Statistics Course Guide

The UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology requires two courses in quantitative methods. On these pages you will find descriptions of courses that could fulfill this requirement, as well student comments on the courses. Please add your own constructive comments and fix or let us know about outdated information.

• Survey: What stats/quant courses have you taken?
• Courses by department
• Other Davis Stats Resources

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The chart below shows the statistics courses that GGE students have taken. Note these results are self-reported.

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Courses by department

Click on a course to see a description and comments. Please add your own comments and ask questions! Reviews, descriptions, and links to professor/course/syllabus webpages are all helpful.

Important: Inclusion on this webpage is no guarantee that a course will fulfill your quantitative requirements. That is up to your committee. Also, remember that, for GGE students, your quantitative methods examiner must be a member of the GGE.

Animal Sciences

• ABG250. Mathematical Modeling in Biological Systems

Anthropology

• ANT298/ECL 298. Statistical Rethinking
• ANT261. Modeling the Evolution of Social Behavior

Biostatistics

• BST222. Survival Analysis
• BST223. Generalized Linear Modelsa
• BST224. Analysis Of Longitudinal Data
• BST225. Clinical Trials
• BST226. Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics

Ecology

• ECL231. Mathematical Methods in Population Biology
• ECL290. Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments
• ECL233.Computational methods in population biology
• ECL262. Advanced Population Dynamics
• ECL298. Basics of Data Manipulation in R

Ecology and Evolution

• EVE231. Principles of Biological Data Analysis

Economics (inc. Agricultural Economics)

• ECN240A. Econometric Methods
• ECN240B. Econometric Methods
• ARE256. Applied Econometrics

Epidemiology

• EPI204A. Foundation of Statistical Methods
• EPI204B. Statistical Models, Methods, and Data Analysis for Scientists

Geography

• GEO200CN. Quantitative Geography

Hydrology

• HYD273. Introduction to Geostatistics

Mathematics

• MAT135A. Probability
• MAT135B. Stochastic Processes

Political Science

• POL211. Research Methods in Political Science
• POL212. Quantitative Analysis in Political Science
• POL213. Quantitative Analysis in Political Science II
• POL279. Political Networks: Methods and Applications

Plant Sciences

• PLS120. Applied Statistics in Agricultural Science
• PLS205. Experimental Design and Analysis
• PLS206. Applied Multivariate Modeling in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• PLS298. Applied Statistical Modeling for Environmental Science 

Psychology

• PSC204A. Statistical Analysis of Psychological Experiments

Statistics

• STA130A. Mathematical Statistics
• STA130B. Mathematical Statistics
• STA131A. Introduction to Probability Theory
• STA135. Multivariate Data Analysis
• STA141. Statistical Computing
• STA242. Introduction to Statistical Programming

Other Davis Stats Resources

• The UC Davis Department of Statistics has a consulting service that is free for disseration-related statistical advice. You get a 1-hour meeting with a statistician to discuss your research and they will send you a write-up of their recommendations.
• The Davis R Users’ Group is an in-person and e-mail group for support in R programming, and its web page has a lot of R resources.