Courses and Textbooks, Spring 2021

Statistics Courses -Spring 2021

Note: All textbooks are available at University Book Store.

STAT:1010 STATISTICS AND SOCIETY (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A04)
Instructor — Colin Lewis-Beck

Required Text —  Bennett and Briggs, Statistical Reasoning for Everyday life, ISBN-13: 978-0134494043, Pearson Publications; 5th Edition 

STAT:1020 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A11-A14)
Instructor — Robert Ankenmann
Required Text — De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 5th ed.

Lecture BBB (sections B21-B26)
Instructor —  Alex Liebrecht
Recommended Text — De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 5th ed.

Lecture CCC (sections C31- C36)
Instructor —  Colin Lewis-Beck
Required Text — De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 5th ed.

STAT:1030  STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS (4 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A22)
Instructor — Blake Whitten
Required Text — Moore, McCabe, Duckworth & Sclove, The Practice of Business Statistics, 3rd ed., 2011.  ISBN 978-1429-2425-30

STAT:2010  STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001 (sections A11-A13)
Instructor — Kate Cowles
Required Text — Moore, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th ed. (CD not required)

STAT:2020  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA  
Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers,7th edition, 2019, Wiley- avialable by E-Book

Lecture BBB  Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 7th edition, 2019, Wiley- avialable by E-Book

STAT:3101 INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava

Required Text — Probability and Statistical Inference (10th Edition), Hogg, Tanis and Zimmerman, Pearson.

STAT:3120  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Joseph Lang
Required Text — None required

STAT:3200  APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Textbook— Optional- Applied Regression Analysis & Generalized Linear Models, 2nd Edition.  ISBN: 9780761930426

Section 0002
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava
Textbook— Optional- Applied Regression Analysis & Generalized Linear Models, 2nd Edition.  ISBN: 9780761930426

STAT:3210 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN & ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Erning Li 
Recommended Text — Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments, 9th edition, 2017, Wiley.

STAT:3510  BIOSTATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (A11, A12, A13, A14)
Instructor — Michelle Larson
Required — Not required; Required- Calculator capable of Statistical Functions (TI-84 recommended; contact instructor for approval of other calculators).

Lecture BBB (sections B21, B22, B23, B24)
Instructor —  Erning Li

Textbook- An Introduction to Biostatistics, 3rd edition, by Thomas Glover and Kevin Mitchell, 2015, Waveland Press.

Lecture CCC (C31, C32, C33, C34)
Instructor — Erning Li

Textbook- An Introduction to Biostatistics, 3rd edition, by Thomas Glover and Kevin Mitchell, 2015, Waveland Press.

STAT:4101 MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Boxiang Wang
Required Text — Hogg, McKean & Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 8th ed.

Section 0002
Instructor — Lan Luo
Required Text — Hogg, McKean & Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistic, 8th ed.

STAT:4200 STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Kate Cowles
Required Text — Moore, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th ed. (CD is not required)

STAT:4580  DATA VISUALIZATION AND DATA TECHNOLOGIES (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Luke Tierney
Required Text; None required

Recommended:  Kieran Healy (2018) Data Visualization: A practical introduction, Princeton http://socviz.co/

Paul Murrell (2009). Introduction to Data Technologies, Chapman & Hall/CRC.http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ItDT/

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (2016), R for Data Science, O’Reilly. http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

Claus O. Wilke (2019) Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O’Reilly, Inc.https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/

STAT:4890  DATA SCIENCE PRACTICUM (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text; None required

STAT:5101  STATISTICAL INFERENCE II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Joseph Lang
Required Text —  Casella & Berger, Statistical Inference, 2nd. ed.

STAT:5120  MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text —  Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Third Edition, Walter Rudin, McGraw Hill; Required Text - Introductory Real Analysis vy Domin. 1st ed.

STAT:5201 APPLIED STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Dale Zimmerman
Required Text —  Design and Analysis of Experiments, 2nd edition (2017) Angela Dean, Daniel Voss, Danel Draguljić.   Free download through the UI OpenSpringer link.

STAT:6220  STATISTICAL CONSULTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text —   None required.

STAT:6301  PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESES II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Osnat Stramer
Required Text —  None required.

STAT:6560  APPLIED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)

Section 0001
Instructor — Osnat Stamer
Required Text — Time Series Analysis with Applications in R  by Jonathan Cryer and Kung-Sik Chan. 2nd edition, published by Springer Verlag

STAT:6590  TOPICS IN STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text — TBD

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

STAT:7101 ADVANCED INFERENCE II (3 s.h.)
Section 001
Instructor — Jian Huang
Required Text —van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics, Cambridge University Press (1998)

STAT:7190 SEMINAR: MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS (arr.)
Section 0001
Instructor - pending
Required Text —  None required

STAT:7290 SEMINAR: APPLIED STATISTICS (arr.)
Section 0001
Instructor - Dale Zimmerman
Recommended Text —  Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports, Albert, J., Glickman, M.E., Swartz, T.B., Koning, R.H. (eds.), Chapman and Hall (2017).

Section 0002
Instructor - Montse Fuentes
Required Text —  None required

STAT:7390 SEMINAR: PROBABILITY (arr.)
Section 0001
Instructor - pending
Required Text —  None required

STAT:7400 COMPUTER INTENSIVE STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Luke Tierney
Recommended Text —  Geof H. Givens, Jennifer A. Hoeting (2005).  Computational Statistics, Wiley-Interscience.

Norman Matloff (2011). The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design, No Starch Press.

John Monahan (2011).  Numerical Methods of Statistics, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press.

STAT:7520 BAYESIAN ANALYSIS (arr.)
Section 0001
Instructor - Joyee Ghosh
Required Text —  Bayesian Data Analysis, Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dun- son, Aki Vehtari and Donald B. Rubin, Chapman & Hall/CRC Text in Statistical Science, 3rd ed.

 

Actuarial Science — Spring 2021

ACTS:3080 MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Michelle Larson
Book- None

Required: Texas Instruments BA-II Plus or BA-II Plus Professional calculator (approved by SOA; required for SOA FM exam)

ACTS:3210 ACTUARIAL EXAM FM PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —  Michelle Larson
Required Text —  None required

ACTS:4180 LIFE CONTINGENCIES I (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Elias Shiu
Required Text — Dickson, Hardy & Waters, 2020. Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 3rd ed.
Recommended Text — Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 3rd ed.

ACTS:4380 MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —  Elias Shiu

Required Text — McDonald, R.L. 2013. Derivative Markets (Third Edition), Pearson

Recommended Text — Lo, A., 2018. Derivative Pricing: A Problem-Based Primer, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press Financial Mathematics Series. ISBN: 9781138033351

Recommended Text — Berk, J. and DeMarzo, P. 2017. Corporate Finance, 4th Edition, Pearson

ACTS:6480  LOSS DISTRIBUTIONS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —  N.D. Shyamalkumar
Recommended Text — Klugman, Stuart A.; Panjer, Harry H.; Willmot, Gordon E. Loss Models: from Data to Decisions (4th edition). 2012.

ACTS:6580  CREDIBILITY AND SURVIVAL ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —  N.D. Shyamalkumar
Recommended Text — Klugman, Stuart A.; Panjer, Harry H.; Willmot, Gordon E., Loss Models: from Data to Decisions (4th edition). 2012.