This course develops the probabilistic foundations of inference in data science, and builds a comprehensive view of the modeling and decision-making life cycle in data science including its human, social, and ethical implications. Topics include: frequentist and Bayesian decision-making, permutation testing, false discovery rate, probabilistic interpretations of models, Bayesian hierarchical models, basics of experimental design, confidence intervals, causal inference, Thompson sampling, optimal control, Q-learning, differential privacy, clustering algorithms, recommendation systems and an introduction to machine learning tools including decision trees, neural networks and ensemble methods.

Requisites

• Mathematics 54 or Mathematics 110 or Statistics 89A or Physics 89 or both of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 16A and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 16B; Statistics/Computer Science C100; and any of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 126, Statistics 140, Statistics 134, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 172. Statistics 140 or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 126 are preferred.
• Data Science or Statistics Majors with 7+ Terms in Attendance

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for STAT 102 after completing STAT 102. A deficient grade in STAT 102 may be removed by taking STAT 102.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.