Spring 2024 Courses and Textbooks

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Updated on 10/17/2023

 

Actuarial Science — Spring 2024

ACTS:1001 INTROCTORY SEMINAR ON ACTUARIAL SCIENCE (1 s.h.)
Instructor -- Josh Tong
Required Text — none

ACTS:3080 MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor -- Josh Tong
Required Text — none

ACTS:4150 FUNDAMENTALS OF SHORT-TERM ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Josh Tong
Required Text — none  Optional Text -- Klugman, Panjer, and Willmot, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, 5th Edition, ISBN: 978-1-119-52378-9.

ACTS:4180 LIFE CONTINGENCIES I (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Elias Shiu
Optional Text — Dickson, Hardy and Waters, Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 3rd ed, 2020 (Cambridge University Press). ISBN: 978-1108478083
Optional Text — Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 3rd ed, 2020 (Cambridge University Press). ISBN: 978-1108747615

 

Data Science — Spring 2024

DATA:1015  INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Haley Jeppson
Recommended Text — Introduction to Data Science by Rafael A. Irizarry

DATA:4750  PROBABILISTIC STATISTICAL LEARNING (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava
Required Text — None

 

 

Statistics — Spring 2024

STAT:1010:0AAA STATISTICS AND SOCIETY (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Osnat Stramer
Required Text — ICON DIRECT: Bennett, Briggs and Triola, Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, 5th ed.

STAT:1015  INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Haley Jeppson
Required Text — None

STAT:1020:0001 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Haley Jeppson
Required Text -- ICON DIRECT: De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 6th ed, 2022 (Pearson).

STAT:1020:0AAA ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Robert Ankenmann
Required Text -- ICON DIRECT: MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText for Intro Stats -- 18 week Access Card 6th Edition. De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 6th ed, 2022 (Pearson). ISBN: 9780136806806           

STAT:1020:0BBB ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)
Instructor —  Matt Bognar
Optional Text — ICON DIRECT; De Veaux, Velleman, Bock, Intro Stats, 6th ed, 2022 (Pearson). ISBN: 978-014680686-8.

STAT:1030:0AAA STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Alex Liebrecht
Text — None required

STAT:2010 STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text — ICON DIRECT -- Moore, Notz and Fligner, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 9th ed., 2021, Macmillan Learning, 

STAT:2020:0AAA PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — ICON DIRECT: Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 7th ed, 2019 (Wiley- also available by eBook). ISBN: 978-1119585596

STAT:3101 INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Dale Zimmerman
Required Text — Hogg, Tanis and Zimmerman, Probability and Statistical Inference (10th Edition), Pearson. ISBN: 978-0135189399

STAT:3200 APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Andrew Thomas
Optional Text— Linear Models with R, 2nd Ed. Faraway, ISBN 9781439887332

STAT:3210 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Erning Li
Text — None required

STAT:3510:0AAA BIOSTATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text -- ICON DIRECT:  Glover and Mitchell, An Introduction to Biostatistics, 3rd ed, 2016, (Waveland Press).

STAT:3510:0BBB BIOSTATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Dale Zimmerman
Required Text -- Samuels, Witmer, and Schaffner. Statistics for Life Sciences, 9780321989581

STAT:4101 MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text — Hogg, McKean & Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 8th ed (Pearson- also available by eBook). ISBN: 9780134686998

STAT:4561 STATISTICS FOR RISK MODELING II  (3 s.h.)
Instructor — N.D. Shymalkumar
Required Text — Edward W. Frees, Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications, 2010, New York: Cambridge. ISBN: 9780521135962

STAT:4580 DATA VISUALIZATION AND DATA TECHNOLOGIES (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Luke Tierney
Recommended Texts: Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, 2018 (Princeton University Press). ISBN: 978-0691181615

Murrell, Introduction to Data Technologies, 2009 (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Science & Data Analysis). ISBN: 978-1420065176

Wickham and Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2017 (O’Reilly Media). ISBN: 978-1491910399

Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, 2019 (O’Reilly Media). ISBN: 978-1492031086

STAT:4750  PROBABILISTIC STATISTICAL LEARNING (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava
Required Text — None

STAT:5101 STATISTICAL INFERENCE II (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Kung-Sik Chan
Required Text —  Casella & Berger, Statistical Inference, 2nd ed (Cengage Learning). ISBN: 9780357753132

STAT:5201 APPLIED STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)

Instructor — Nathan Wilke
Required Text — Design and Analysis of Experiments, 2nd ed., by Angela Dean, Daniel Voss, and Danel Draguljic, published by Springer. 9783319522500

STAT:6220 STATISTICAL CONSULTING (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Recommended Text— The Elements of Data Analytic Style, https://leanpub.com/datastyle. And Nolan and Stoudt, Communicating with Data: The Art of Writing for Data Science(ebook available through UI library, accessible by all UI students.)

STAT:6560 APPLIED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Osnat Stramer
Text — No book is required. E-book: Time Series Analysis with Applications in R by Jonathan Cryer and Kung-
Sik Chan. SpringerLink (Online service) 2nd ed. 2008.

STAT:7400 COMPUTER INTENSIVE STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Instructor — Boxiang Wang
Recommended Texts — Givens and Hoeting, Computational Statistics, 2nd ed, 2012 (Wiley). ISBN: 978-0470533314

Matloff, The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design, 2011 (No Starch Press). ISBN: 978-1593273842

Monahan, Numerical Methods of Statistics, 2nd ed, 2011 (Cambridge University Press). ISBN: 978-0521191586