Statistics
Statistics
The Department of Statistics offers courses in the basic principles and techniques of probability and statistics, advanced theory and methods courses, courses in stochastic processes and methods, and courses statistical methods in finance.
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STAT GR5291 Advanced Data Analysis. 3 points.
Prerequisites: W4315 and either another statistics course numbered above the 4200 or permission of instructor.
Required for the major in statistics. Data analysis using a computer statistical package and selected exploratory data analysis subroutines. Topics include editing of data for errors, exploratory and standard techniques for one-way analysis of variance, linear regression, and two-way analysis of variance. Material is presented in case-study format
Spring 2018: STAT GR5291
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 5291 | 001/27566 | F 10:10am - 12:40pm 207 Mathematics Building |
Hammou ElBarmi | 3 | 63/100 |
Fall 2018: STAT GR5291
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 5291 | 001/11467 | F 6:10pm - 8:55pm Room TBA |
Demissie Alemayehu | 3 | 0/275 |
STAT GU4001 Introduction to Probability and Statistics. 3 points.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums.
A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.
Spring 2018: STAT GU4001
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 4001 | 001/61149 | T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm 501 Northwest Corner |
David Rios | 3 | 131/150 |
Fall 2018: STAT GU4001
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 4001 | 001/17345 | T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Room TBA |
David Rios | 3 | 64/120 |
STAT 4001 | 002/65467 | M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Room TBA |
David Rios | 3 | 83/120 |
STAT GU4204 Statistical Inference. 3 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement, BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended.
Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.
Spring 2018: STAT GU4204
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 4204 | 001/65537 | M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm 413 Kent Hall |
Gabriel Young | 3 | 61/71 |
STAT 4204 | 002/16672 | Sa 1:10pm - 3:55pm 207 Mathematics Building |
Dan Wang | 3 | 16/50 |
Fall 2018: STAT GU4204
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 4204 | 003/24240 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Room TBA |
Thibault Vatter | 3 | 55/55 |
STAT GU4231 Survival Analysis. 0 points.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent.
Survival distributions, types of censored data, estimation for various survival models, nonparametric estimation of survival distributions, the proportional hazard and accelerated lifetime models for regression analysis with failure-time data. Extensive use of the computer.
Spring 2018: STAT GU4231
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 4231 | 001/69571 | M W 6:10pm - 7:25pm 329 Pupin Laboratories |
Michael Shnaidman | 0 | 2/25 |
STAT GU4282 Linear Regression and Time Series Methods. 3 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent.
A one semester course covering: simple and multiple regression, including testing, estimation, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Linear time series models. Auto-regressive, moving average and ARIMA models. Estimation and forecasting with time series models. Confidence intervals and prediction error. Students may not receive credit for more than two of STAT W4315, W4437, and W4440. Satisfies the SOA VEE requirements in regression and in time-series.
Spring 2018: STAT GU4282
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 4282 | 001/62786 | M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm 627 Seeley W. Mudd Building |
Flavio Bartmann | 3 | 42/50 |
Fall 2018: STAT GU4282
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 4282 | 001/20411 | T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Room TBA |
Flavio Bartmann | 3 | 19/75 |
STAT UN1001 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning. 3 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement, BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
A friendly introduction to statistical concepts and reasoning with emphasis on developing statistical intuition rather than on mathematical rigor. Topics include design of experiments, descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, probability, chance variability, sampling, chance models, and tests of significance.
Spring 2018: STAT UN1001
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 1001 | 001/25358 | M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm 209 Havemeyer Hall |
Guy Cohen | 3 | 60/76 |
STAT 1001 | 002/12964 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm 517 Hamilton Hall |
Ronald Neath | 3 | 42/86 |
STAT 1001 | 003/73693 | T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm 602 Hamilton Hall |
Ronald Neath | 3 | 58/86 |
Fall 2018: STAT UN1001
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 1001 | 001/21309 | M W 10:10am - 11:25am Room TBA |
3 | 35/86 | |
STAT 1001 | 002/26170 | T Th 8:40am - 9:55am Room TBA |
Guy Cohen | 3 | 67/86 |
STAT 1001 | 003/72558 | M W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Room TBA |
Anthony Donoghue | 3 | 21/86 |
STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics. 3 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement, BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
Prerequisites: intermediate high school algebra.
Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, analysis of variance, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Practical experience with statistical software. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.
Spring 2018: STAT UN1101
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 1101 | 001/65180 | M W 11:40am - 12:55pm 614 Schermerhorn Hall |
Banu Baydil | 3 | 65/86 |
STAT 1101 | 002/70784 | T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm 207 Mathematics Building |
Banu Baydil | 3 | 72/86 |
STAT 1101 | 003/67797 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm 310 Fayerweather |
Anthony Donoghue | 3 | 55/86 |
Fall 2018: STAT UN1101
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 1101 | 001/11720 | M W 8:40am - 9:55am Room TBA |
Banu Baydil | 3 | 23/86 |
STAT 1101 | 002/27499 | T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Room TBA |
Banu Baydil | 3 | 71/86 |
STAT 1101 | 003/15050 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Room TBA |
Ha Nguyen | 3 | 37/86 |
STAT UN1201 Calculus-Based Introduction to Statistics. 3 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement, BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).
Prerequisites: one semester of calculus.
Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood estimation. Serves as the pre-requisite for ECON W3412.
Spring 2018: STAT UN1201
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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STAT 1201 | 001/63271 | T Th 10:10am - 11:25am 601 Fairchild Life Sciences Bldg |
David Rios | 3 | 46/54 |
STAT 1201 | 002/70918 | M W 8:40am - 9:55am 602 Hamilton Hall |
Joyce Robbins | 3 | 79/86 |
STAT 1201 | 003/29709 | T Th 8:40am - 9:55am 207 Mathematics Building |
Joyce Robbins | 3 | 83/86 |
STAT 1201 | 004/11251 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm 312 Mathematics Building |
Sheela Kolluri | 3 | 56/86 |
Fall 2018: STAT UN1201
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
STAT 1201 | 001/28764 | M W 8:40am - 9:55am Room TBA |
Joyce Robbins | 3 | 70/86 |
STAT 1201 | 002/75041 | T Th 8:40am - 9:55am Room TBA |
Joyce Robbins | 3 | 86/86 |
STAT 1201 | 003/12543 | M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Room TBA |
Banu Baydil | 3 | 86/86 |
STAT 1201 | 004/10709 | T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Room TBA |
Sheela Kolluri | 3 | 36/86 |
STAT W4201 Advanced Data Analysis. 3 points.
Prerequisites: W4315 and either another statistics course numbered above the 4200 or permission of instructor.
Required for the major in statistics. Data analysis using a computer statistical package and selected exploratory data analysis subroutines. Topics include editing of data for errors, exploratory and standard techniques for one-way analysis of variance, linear regression, and two-way analysis of variance. Material is presented in case-study format
STAT W4315 Linear Regression Models. 3 points.
Prerequisites: STAT W3000 or the equivalent and STAT W3659 or the equivalent.
Corequisites: MATH V2110, V1101, and V1102
Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression including testing, estimation and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, fixed effects ANOVA and ANCOVA models, nonlinear regression, multiple comparisons, co-linearity and confounding, model selection. Emphasis on geometric approach to the theory and computer use to analyze data