DSC 212Probability and Statistics for Data Science

4 units · DSC · UC San Diego

Probability, random variables, distributions, central limit theorem, maximum likelihood estimation, method of moments, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, Bayesian estimation, introduction to simulation and the bootstrap.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “none. Restricted to students within the DS75 and DS76 major.”

What it opens up

Courses that list DSC 212 as a prerequisite (9)

DSC 205 Geometry of Data
DSC 206 Algorithms for Data Science
DSC 213 Statistics on Manifolds
DSC 240 Machine Learning
DSC 241 Statistical Models
DSC 243 Advanced Optimization
DSC 244 Large-Scale Statistical Analysis
DSC 245 Introduction to Causal Inference
DSC 254 Statistical Signal and Image Analysis