The PhD specialization in Data Science is an option within the Statistics Department’s PhD program.  PhD students in Statistics can choose to do this specialization. ...

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The Ph.D. degree is awarded upon successful oral defense and deposit of an approved dissertation according to the rules of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences....

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Length of program: Six Residence Units Two semesters of STAT GR6105 (Consulting) and attendance in at least one of the departmental seminar series (GR9201 and GR9302) are required each semester....

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Students are required to take 7 courses (as specified below) from the core curriculum:

STAT GR6101, GR6102, GR6103 (Applied Statistics)

STAT GR6201, GR6202, GR6203 (Theoretical Statistics)

STAT GR6301, GR6302, GR6303 (Probability Theory)

STAT GR5264 (Stochastic Processes)

STAT GR6104 (Statistical Computing)

In the first semester, students typically take GR6101, GR6301, GR6201....

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