PSYCH 259Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Psychology
Psychology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Number of nonstatistical mathematical methods and techniques commonly used in cognitive psychology. Topics include Markov chains, other stochastic processes, queueing theory, information theory, frequency analysis, etc.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 250A, 250B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PSYCH 259
- PSYCH 250AAdvanced Psychological Statistics
- PSYCH 250BAdvanced Psychological Statistics
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.