Data science is a multidisciplinary field that uses statistics, mathematics, and computer science in order to extract significant information from various forms of data. Over the last decade it has become a very crucial topic for many industries: finance, insurance, healthcare, energy, web analytics, cybersecurity are some of them among many others.

The list of possible elective courses in this specialized area is not limited to the list below; and the list is expanded on a continuing basis; courses not in the list can be accepted as elective subject to the approval of the student's adviser.

Possible Elective Courses @ METU
  • IAM526 - Time Series Applied to Finance
  • IAM528 - Markov Decision Processes
  • IAM530 - Elements of Probability and Statistics
  • IAM557 - Statistical Learning and Simulation
  • IAM757 - Special Topics: Monte Carlo Methods in Finance and Insurance
  • IAM760 - Special Topics: Model Order Reduction
  • IAM768 - Special Topics: Methods and Applications of Uncertainty Quantification
  • IAM771 - Special Topics: Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
  • CENG514 - Data Mining
  • CENG561 - Artificial Intelligence
  • CENG562 - Machine Learning
  • CENG574 - Statistical Data Analysis
  • CENG770 - Advanced Data Mining
  • CENG793 - Deep Learning
  • CENG785 - Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Strategies
  • CENG793 - Advanced Deep Learning
  • IS503 - Data Base Concepts and Applications
  • IS580 - Knowledge, Discovery and Mining
  • IS787 - Big Data
  • MMI727 - Deep Learning : Methods and Applications
  • ECON507 - Econometric Methods I
  • ECON508 - Econometric Methods II
  • ECON645 - Applied Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
  • ECON680 - Time Series Econometrics
  • ECON685 - Topics in Time Series Econometrics
  • BA6505 - Applied Regression Analysis
  • BA6506 - Applied Multivariate Analysis
  • BA6507 - Applied Time Series and Panel Data Analysis
  • STAT525 - Regression Theory and Methods
  • STAT559 - Applied Multivariate Analysis
  • STAT560 - Logistic Regression Analysis
  • STAT561 - Panel Data Analysis
  • STAT562 - Univariate Time Series Analysis
  • STAT563 - Multivariate Time Series Analysis
  • STAT564 - Advanced Statistical Data Analysis
  • STAT612 - Advanced Topics in Time Series Analysis
  • STAT620 - Bayesian Inference
  • STAT728 - Joint Analysis of Mixed Discrete Continuous Data: Methods and Applications
  • STAT729 - Modern Data Analysis: From Hidden Markov Models to Statistical Learning
  • IE460 - Introduction to Data Mining
  • EE583 - Pattern Recognition

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16/02/2020 - 17:09