STATS 403 · STAT 403Mathematical Statistics
Statistics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Basic concepts of mathematical statistics and their applications. Mathematics used to prove various statistical theories, with emphasis on real-world applications. Estimation and statistical inference. Random variables and their distributions; random vectors, their means, variances, variance covariance matrix; and important limit theorems such as central limit theorem.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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.