STATS 401 · STAT 401Survey of Methods in Modern Statistics
Statistics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Overview of fundamental concepts of data analysis and statistical inference and how these are applied in wide variety of settings. Arc of statistical investigation, including data collection, data exploration, formal inference, and model checking.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- 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.
STATS 401
- STATS 427Applied Bayesian Statistics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.