Course Offerings & Textbooks, Fall 2015

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

Statistics Courses — Fall 2015

STAT:1010 (22S:002) STATISTICS AND SOCIETY (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A04)
Instructor — Ralph Russo
Required Text — Moore and Notz, Statistics Concepts and Controversies, ISBN-13: 978-1464125669, W. H. Freeman; Eighth Edition edition (November 9, 2012)

STAT:1020 (22S:025) ELEMENTARY STATISTICS AND INFERENCE (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A11-A14)
Instructor — Sheila Barron
Required Text — Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics, 4th ed.

Lecture BBB (sections B21-B24)
Instructor — Robert Ankenmann
Required Text — Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics, 4th ed.

Lecture CCC (sections C31C38)
Instructor — Mary Russo
Required Text — Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics, 4th ed.

Section 0100 (stand-alone section; no additional lecture is required)
Instructor — Mary Russo
Required Text — Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics, 4th ed.

STAT:1030 (22S:008) STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS (4 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A22)
Instructor — Matt Bognar

Supplemental Text (not required to purchase)— Moore, McCabe, Duckworth & Sclove, The Practice of Business Statistics, 3rd ed.

Section 0100 (stand-alone section; no additional lecture is required)
Instructor — R. Russo
Required Text — Moore, McCabe, Duckworth & Sclove, The Practice of Business Statistics, 3rd ed.

STAT:2010 (22S:030) STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text — Moore, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th ed. (CD not required)

STAT:2020 (22S:039) PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A11-A16)
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text — Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 6th edition, 2013, Wiley

Lecture BBB (sections B21-B26)
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text — Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 6th edition, 2013, Wiley

STAT:3100 (22S:130) INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Ralph Russo
Required Text — Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 5th Edition. Elevier Academic Press.
Section 0002

Instructor — Saeid Amiri
Required Text — Probability and Statistical Inference (9th Edition), Hogg, Tanis and Zimmerman, Pearson.

STAT:3120 (22S:120) PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Erning Li
Supplemental text (not required) — Tanis & Hogg, A Brief Course in Mathematical Statistics, 2008, Prentice Hall.

STAT:3200 (22S:152) APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —Erning Li
Supplemental text (not required)— Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Fox, (Sage Publications)
Supplemental text (not required)— An R Companion to Applied Regression, 2nd Edition, by John Fox

STAT:3510 (22S:101) BIOSTATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (A11, A12, A13, A14)
Instructor — Michelle Larson
Required Text — Principles of Biostatistics, 2nd Edition, Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreau, 2000, Duxbury/Thomson Learning.

Lecture BBB (sections B21, B22, B23, B24)
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text — An Introduction to Biostatistics, Thomas Glover and Kevin Mitchell, 2015, Waveland Press.Ed. 3. Note- 3rd edition is going to be available after July 1, 2015.

Lecture CCC (sections C31, C32, C33, C34)
Instructor — Michelle Larson
Required Text — Principles of Biostatistics, 2nd Edition, Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreau, 2000, Duxbury/Thomson Learning.

STAT:4100 (22S:153) MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text — Hogg, McKean and Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 7th ed.

Section 0002
Instructor — Sanvesh Srivastava
Required Text — Hogg, McKean and Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 7th ed.

STAT:4101 (22S:154) MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Saeid Amiri
Required Text — Hogg, McKean & Craig, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 7th ed.

STAT:4200 (22S:105) STATISTICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Aixin Tan
Required Text — Moore, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th ed.(CD not required).

STAT:4510 (22S:150) REGRESSION, TIME SERIES, AND FORECASTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Michelle Larson
Required Text — Frees, E. W. (2010). Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

STAT:4520 (22S:138) BAYESIAN STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Kate Cowles
Required Text — Cowles, Applied Bayesian Statistics With R and OpenBUGS Examples (Springer Texts)

STAT:5090 (22S:170) ALPHA SEMINAR (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Dale Zimmerman
Required Text — none required

STAT:5100 (22S:193) STATISTICAL INFERENCE I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Luke Tierney
Recommended Text — Casella & Berger, Statistical Inference, 2nd. ed.

STAT:5200 (22S:164) APPLIED STATISTICS I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Joyee Ghosh
Required Text — Required: Introduction to Regression Modeling, Abraham and Ledolter

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STAT:5400 (22S:166) COMPUTING IN STATISTICS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Kate Cowles
Required Text — None required

STAT:6300 (22S:195) PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Osnat Stramer
Required Text — Introduction to Probability Models 11th ed., Sheldon M. Ross

STAT:6990 (22S:197) READINGS IN STATISTICS (arr.)

An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.

STAT:7100 (22S:253) ADVANCED INFERENCE I (3 s.h.)
Section 001
Instructor — Kung-Sik Chan
Required Text —van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics

STAT:7190 (22S:291) SEMINAR: MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS (arr.)
Section 0001
Instructor - pending
Required Text — None required

STAT:7200 (22S:255) LINEAR MODELS (4 s.h.)
An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.
Section 0001
Instructor – Dale Zimmerman

Required Text — A Primer on Linear Models, John F. Monahan, CRC Press

Recommended Text — Matrix Analysis for Statistics, 2nd ed. James R. Schott, Wiley Interscience

STAT:7290 (22S:295) SEMINAR: APPLIED STATISTICS (arr.)
An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.
Section 0001 GEEMap Seminar
Instructor - Kate Cowles
Required Text — None required

Section 0002
Instructor - pending
Required Text — None required

An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.

STAT:7300 (22S:203) FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — N.D. Shyamalkumar
Required Text — Durrett, Rick. Probability: Theory and Examples - Fourth Edition

STAT:7560 (22S:235) TIME SERIES ANALSIS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Kung-Sik Chan
Required Text — Non-Linear Time Series: Adynamical System Approach, Howell Tong, Oxford Science Publications

Actuarial Science — Fall 2015

ACTS:3080 (22S:180) MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE I (3 s.h.)

Instructor — Tang
Recommended Text -- Kellison, S.G., The Theory of Interest (3rd Ed.), 2009, McGraw-Hill
Required Text -- Ruckman, C.; & Francis, J., Financial Mathematics (2nd Ed.), 2005, BPP Professional Education

ACTS:3110 (22S:188) ACTUARIAL EXAM P PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — TA- Huan Zhang (Ambrose Lo)
Required Text — None required

ACTS:3210 (22S:189) ACTUARIAL EXAM FM PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor —TA- Huan Zhang (Qihe Tang)
Required Text — None required

ACTS:4110 (22S:199) ACTUARIAL EXAM MLC PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — TA- Xiao Wang (Elias Shiu)
Required Text — None required

ACTS:4130 (22S:174) QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ACTUARIES (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Ambrose Lo
Recommended Text — Dickson, Hardy & Waters, Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 2nd ed.

Recommended Text — Dickson, Hardy & Waters, Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 2nd ed.

ACTS:4280 (22S:182) LIFE CONTINGENCIES II (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Elias Shiu
Required Text — Dickson, Hardy & Waters, Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, 2nd ed.

ACTS:6160 (22S:171) TOPICS IN ACTUARIAL SCIENCE (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Elias Shiu
Required Text — McDonald, Derivatives Markets, 3rd ed.

ACTS:7730 (22S:273) ADVANCED TOPIS IN ACTUARIAL SCIENCE / FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS (arr.)
Instructor — Qihe Tang
Required Text —TBD