Stat 3850, Foundation of Statistics - FALL 2024

Instructor: Vahan Huroyan

Email: vahan (dot) huroyan (at) slu (dot) edu

Section Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50

Section Room: Tegeler Hall, 101

Office Hours: Ritter Hall 113:

Course Syllabus: [here]

Textbook: Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R, by Speegle and Clair


Announcements:

  • Lecture 1, Aug. 21: Probability basics (Section 2.1)
  • Lecture 2, Aug. 23: Conditional probability and independence (Section 2.3.1)
  • Lecture 3, Aug. 26: R basics (Chapter 1)
  • Lecture 4, Aug. 28: Simulations (Section 2.2)
  • Lecture 5, Aug. 30: Bayes' rule and conditioning (Section 2.3.3)
  • Lecture 6, Sep. 4: Counting arguments (Section 2.4)
  • Lecture 7, Sep. 6: Discrete random variables, probability mass functions (Section 3.1)
  • Lecture 8, Sep. 9: Expected value of a discrete random variable (Section 3.1)
  • Lecture 9, Sep. 11: Binomial random variable (Section 3.2)
  • Lecture 10, Sep. 13: Geometric random variable (Section 3.3)
  • Lecture 11, Sep. 16: Functions of random variable, Variance, Standard deviation (Sections 3.4, 3.5)

  • Homework:

  • HW 1: posted 09/02, due 09/13 ----
  • HW 2: posted 09/13, due 09/23 ----