STATS 418 · STAT 418Tools in Data Science

Statistics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

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Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Tools for data acquisition, transformation and analysis, data visualization, and machine learning and tools for reproducible data analysis, collaboration, and model deployment used by data scientists in practice. Advanced R packages, analytical databases, high-performance machine learning libraries, big data tools.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

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

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 404, 405.

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STATS 418

STATS 404Statistical Computing and Programming
STATS 405Data Management

2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.