learning: STATS 315A and 315B
Data Bases: CS 245, 346, 347
Probabilistic Methods in AI: CS 221, 354
Statistical Learning Theory and Pattern Classification: CS 229

Applied Probability
Students are expected to take 15 units of graduate courses in some of the following areas:
Control and Stochastic Calculus: MS&E 322, 351, MATH 237, EE 363
Finance: STATS 250, FINANCE 622, MATH 236
Information Theory: EE 376A, 376B
Monte Carlo: STATS 318, 345, 362, MS&E 323
Queuing Theory: MS&E 335, GSB 661, 663
Statistical Mechanics: STATS 365
Stochastic Processes: STATS 317, MATH 234

Earth Science Statistics
Students are expected to take:
STATS 317, STATS 318, STATS 352
and three courses from the GES or Geophysics departments, such as GES 144 or GEOPHYS 210.

Social and Behavioral Sciences
Students are expected to take three advanced courses from the department with an applied orientation such as:
STATS 261/262, STATS 324, STATS 343, STATS 354
and three advanced quantitative courses from departments such as Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, and the Schools of Education, Business or Medicine.



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