2026-2027 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Statistics Minor

Requirements: (18 credits)

18 credits are required, not including the "additional requirements".

Statistics Course (3 credits)

STAT 201 or STAT 216 or STAT 453

STAT 201Business Statistics II

3

or

STAT 216Stat for Behavioral Sci II

3

or

STAT 453Applied Statistical Inference

3

9 credits of 300-level STAT and above

STAT 314Introductory Statistics for Secondary Teachers

3

STAT 315Mathematical Statistics I

3

STAT 401Biostatistics

4

STAT 402Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis

4

STAT 403Analysis of Correlated Data

4

STAT 416Mathematical Statistics II

4

STAT 425Loss and Frequency Distributions and Credibility Theory

4

STAT 455Experimental Design

3

STAT 456Statistical Computation

3

STAT 465Nonparametric Statistics

3

STAT 476Topics in Statistics

3

STAT 467Applied Linear Regression Models

4

STAT 469Monte Carlo Methods

4

Electives (6 credits): chosen from the list above, or from DATA courses

DATA 101Fundamentals of Data Science

3

DATA 201Classification Analytics

3

DATA 202Estimation & Clustering Anltcs

3

DATA 203Advanced Topics in Data Science

3

DATA 301Data Science Using Python

4

DATA 311Information Visualization

4

DATA 331Introduction to Multivariate Analytics

4

DATA 421Introduction to Bioinformatics

4

DATA 471Big Data and Cloud Computing

3

DATA 499Data Science Senior Project

3

Additional Requirements:
STAT 104Elementary Statistics

3

or

STAT 200Business Statistics

3

or

STAT 208Introduction to Biostatistics

3

or

STAT 215Stat for Behavioral Sciences I

3

Total Credit Hours: 18

Note: No more than one course may be used in both the student's major program and the minor in statistics. A minimum GPA of 2.00 in all courses is mandatory, and grades below C– will not be accepted.