Statistics and Analytics Minor

Statistics and analytics is an excellent program for students interested in statistical data science, operations research, and actuarial science, as well as in fields such as business, economics, public policy and health, psychology, and biomedicine, where the decision and statistical sciences play an increasingly important role.

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Core Requirements
STOR 155	Introduction to Data Models and Inference ^{H, F}	3-4
or STOR 120	Foundations of Statistics and Data Science
STOR 305	Introduction to Decision Analytics ¹	3
or STOR 415	Introduction to Optimization
Three courses from among: ²		9
STOR 215	Foundations of Decision Sciences
or STOR 315	Discrete Mathematics for Data Science
or MATH 381	Discrete Mathematics
STOR 320	Methods and Models of Data Science
or STOR 520	Statistical Computing for Data Science
STOR 323	Ethics of Machine Learning in Society
STOR 435	Introduction to Probability ^H
or STOR 535	Probability for Data Science
STOR 445	Stochastic Modeling
STOR 455	Methods of Data Analysis ^H
STOR 471	Long-Term Actuarial Models
STOR 472	Short Term Actuarial Models
STOR 475	Healthcare Risk Analytics
STOR 512	Optimization for Machine Learning and Neural Networks
STOR 536	Advanced Methods in Probability
STOR 538	Sports Analytics
STOR 543	Dynamic Decision Analytics
STOR 555	Mathematical Statistics
STOR 556	Time Series Data Analysis
STOR 557	Advanced Methods of Data Analysis
STOR 565	Machine Learning
STOR 545	Stochastic Models and their Applications
STOR 566	Introduction to Deep Learning
STOR 572	Simulation for Analytics

H	Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

FY-Launch class sections may be available. A FY-Launch section fulfills the same requirements as a standard section of that course, but also fulfills the FY-SEMINAR/FY-LAUNCH First-Year Foundations requirement. Students can search for FY-Launch sections in ConnectCarolina using the FY-LAUNCH attribute.

¹: If both STOR 305 and STOR 415 are taken, students may use one course to fulfill the core requirement and one course to fulfill the elective requirement. Students may not enroll in STOR 305 if they have already taken STOR 415.
²: Some courses are 4-credits (see course description).