PUB PLC 203Statistical Methods of Policy Analysis I
Public Policy · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
First course in two-term sequence (see course 208). Review of statistical principles useful to policy research and analysis. Topics include descriptive statistics, expectations, univariate distribution, probability, covariance and correlations, statistical independence, random sampling, estimators, unbiasedness and efficiency, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PUB PLC 203
- PUB PLC 208Statistical Methods of Policy Analysis II
- PUB PLC CM250Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy
- URBN PL M267Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy
- PUB PLC M221Travel Behavior Analysis
- C&EE M287Travel Behavior Analysis
- URBN PL M253Travel Behavior Analysis
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.