STATS 15 · STAT 15Introduction to Data Science
Statistics · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open to students with credit for course 10, 12, 13, or former course 10H, 11, or 14. Introduction to data science, including data management, data modeling, data visualization, communication of findings, and reproducible work.
P/NP or 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
Official UCLA wording
Preparation: three years of high school mathematics.
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STATS 15
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- MATH 42Introduction to Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling: Life, Universe, and Everything
- POL SCI M170XCausality X
- STATS M169Causality X
- STATS 411Multivariate Statistical Analysis
- STATS 101BIntroduction to Design and Analysis of Experiment
- STATS C173Applied Geostatistics
- STATS 101CIntroduction to Statistical Models and Data Mining
- MATH M148Experience of Data Science
- STATS C151Experimental Design
- STATS 153Hierarchical Linear Modeling
- STATS C160Causal Inference for Health Data
- STATS 170Introduction to Time-Series Analysis
- STATS 184Societal Impacts of Data
- STATS 102AIntroduction to Computational Statistics
- STATS 131Python and Other Technologies for Data Analysis
- STATS 133Introduction to Text Mining Using R
- STATS 143Introduction to Research in Statistics
- STATS C167Introduction to Databases
- STATS C267Introduction to Databases
- STATS C116Applied Bayesian Social Statistics
- STATS 152Environmental Statistics
- STATS C216Applied Bayesian Social Statistics
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