College of Letters and Science
8125 Mathematical Sciences
Box 951554
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
Statistics and Data Science
310-825-8430
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The purpose of statistics and data science is to design, construct, and evaluate techniques for analyzing data. The data can be of any type—qualitative, quantitative, visual—and be collected through a variety of means through sensors, machines, self-reports, or random samples. The motivation can be scientific, commercial, legal, or policy.
The Department of Statistics and Data Science is devoted to furthering the science of data, and faculty research focuses on statistical and machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, computational biology, social statistics, and environmetrics, as well as statistics education. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs immerse students in theory, modeling, and computation—the foundations of data science.
Reflecting diverse research interests, the department is organized around several centers that collectively offer undergraduate and graduate students rich opportunities for specialized study. These include the Center for Environmental Statistics, Center for Social Statistics, Center for Statistical Research in Computational Biology, Data Science Education Center, and Trustworthy AI Lab.
