Courses and Textbooks 2022 Fall Classes

updated on June 28, 2022

Note: All textbooks are available at University Book Store. These are the books that have been selected, however changes may occur.

 

Actuarial Science — Fall 2022

ACTS:3080  MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE I (3 s.h.)
Instructor —  Josh Tong
Recommended Text --  Kellison, S.G., The Theory of Interest (Third Edition), 2009, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 125921544X or 978-1259215445.
Calculator Texas Instrument BAII Plus calculator required  (needed for SOA Exam FM)

ACTS:3110 ACTUARIAL EXAM P PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —   Tianrun Wang
Required Text —  None required

ACTS:4130  QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ACTUARIES (3 s.h.)

Section 0001
Instructor — Ambrose Lo
Required Text — 

ACTS:4280  LIFE CONTINGENCIES II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Elias Shiu
Recommended Text — Dickson, Hardy & Waters, Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 3rd ed.

ACTS:6990 READINGS IN ACTUARIAL SCIENCE (arr.) Instructor — TBD
Required Text — None required

Data Science Courses — Fall 2022

DATA:4890  Data Science Practicum (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —Sanvesh Srivastava
Recommended Text —  none

Statistics Courses — Fall 2022

STAT:1000 FIRST YEAR SEMINAR (1 s.h.)
Instructor — N.D. Shyamalkumar
Required Text —  None

STAT:1010 STATISTICS AND SOCIETY (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A04)
Instructor —  Max Sampson
Required Text — Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life by Bennett, Briggs, and Triola.  5th ed. Pearson.

STAT:1020  ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)

Lecture AAA (sections A11-A14)
Instructor — Robert Ankenmann
Required Text —Intro Stats, 6th Edition (2022) by DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, Pearson Publishing.  ICON Direct. 

Lecture BBB (sections B21-B24)
Instructor —  Robert Ankenmann
Required Text — Intro Stats, 6th Edition (2022) by DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, Pearson Publishing.  ICON Direct. 

Lecture CCC (sections C33-C36)
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text — Intro Stats, 6th Edition (2022) by DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, Pearson Publishing.  ICON Direct. 

Lecture DDD (sections D41-D44)
Instructor — Alex Liebrecht
Required Text — Intro Stats, 6th Edition (2022) by DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, Pearson Publishing.  ICON Direct. 

STAT:1030  STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS (4 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A20)
Instructor —   Joseph Lang
Required Text — None required.

STAT:2010  STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)  Lecture AAA
Lecture AAA, (section A11-A14)
Instructor —  Erin Post
Required Text — Basic Practice of Statistics, 9th ed. Moore, Notz, Fligner

STAT:2020   PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (3 s.h.)
Lecture BBB (sections B21-B26)
Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — Unizen electronic text through ICON

STAT:3100 INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text —  Probability and Statistical Inference (10th Edition), Hogg, Tanis and Zimmerman, Pearson.

STAT:3120  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —Boxiang Wang
Recommended Text— Tanis & Hogg, A Brief Course in Mathematical Statistics, 2008, Prentice Hall.

STAT:3200  APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text - None

Section 0002
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text - None

STAT:3510  BIOSTATISTICS (3 s.h.) 
Lecture AAA (A11, A12, A13, A14)
Instructor —  Matt Bognar Required Text — Statistics for the Life Sciences 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780321989581 Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — Statistics for the Life Sciences 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780321989581, ICON Direct

Lecture BBB (B21, B22, B23, B24)
Instructor —  Osnat Stramer Required Text — Statistics for the Life Sciences 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780321989581 Instructor — Osnat Stramer
Required Text — Statistics for the Life Sciences 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780321989581, ICON Direct

STAT:4100   MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I (3 s.h.) Section 0001
Instructor — Lan Luo
Required Text — Hogg, McKean and Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics,   8th ed.

STAT:4520  BAYESIAN STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Joyee Ghosh
Required Text — https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781351030144/probability-bayesian-modeling-jim-albert-jingchen-hu  Students can freely access the online version of the required textbook here: https://bayesball.github.io/BOOK/probability-a-measurement-of-uncertainty.html

STAT:4540 STATISTICAL LEARNING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava
Recommended Text — An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, Springer ISBN-13: 978-1461471370

STAT:4560 STATISTICS FOR RISK MODELING (NEW)
Section 0001
Instructor — Ambrose Lo
No textbooks required.

STAT:5090   ALPHA Seminar (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Recommended Text —  none

STAT:5100  STATISTICAL INFERENCES I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Josh Tong
Recommended Text — Casella & Berger, Statistical Inference, 2nd. ed.

STAT:5200  APPLIED STATISTICS I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Joyee Ghosh
Recommended: Introduction to Regression Modeling, Abraham and Ledolter 

STAT:5400   COMPUTING IN STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Boxiang Wang
Required Text —  None required

STAT:6300   PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — N. D. Shyamalkumar
Required Text — Markov Chains and Mixing Times: Second Edition; ISBN: 978-1-4704-2962-1

STAT:6530   ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATICAL STATISTICS (3 s.h.) 
Section 0001
Instructor — Dale Zimmerman
Required Text — None

STAT:6990 READINGS IN STATISTICS (arr.)
An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.

STAT:7200  LINEAR MODELS (4 s.h.)
An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.
Section 0001
Instructor – Dale Zimmerman
Reqquired Text — Linear Model Theory with Examples and Exercises, Dale Zimmerman. Springer Publishing.

STAT:7990 READING RESEARCH (arranged)

An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.
Instructor - pending
Required Text — None required 

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    • If an instructor has not yet been hired
    • If the instructor has not yet been assigned to a course
    • If the course is new and still under development
    • If the textbook is new and still under development