Course Listing for 2016-17Note: This is a TENTATIVE schedule. The course listings shown here are neither guaranteed, nor considered "final". Department Chairs may provide updated information regarding course offerings or faculty assignments throughout the year. Be sure to check this list regularly for new or revised information.
Course Title description Fall 2016 Winter 2017 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 STATS 005
STATS 5An introduction to the field of Data Science; intended for entering freshman and transfers. Padhraic Smyth
STATS 007
STATS 7Lecture, three hours; discussion, one to two hours. Basic inferential statistics including confidence intervals and hypothesis testing on means and proportions, t-distribution, Chi Square, regression and correlation. F-distribution and nonparametric statistics included if time permits. Only one course from Statistics 7, Statistics 8, Management 7, or Biological Sciences 7 may be taken for credit. No credit for Statistics 7 if taken after Statistics 67. Brigitte Baldi (2)
Brigitte Baldi (2)
TBD
Brigitte Baldi (2)
TBD
STATS 008
STATS 8Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Teaches introductory statistical techniques used to collect and analyze experimental and observational data for health sciences and molecular, cellular, environmental and evolutionary biology. Specific topics include exploration of data producing data, probability and sampling distributions, basic statistical inference for means, proportions, linear regression, and analysis of variance. Only one course from Statistics 8, Statistics 7, Management 7, Biological Sciences 7, or Social Ecology 13 may be taken for credit. Brigitte Baldi
Brigitte Baldi
Brigitte Baldi
STATS 067
STATS 67Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to the basic concepts of probability and statistics with discussion of applications to computer science. Sevan Gregory Gulesserian
Sevan Gregory Gulesserian (2)
Harold E Dyck
TBD
STATS 068
STATS 68Introduces key concepts in statistical computing. Techniques such as exploratory data analysis, data visualization, simulation, and optimization methods, will be presented in the context of data analysis within a statistical computing environment. Yaming Yu