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STATS 20 · STAT 20Introduction to Statistical Programming with R

Statistics · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Designed to prepare students for upper-division work in statistics.

Introduction to use of R, including data management, simple programming, and statistical graphics in R. P/NP or letter grading.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Enforced requisite: one course from course 10, 12, 13, 15, Economics 41, or Psychology 100A, or score of 4 or higher on Advanced Placement Statistics Examination.

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  • STATS 10
  • STATS 12
  • STATS 13
  • STATS 15
  • ECON 41
  • PSYCH 100A

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

STATS 20

  • STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
  • STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
  • ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
      • MATH 1Precalculus
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  • STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
  • STATS 15Introduction to Data Science
  • PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
    • STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoninganother path to it
    • COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
    • PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology

6 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 13 courses over 3 levels. 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.

STATS 20

  • STATS 21Python and Other Technologies for Data Science
    • STATS 152Environmental Statisticsanother path to it
    • STATS C160Causal Inference for Health Dataanother path to it
    • MATH 156Machine Learning
      • STATS 147Data Technologies for Data Scientists
      • STATS M148Experience of Data Scienceanother path to it
      • MATH M148Experience of Data Scienceanother path to it
      • STATS C163Generative Data Science
      • STATS 184Societal Impacts of Dataanother path to it
    • STATS C167Introduction to Databasesanother path to it
  • STATS 101AIntroduction to Data Analysis and Regression
    • STATS 101BIntroduction to Design and Analysis of Experiment
      • STATS C116Applied Bayesian Social Statistics
      • STATS 140XPCollaboration in Data Science1 more beyond
      • STATS 143Introduction to Research in Statisticsanother path to it
      • STATS 153Hierarchical Linear Modelinganother path to it
      • STATS C173Applied Geostatistics
      • STATS C216Applied Bayesian Social Statisticsanother path to it
    • STATS 101CIntroduction to Statistical Models and Data Mining
      • STATS C116Applied Bayesian Social Statisticsanother path to it
      • STATS 133Introduction to Text Mining Using Ranother path to it
      • MATH M148Experience of Data Scienceanother path to it
      • STATS C216Applied Bayesian Social Statistics
    • MATH M148Experience of Data Science
    • STATS C151Experimental Design
    • STATS 153Hierarchical Linear Modeling
    • STATS C160Causal Inference for Health Dataanother path to it
    • STATS 170Introduction to Time-Series Analysis
    • STATS 184Societal Impacts of Data
  • MATH 42Introduction to Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling: Life, Universe, and Everything
    • MATH 118Mathematical Methods of Data Theory
      • STATS M148Experience of Data Science
      • MATH M148Experience of Data Scienceanother path to it
  • 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 Databasesanother path to it
    • STATS C267Introduction to Databasesanother path to it
  • STATS 152Environmental Statistics
  • POL SCI M170XCausality X
  • STATS C160Causal Inference for Health Data
  • STATS C167Introduction to Databases
  • STATS M169Causality X
  • STATS C267Introduction to Databases
  • STATS 411Multivariate Statistical Analysis
  • STATS 422Data Visualization
  • STATS 423Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • STATS 424Teamwork and Leadership in Data Science

14 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 49 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

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