Course Requirements for Undergraduate Minor

Most students interested in completing the minor will be considering a career in social science or biological research. The minor requires 15 credits (5 courses), plus a significant research project involving the analysis of data. The best possible expression of this requirement would be an honors thesis in the student’s major, using skills gained in the Applied Statistics minor.

The minor will start with courses at the 300 level, and all courses are cross-listed so that they are open to graduate students.

A minor in Applied Statistics would not substitute for or replace courses in mathematical statistics offered by the Department of Mathematics.

(Students considering a career in statistics should pursue their primary curriculum through Mathematics; those students may choose to enrich their education with some courses from the Centor for Applied Statistics.)

The core curriculum requires a sequence of three required courses and two electives, as follows:

The fourth and fifth courses to complete the minor can be selected from a series of electives:

• 420 - Categorical Data Anaylsis
• 430 - Multilevel Modeling
• 440 - Factor Analysis and Related Methods
• 450 - Panel Data
• 560 - Visiting Scholar Statistical Research Seminar in Applied Statistics
• 581 - Quantitative Political Methodology I
• 5067 - Quantitative Methods II

Courses for Graduate Students

All courses offered for the Undergraduate Minor are cross-listed at the 400-500 level so that they are available to graduate students as shown in the table below. Graduate students interested in developing a solid foundation in Applied Statistics should consider the sequence of courses for the Undergraduate Minor.