2022 Fall

STAT C88S 999 - DIS 999

Formerly Statistics 88

Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Data Science

Class #:32430

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Statistics

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 0

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 0

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

Also offered as: DATA C88S, STAT C88S

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 4 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

In this connector course we will state precisely and prove results discovered while exploring data in Data 8. Topics include: probability, conditioning, and independence; random variables; distributions and joint distributions; expectation, variance, tail bounds; Central Limit Theorem; symmetries in random permutations; prior and posterior distributions; probabilistic models; bias-variance tradeoff; testing hypotheses; correlation and the regression model.

Rules & Requirements

Requisites

Prerequisite: one semester of calculus at the level of Math 16A, Math 10A, or Math 1A. Corequisite or Prerequisite: Foundations of Data Science (COMPSCI C8 / DATA C8 / INFO C8 / STAT C8).