Undergraduate Courses

STAT 182  Foundations of Statistics (First Offering: Spring 2017)
Credits 1. 1 Lecture Hours.
Elementary topics in statistics; data collection; design of experiments; confidence intervals, hypothesis testing; ethics in statistics; the role of statistics in industry, the health profession, and the sciences.
Prerequisite:
Major in statistics only.

STAT 201 Elementary Statistical Inference
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
(MATH 1342, 1442) Elementary Statistical Inference. Data collection, tabulation and presentation; elementary description of the tools of statistical inference; probability, sampling and hypothesis testing; applications of statistical techniques to practical problems. May not be taken for credit after or concurrently with any other course in statistics or SCMT 303. This is equivalent to MATH 1342 and MATH 1442 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

STAT 211 Principles of Statistics I
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Introduction to probability and probability distributions; sampling and descriptive measures; inference and hypothesis testing; linear regression, analysis of variance.
Prerequisite: MATH 152 or MATH 172.

STAT 212 Principles of Statistics II
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Design of experiments, model building, multiple regression, nonparametric techniques and contingency tables.
Prerequisite: STAT 211.

STAT 301 Introduction to Biometry
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Intended for students in animal sciences. Introduces fundamental concepts of biometry including measures of location and variation, probability, tests of significance, regression, correlation and analysis of variance which are used in advanced courses and are being widely applied to animal-oriented industry.
Prerequisite: MATH 141 or MATH 166 or equivalent.

STAT 302 Statistical Methods
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Intended for undergraduates in the biological sciences. Introduction to concepts of random sampling and statistical inference; estimation and testing hypotheses of means and variances; analysis of variance; regression analysis; chi-square tests.
Prerequisite: MATH 141 or MATH 166 or equivalent.

STAT 303 Statistical Methods
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Intended for undergraduates in the social sciences. Introduction to concepts of random sampling and statistical inference, estimation and testing hypotheses of means and variances, analysis of variance, regression analysis, chi-square tests.
Prerequisite: MATH 141 or MATH 166 or equivalent. 

STAT 307 Sample Survey Techniques
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Concepts of population and sample; the organization of a sample survey; questionnaire design. Basic survey designs and computation of estimates and variances.
Prerequisite: STAT 301 or STAT 302 or STAT 303 or SCMT 303.

STAT 404 Statistical Computing (First Offering: Fall 2017)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Statistical programming in R and SAS; random number generation; design of simulation studies; interactive and dynamic statistical graphics; parallel computing in statistics.
Prerequisite: STAT 212; junior or senior classification or approval of instructor.

STAT 406 Design and Analysis of Experiments (First Offering: Fall 2017)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Design fundamentals; completely randomized designs; blocking; factorial, nested, nested-factorial designs; incomplete designs; fractional factorial designs; confounding; general mixed factorials; split plot; analysis of covariance; crossover designs; power analysis, sample size determination.
Prerequisite: STAT 212; STAT 408.

STAT 407 Principles of Sample Surveys
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Principles of sample surveys and survey design; techniques for variance reduction; simple, stratified and multi-stage sampling; ratio and regression estimates; post-stratification; equal and unequal probability sampling.
Prerequisite: STAT 212.

STAT 408 Introduction to Linear Models
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Introduction to the formulation of linear models and the estimation of the parameters of such models, with primary emphasis on least squares. Application to multiple regression and curve fitting.
Prerequisites: STAT 212MATH 304. 

STAT 414 Mathematical Statistics I
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Introduction to the mathematical theory of statistics, including random variables and their distributions, expectation and variance, point estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.
Prerequisite: MATH 221MATH 251 or MATH 253.

STAT 415 Mathematical Statistics II
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Continuation of the mathematical theory of statistics, including sampling and limiting distributions, principles for statistical inference and inference for bivariate and categorical data.
Prerequisite: STAT 414.

STAT 426  Methods in Time Series Analysis (First Offering: Spring 2018)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Autocorrelation and spectral characteristics of univariate, autoregressive, and moving average models; identification, estimation and forecasting.
Prerequisite: STAT 408; STAT 415 or approval of instructor.

STAT 436 Multivariate Analysis and Statistical Learning (First Offering: Fall 2017)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Matrix algebra; random vectors; multivariate distributions; copulas; multivariate generalizations of classical testing; principle component analysis; discriminant analysis; clustering; multidimensional scaling; factor analysis; canonical analysis.
Prerequisite: MATH 304 or MATH 323; STAT 212; STAT 415 or equivalent.

STAT 438 Bayesian Statistics (First Offering: Spring 2018)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Analysis of scalar and vector-valued parameters; Bayesian linear models; Monte Carlo computational methods; prior elicitation; hypothesis testing and model selection; hierarchical models; selected advanced models; use of statistical packages such as WinBUGS, R or MATLAB.
Prerequisite: MATH 221; STAT 408 or equivalent.

STAT 445 Applied Biostatistics and Data Analysis (First Offering: Fall 2017)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Applications of regression methods in biostatistics; correlated data analysis; survival analysis; missing data techniques; use of the R programming language.
Prerequisite: STAT 212; STAT 408 or approval of instructor.

STAT 446 Statistical Bioinformatics (First Offering: Spring 2018)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Analysis of high-dimensional genomic and proteomic data using R; sequence analysis; genome-wide association studies; proteomics; array-based technologies; classification techniques.
Prerequisite: STAT 212; STAT 408 or approval of instructor.

STAT 459 Categorical Data Analysis (First Offering: Fall 2017)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Techniques for the analysis of categorical data; contingency table analysis; logistic regression; Poisson regression; loglinear models; analysis of ordinal data; use of computer software such as SAS or R.
Prerequisite: STAT 212; STAT 408 or equivalent.

STAT 482 Statistics Capstone. (First Offering: Spring 2018)
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Integration of statistical models, design, sampling, graphics, and computing for the analysis of real problems; planning, drafting, revising, and editing reports; ethics; principles of collaboration and communication.
Prerequisite: STAT 404; STAT 406; STAT 408 and senior classification.

STAT 485 Directed Studies
Credits 1 to 6. 1 to 6 Other Hours.
Special problems in statistics not covered by another course in the curriculum. Work may be in either theory or methodology.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

STAT 489 Special Topics in…
Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Lecture Hours.
Special Topics in… Selected topics in an identified area of statistics. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification or approval of department head. 

STAT 491 Research
Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Lecture Hours. 0 to 4 Lab Hours.
Research conducted under the direction of faculty members in statistics. May be taken four times for credit. Registration in multiple sections of this course is possible within a given semester provided that the per semester credit hour limit is not exceeded.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification or approval of instructor.


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