MATH 4720 (MSSC 5720) Statistical Methods Fall 2025
- The website is for Section-101 2 - 3:15 PM and Section-102 3:30-4:45 PM.
This schedule will be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.
| Week | Date | Topic | Materials | Reading | R Code | Homework | Quiz/Exercise | Exam/Project |
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| 1 | Mon, Aug 25 | Syllabus/Overview of Statistics |
🖥️ syllabus 🖥️ statistics and data |
Syllabus IS Ch1 GenAI Video |
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| Wed, Aug 27 | Statistical Studies and Data Collection; Data Type | IS Ch 2 | ✍️ HW 1 (due 9/5) | |||||
| 2 | Mon, Sep 1 | NO CLASS: Labor Day | ||||||
| Wed, Sep 3 | R Software and Computation |
🖥️ R and RStudio 🖥️ data type and structure |
IS Ch 3 | (data type and structure) | ||||
| 3 | Mon, Sep 8 | Summarizing Data: Centrality |
🖥️ data summary 👉histogram breaks 👉data extremes |
IS Ch 5 - 6 | (data graphics) | |||
| Wed, Sep 10 | Summarizing Data: Variation | IS Ch 5 - 6 | (data numerics) | ✍️ HW 2 (due 9/19) | ||||
| 4 | Mon, Sep 15 | Probability Fundamentals |
🖥️ probability 👉venn diagram |
IS Ch 7 - 8 | ||||
| Wed, Sep 17 | Conditional Probability, Independence, Bayes Formula | IS Ch 9 | ✍️ HW 3 (due 9/26) | ✅ Quiz 1 | ||||
| 5 | Mon, Sep 22 | Random Variables, Discrete Probability Distributions |
🖥️ distribution 👉binomial 👉poisson |
IS Ch 10 | (discrete distribution) | |||
| Wed, Sep 24 | Continuous Probability Distributions Activity: Match the Scenario to the Distribution | 👉normal | IS Ch 11 | (continuous distribution) | ✍️ HW 4 (due 10/3) | |||
| 6 | Mon, Sep 29 | Sampling Distributions | 🖥️ sampling-dist-clt | IS Ch 12 | (sampling distribution and CLT) | 📋 Exercise for Exam 1 | ||
| Wed, Oct 1 | Central Limit Theorem (CLT) | 👉CLT 👉Rolling dice |
IS Ch 13 | ✅ Quiz 2 | ||||
| 7 | Mon, Oct 6 | In-class Exam 1 | ✅ Take-home Exam 1 | |||||
| Wed, Oct 8 | Confidence Intervals |
🖥️ confidence interval 👉CI |
IS Ch 14 | (confidence interval) | ||||
| 8 | Mon, Oct 13 | Confidence Intervals Activity: How Much Do Students Sleep? | 👉Student-t | |||||
| Wed, Oct 15 | Hypothesis Testing |
🖥️ testing 👉testing |
IS Ch 16 | (testing) | ✍️ HW 5 (due 10/24) | |||
| 9 | Mon, Oct 20 | Hypothesis Testing | ||||||
| Wed, Oct 22 | Two Population Means: Matched Pairs | 🖥️ two samples | IS Ch 17 | (two samples) | ✍️ HW 6 (due 10/31) | |||
| 10 | Mon, Oct 27 | Two Population Means: Independent Samples Inference for One Population Variance |
🖥️ variances 👉chi-squared |
IS Ch 18 | (variances) | |||
| Wed, Oct 29 | Inference about Two Population Variances | 👉 f | ✍️ Extra credit! (due 10/31) ✍️ HW 7 (due 11/7) |
✅ Quiz 3 | ||||
| 11 | Mon, Nov 3 | Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Rationale | 🖥️ ANOVA | IS Ch 24 | (ANOVA data) | 📋 Exercise for Exam 2 | ||
| Wed, Nov 5 | Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Procedure | |||||||
| 12 | Mon, Nov 10 | In-class Exam 2 | ✅ Take-home Exam 2 | |||||
| Wed, Nov 12 |
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🖥️ correlation | IS Ch 27.1; IS Ch 27.2 | (correlation and regression) | ||||
| 13 | Mon, Nov 17 | Simple Linear Regression: Fitting and Inference |
🖥️ regression 👉 regression fitting |
IS Ch 27.3 - 27.4 | 📂 AI Project | |||
| Wed, Nov 19 | Simple Linear Regression: ANOVA approach | 👉 sampling distribution of coefficients | IS Ch 27.5 | |||||
| 14 | Mon, Nov 24 | Simple Linear Regression: Prediction Activity: Height vs. Shoe Size | IS Ch 27.6 | |||||
| Wed, Nov 26 | NO CLASS: Thanksgiving | ✍️ HW 8 | ||||||
| 15 | Mon, Dec 1 | Inference for Categorical Data | 🖥️ | IS Ch 19 | ||||
| Wed, Dec 3 | Inference for Categorical Data | IS Ch 20 | ✅ Quiz 4 | |||||
| 16 | Wed, Dec 10, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | In-class Final Exam (Sec101-2PM) | ||||||
| Fri, Dec 12, 8- 10 AM | In-class Final Exam (Sec102-3:30PM) |
I reserve the right to make changes to the schedule.