Common Areas of Focus for MSS Students
Many MSS students choose to focus their curriculum on a certain field or specialization. Some of the commonly chosen areas and possible electives relevant to them are given below. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and these focus areas are not formal requirements for the MSS degree.
For students interested in:
- Theoretical electives (STA 571, 640, 641, 642, 643, 841, 944)
- STA 711
- STA 732
- MATH 531/532 Real Analysis I and II
- STA 640 Causal Inference
- STA 642 Time Series and Dynamic Models
- STA 623 Statistics and Decision Analysis
- ECON 608D Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 623 Forecasting Financial Markets
- ECON 673 Mathematical Finance
For details on the Quantitative Finance Concentration (QFC), please click here.
- STA 640 Causal Inference
- STA 642 Time Series and Dynamic Models
- STA 522 Design of Surveys and Causal Studies
- BIOSTAT 713 Survival Analysis
- BIOSTAT 710 Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology
- BIOSTAT 824 Case Studies in Biomedical Data Science
- STA 561D Probabilistic Machine Learning
- STA 522 Design of Surveys and Causal Studies
- STA 623 Statistical Decision Theory
- STA 841 Categorical Data Analysis
- ECE 685/COMPSCI 675 Deep Learning
- COMPSCI 572/ECE 684 Natural Language Processing
- COMPSCI 516 Database Systems
- STA 640 Causal Inference
- STA 642 Time Series and Dynamic Models
- STA 841 Categorical Data Analysis
- ECON 608D Introduction to Econometrics
- MARKETING 796E Market Intelligence
- DECISION 611C Decision Modeling
- STA 640 Causal Inference
- STA 522 Design of Surveys and Causal Studies
- STA 650L Social Networks
- SOCIOL 725/726 Demographic Methods