Course Offerings & Textbooks- Fall 2013

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

View Actuarial Science course, instructor and textbook (required and recommended). Listed below Statistics Courses.
View Statistics courses, instructor and textbook (required and recommended).

Statistics Courses — Fall 2013


STAT:1010 (22S:002) STATISTICS AND SOCIETY (3 s.h.)
Lecture AAA (sections A01-A04)
Instructor — Amy M. Johnson
Recommended Text — Bennett, Briggs & Triola, Statistical Reasoning, 3rd ed.

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

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

Lecture CCC (sections C21-C38)
Instructor — Mary Russo
Required Text — Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics, 4th ed.

Section SCA (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-SCD)
Instructor — Matt Bognar
Required Text — Moore, McCabe, Duckworth & Sclove, The Practice of Business Statistics, 3rd ed.

Section SCE (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, 4th ed.

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, 5th edition, 2011, Wiley

Lecture BBB (sections B21-B26)
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text — Montgomery and Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 5th edition, 2011, Wiley

STAT:3100 (22S:130) INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — R. Russo
Required Text —  Probability and Statistical Inference (8th Edition), Hogg and Tanis, Pearson.

Section 0002
Instructor —  Woosuk Kim
Required Text — Probability and Statistical Inference (8th Edition), Hogg and Tanis, Pearson.

STAT:3120 (22S:120) PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Erning Li
Required Text — Tanis & Hogg, A Brief Course in Mathematical Statistics, 2008, Prentice Hall.

STAT:3200 (22S:152) APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Zhiyun Gong
Required Text — Applied Regression Analysis, Linear Models and Related Methods 2nd ed., Fox, (Sage Publications)
Suplemental text: 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 —  Erning Li
Required Text —  An Introduction to Biostatistics, 2nd edition, by Thomas Glover and Kevin Mitchell, 2008, Waveland Press.

Lecture BBB (sections B21, B22, B23, B24)
Instructor — Woosuk Kim
Required Text — Principles of Biostatistics, 2nd ed., Pagano & Gauvreau.

Lecture CCC (sections SCA, SCB, SCC, SCD)
Instructor — Joyee Ghosh
Required Text — Principles of Biostatistics, 2nd ed., Pagano & Gauvreau.

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

Section 0002
Instructor — Zhiyun Gong
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 — Aixin Tan
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, 4th ed.

STAT:4510 (22S:150) REGRESSION, TIME SERIES, AND FORECASTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — To be determined.
Required Text — Frees, E. W. (2010). Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications. Cam-
bridge 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 — Joe Lang
Required Text — none required

STAT:5101 (22S:193) STATISTICAL INFERENCE I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Luke Tierney
Required Text — Statistical Inference, 2nd ed. Casella and Berger

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

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

STAT:6220 (22S:173)  STATISTICAL CONSULTING (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Rhonda DeCook
Required Text —  None required

STAT:6300 (22S:195)  PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Ralph Russo
Required Text — Introduction to Probability Models 10th ed., Sheldon M. Ross

STAT:6510 (22S:162)  APPLIED GENERALIZED REGRESSION (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Joe Lang
Required Text —  None required

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 (1998). Asymptotic Statistics. Cambridge University Press.

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 – Jian Huang
Required Text — A First Course in Linear Model Theory, Nalini Ravishanker and Dipak K. Dey, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.

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

Section 0002
Instructor - pending
Required Text —  None required

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 ANALYSIS (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Kun-Sik Chan
Required Text — Time Series Analysis with Applications in R. By Cryer and Chan (2008).
Time Series Analysis, By Hamilton (1994).

STAT:7990 (22S:299) READING RESEARCH (arr.)
An instructor number and approval required for registration in this course.


Actuarial Science — Fall 2013

ACTS:1001 (22S:28) INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR ON ACTUARIAL SCIENCE (1 s.h.) Section 0001
Instructor — N.D. Shyamalkumar

ACTS:3080 (22S:180) MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE I (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Larry O'Brien
Required Text -- Kellison, S.G., The Theory of Interest  (3rd Ed.), 2009, McGraw-Hill
Recommended Text -- Ruckman, C.; & Francis, J., Financial Mathematics (2nd Ed.), 2005, BPP Professional Education

ACTS:3110 (22S:188) ACTUARIAL EXAM P/1 PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Rebecca Chen
Required Text —  None required

ACTS:3210 (22S:189) ACTUARIAL EXAM FM/2 PREPARATION (1 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Jinbo Qiu
Required Text —  None required

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

ACTS:4130 (22S:174) QUANTITATIVE MEHTODS FOR ACTUARIES (3 s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Larry O'Brien
Required Text — McDonald, Derivatives Markets, 3rd ed.
Recommended Text — McDonald, Student Solutions Manual for Derivatives Markets, 3rd 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.
Recommended Text — Cunningham, Herzog and London, Models for Quantifying Risks, 5th 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 TOPICS IN ACTUARIAL SCIENCE/ FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS (arr s.h.)
Section 0001
Instructor — Qihe Tang
Text — Provided by the Department
Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance by Paul Embrechts, Claudia Klüppelberg, Thomas Mikosch