MGMTMFE 413

Financial Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Management-Master of Financial Engineering · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

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Study of data science oriented toward predictive analytics with applications to finance. Topics include panel regressions, regularization, model validation and selection, models for discrete outcomes, text analysis, and standard machine learning methods.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 402, 407.

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MGMTMFE 413

MGMTMFE 402Econometrics
MGMTMFE 407Empirical Methods in Finance

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