Choosing Your Intro STAT Course

STAT 200, 20010, 118-119, 220, 234, 244-245, 24410-24510

There are several “first” Statistics courses for students with different math preparations and goals. Ordered from elementary to advanced, they are

STAT 20000 = 20010 < 118-119 \(\approx\) 220 < 234 << 244-245 < 24410-24510

Please note that STAT 200, 20010, 118-119, 220, 234, 244, 24410 are NOT in sequence. None of these courses is a prerequisite for any of the others. For example, you don’t have to take STAT 200 before 220, or 220 before 244 etc. You can go straight to STAT 220, 234, 244, or 24410 if you meet the corresponding prerequisites. On the other hand, those elementary ones do NOT prepare you for the advanced ones. For example,

• STAT 200 is not sufficient to prepare you for STAT 220 (You need Calculus)
• STAT 234 is not sufficient to prepare you for STAT 244 (You need Multivariate Calculus)

Generally, most students only need to take ONE of STAT 200, 20010, 220, 234, 244 and 24410.

• An exception is that a few Statistics majors take STAT 220 or 234 before 244 so that they can take STAT 224 and other electives (STAT 222/226/27410) before finishing STAT 245

To choose which Intro-Stat course to begin with, you should first consider

• your major(s) or minor(s).

Also consider the following

• The Rules: Prerequisites, Anti-Prerequisites, and Using Courses in the Major, Minor, or Gen Ed
• Intended Audiences
• Course comparisons
• Course Descriptions in the college catalog
• General Information in the College Catalog

Still cannot decide? Email Yibi Huang (yibih@uchicago.edu) to schedule a meeting.

Also talk to Yibi (yibih@uchicago.edu) if interested in the Statistics major or minor

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DISCLAIMER: These guidelines do not supersede or replace the University’s official publications on course prerequisites, course descriptions, or other relevant information in the College Catalog of the Statistics Major & Minor Programs and of the Data Science Major and Minor Programs, and at my.UChicago.

This webpage is maintained by Yibi Huang
Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs in Statistics
Email: yibih@uchicago.edu

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