Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Designed for physical and social sciences students who are interested in using statistics and its applications for forecasting and data-driven decisions and for life sciences and medical school students who are interested in modeling of historical data to predict outcomes. Introduction to state-of-art statistical methods that rely on historical data collected in past to forecast future outcomes. Coverage of models used for forecasting only one measurement type and models used to forecast several types of measurements simultaneously. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0