Relationship of STAT 535 to STAT 510 and STAT 554

• STAT 554, Applied Statistics, has a prerequite (a semester course on calculus-based probability and statistics) that many students outside of statistics, mathematics, and engineering lack, and is primarily intended for students who will subsequently take more advanced offerings from the Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics. STAT 535 will not assume a 300-level course in probability, and it will omit some of the rather specialized methods presented in STAT 554, so that more time can be spent on the ANOVA and regression methods which are so important to many researchers in the sciences who need to be able to conduct data analysis for their theses and dissertations.
• STAT 510, Statistical Foundations for Technical Decision Making, is intended primarily for students in public policy and other fields who desire some knowledge of statistics, but may not intend to become prepared to do their own data analysis. Compared to STAT 535, it focuses more on presenting and summarizing data from observational studies, as opposed to testing hypotheses and making inferences based on data from designed experiments. But there is a lot of overlap with 535 and 510. (Some students use 510 to become better prepared to take 535.) Perhaps it's fair to state that 535 is more intense, and requires more work, than 510.