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Stat 525  [ 3 ]  SAS Programming
Description: A detailed introduction to the SAS programming language. Topics covered include reading data, storing data, manipulating data, data presentation, graphing, and macro programming. SAS software will be used.
Prerequisite: Stat 345, 427
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
35546  Stat 525 001 1730-2000  ESCP    Sorell, M.

Stat 527  [ 3 ]  Advanced Data Analysis I
Description: Statistical tools for scientific research, including parametric and non-parametric methods for ANOVA and group comparisons, simple linear and multiple linear regression and basic ideas of experimental design and analysis. Emphasis placed on the use of statistical packages such as Minitab and SAS. Course cannot be counted in the hours needed for graduate degrees in Mathematics and Statistics.
Prerequisite: Stat 145
Semesters offered:  Fall
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
  Stat 527 001 MWF  1100-1150  ANTHO    Cancelled, .
  AOA Stat 427-001          
  Stat 527 002 MWF  1400-1450  DSH    Cancelled, .
  AOA Stat 427-002          
35813  Stat 527 003 TR  1100-1215  DSH    Christensen, R.

Stat 528  [ 3 ]  Advanced Data Analysis II
Description: A continuation of 527 that focuses on methods for analyzing multivariate data and categorical data. Topics include MANOVA, principle components, discriminant analysis, classification, factor analysis, analysis of contingency tables including log-linear models for multidimensional tables and logistic regression.
Prerequisite: 527

Stat 531  [ 3 ]  Statistical Genetics I
Description: A detailed examination of the statistical methods used in analyzing genetic data. Topics covered include the estimation of allele frequencies, testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, classical and complex segregation analysis, linkage analysis for Mendelian and complex diseases, and the detection of allelic association. Popular genetic software will be used for data analysis.
Prerequisite: Stat 345, 427
Semesters offered:  Alternate Falls

Stat 532  [ 3 ]  Statistical Genetics II
Description: A continuation of 531. Topics covered include statistical methods for describing variation in quantitative traits, methods of mapping and characterizing quantitative trait loci and other current topics in statistical genetics, including the analysis of microarray data and phylogenetic methods. Popular genetic software will be used for data analysis.
Prerequisite: Stat 531
Semesters offered:  Alternate Springs

Stat 534  [ 3 ]  Contingency Tables & Dependence Structures
Description: This course examines the use of log-linear models to analyze count data. It also uses graphical models to examine dependence structures for both count data and measurement data.
Prerequisite: Stat 345 and 527

Stat 538  [ 3 ]  Biostatistical Methods I for Public Health & Medical Sciences
Description: Covers basic statistical methods, including statistical summaries and inference. Methods of summarizing data include graphical displays and numerical summaries. Statistical inference includes hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Methods for continuous and categorical data are studied.
Prerequisite: B or better in Math 121
Semesters offered:  Fall
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
13810  Stat 538 001 TR  0930-1130  SOM2    Guindani, M.

Stat 539  [ 3 ]  Biostatistical Method II for Public Health & Medical Sciences
Description: Covers basic models used in the statistical analysis of studies in the medical sciences and public health field, with an emphasis on epidemiology. Linear regression, analysis of variance, logistic regression, and survival models are studied.
Prerequisite: Stat 538
Semesters offered:  Spring

Stat 540  [ 3 ]  Regression Analysis
Description: Simple regression and multiple regression. Residual analysis and transformations. Matrix approach to general linear models. Model selection procedures, nonlinear least squares, logistic regression. Computer applications.
Prerequisite: 527
Semesters offered:  Fall
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
13814  Stat 540 001 TR  1230-1345  DSH    Storlie, C.
  AOA Stat 440          

Stat 545  [ 3 ]  Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design
Description: A data-analytic course. Multifactor ANOVA. Principles of experimental design. Analysis of randomized blocks, Latin squares, split plots, etc. Random and mixed models. Extensive use of computer packages with interpretation, diagnostics.
Prerequisite: 540
Semesters offered:  Spring

Stat 546  [ 3 ]  Theory of Linear Models
Description: Theory of the Linear Models discussed in 440/540 and 445/545. Linear spaces, matrices, projections, multivariate normal distribution and theory of quadratic forms. Non-full rank models and estimability. Gauss-Markov theorem. Distribution theory for normality assumptions. Hypothesis testing and confidence regions.
Prerequisite: Stat 553, 545, linear algebra
Semesters offered:  Alternate Falls
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
33793  Stat 546 001 TR  1400-1515  HUM    Christensen, R.

Stat 547  [ 3 ]  Multivariate Analysis & Advanced Linear Models
Description: Hotelling T2, multivariate ANOVA and Regression, classification and discrimination, principal components and factor analysis, clustering, graphical and computational techniques, topics in linear models.
Prerequisite: Stat 546
Semesters offered:   Alternate Springs

Stat 553  [ 3 ]  Statistical Inference with Applications
Description: Transformations of univariate and multivariate distributions to obtain the special distributions important in statistics. Concepts of estimation and hypothesis testing in both large and small samples with emphasis on the statistical properties of the more commonly used procedures, including Students t-tests, F-tests and chi-square tests. Confidence intervals. Performance of procedures under non-standard conditions (i.e., robustness).
Prerequisite: Stat 561
Semesters offered:  Spring

Stat 556  [ 3 ]  Advanced Statistical Inference I
Description: Theory and methods of point estimation, sufficiency and its applications.
Prerequisite: Stat 553, 561 and Math 510.
Semesters offered:  Alternate Falls

Stat 557  [ 3 ]  Advanced Statistical Inference II
Description: Standard limit theorems, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and decision theory.
Prerequisite: Stat 556
Semesters offered:  Alternate Springs

Stat 561  [ 3 ]  Probability
Description: (Also offered as MATH 441.) Mathematical models for random experiments, random variables, expectation. The common discrete and continuous distributions with application. Joint distributions, conditional probability and expectation, independence. Laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Moment generating functions.
Prerequisite: Math 264
Semesters offered:  Fall
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
13819  Stat 561 001 TR  1400-1515  ORTG    Guindani, M.
  AOA Stat 461, Math 441          

Stat 562  [ 3 ]  Intermediate Probability
Description: Multivariate distributions and densities, transformations of random vectors, special multivariate distributions including the normal and multinominal, limit theorems for sequences of random variables, and topics from stochastic processes including random walks, Markov chains, Poisson processes, and Brownan motion.
Prerequisite: 561
Semesters offered:  Spring

Stat 565  [ 3 ]  Stochastic Processes with Applications
Description: Markov chains and processes with applications. Classification of states. Decompositions. Stationary distributions. Probability of absorption, the gambler's ruin and mean time problems. Queuing and branching processes. Introduction to continuous time Markov processes. Jump processes and Brownian motion.
Prerequisite: Stat 561
Semesters offered:  Offered Upon Demand

Stat 567  [ 3 ]  Advanced Probability
Description: (Also offered as Math 541.) A measure theoretic introduction to probability theory. Construction of probability measures. Distribution and characteristic functions, independence and zero-one laws. Sequences of independent random variables, strong law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Conditional expectation. Martingales.
Prerequisite: Math 563
Semesters offered:  Alternate Springs

Stat 569  [ (3, n ]  Selected Topics in Probability Theory
Description: (Credit: 3, no limit.) Also offered as Math 549.

Stat 570  [ 3 ]  Industrial Statistics
Description: Basic ideas of statistical quality control and improvement. Topics covered: Demings 14 points and deadly diseases, Pareto charts, histograms, cause and effect diagrams, control charts, sampling, prediction, reliability, experimental design, fractional factorials, Taguchi methods, response surfaces.
Prerequisite: Stat 345
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
33794  Stat 570 001 MWF  1400-1450  DSH    Zhang, G.
  AOA Stat 470          

Stat 572  [ 3 ]  Sampling Theory and Practice
Description: Basic methods of survey sampling; simple random sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, systematic sampling and general sampling schemes; estimation based on auxiliary information; design of complex samples and case studies.
Prerequisite: Stat 345
Semesters offered:  Alternate Falls

Stat 574  [ 3 ]  Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis & Logistics Regression
Description: A detailed overview of methods commonly used to analyze medical and epidemiological data. Topics include the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survivor function, models for censored survival data, the Cox proportional hazards model, methods for categorical response data including logistic regression and probit analysis, generalized linear models.
Prerequisite: 528 or 540

Stat 576  [ 3 ]  Multivariate Analysis
Description: Tools for multivariate analysis including multivariate ANOVA, principle components analysis, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, structural equations modeling, canonical correlations and multidimensional scaling.
Prerequisite: 528 or 540
Semesters offered:  Offered Upon Demand
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
33795  Stat 576 001 TR  0930-1045  DSH    Storlie, C.
  AOA Stat 476          

Stat 577  [ 3 ]  Introduction to Bayesian Modeling
Description: An introduction to Bayesian methodology and applications. Topics covered include: probability review, Bayes' theorem, prior elicitation, Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. The free software programs WinBUGS and R will be used for data analysis.
Prerequisite: Stat 561 and (527 or 540).
Semesters offered:  Alternate Springs

Stat 579  [ 3 (No ]  Selected Topics in Statistics
Description: (Credit: 3, no limit.)
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
  Stat 579 001 MWF  1100-1150  REGH    Cancelled, .
  Transition to Research          
35857  Stat 579 010 1500-1730  CAST    Brown, J.

Stat 581  [ 3 ]  Introduction to Time Series Analysis
Description: Introduction to time domain and frequency domain models of time series. Data analysis with emphasis on Box-Jenkins methods. Topics such as multivariate models; linear filters; linear prediction; forecasting and control.
Prerequisite: 561
Semesters offered:  Alternate Springs

Stat 582  [ 3 ]  Advanced Time Series Analysis
Description: Time series models in the time and spectral domains. Linear filters. Multivariate models. Autoregressive and moving average models. Filtering and prediction. Distribution theory. Design of experiments.
Prerequisite: Stat 581
Semesters offered:  Alternate Falls

Stat 585  [ 3 ]  Nonparametric and Robust Methods
Description: Statistical methods that are insensitive to the distribution of the data. Sign tests, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, rank tests including the Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Friedman tests. Robust estimation including M estimators, L estimators and R estimators.
Prerequisite: 561
Semesters offered:  Offered Upon Demand

Stat 586  [ 3 ]  Nonparametric Curve Estimation & Image Reconstruction
Description: Nonparametric regression, density estimation, filtering, spectral density estimation, image reconstruction and pattern recognition. Tools include orthogonal series, kernels, splines, wavelets and neural networks. Applications to medicine, engineering, biostatistics and economics.
Prerequisite: Stat 561
Semesters offered:  Offered Upon Demand

Stat 590  [ 3 ]  Statistical Computing
Description: A detailed examination of essential statistical computing skills needed for research and industrial work. Students will use S-Plus, Matlab and SAS to develop algorithms for solving a variety of statistical problems using resampling and simulation techniques such as the bootstrap, Monte Carlo methods and Markov chain methods for approximating probability distributions. Applications to linear and non-linear models will be stressed.
Prerequisite: 528

Stat 595  [ (1-3, ]  Problems
Description: (Credit: 1-3, no limit.)

Stat 597  [ (1-3, ]  Statistical Consulting Laboratory
Description: (Credit: 1-3, no limit.) Provides experience in statistical consulting and analysis of real data.
Prerequisite: 528
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
13835  Stat 597 001 ARR        Christensen, R.

Stat 599  [ 1-6 ( ]  Master's Thesis
Description: Offered on a CR/NC basis only.
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Call # Course Days Time Bldg. Room Instructor
13836  Stat 599 001 ARR        Christensen, R.
13838  Stat 599 002 ARR        Bedrick, E.
13844  Stat 599 003 ARR        Huzurbazar, A.
13847  Stat 599 004 ARR        Faculty, .
13849  Stat 599 005 ARR        Faculty, .

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