Statistics Courses | 2025-2026 Academic Catalog | SIU

(University Core Curriculum) This course addresses the fundamental challenge of how to extract information from data. It focuses on a set of problems from statistics and data science such as describing the relationship between observations, testing hypotheses, estimating confidence, and prediction. Prerequisite: High School Algebra, some computer experience.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum Course) (Same as MATH 282) Designed to introduce beginning students to basic concepts, techniques, and applications of statistics. Topics include the following: organization and display of data, measures of location and dispersion, elementary probability, statistical estimation, and parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses. Prerequisite: MATH 108 with a grade of C or better. Satisfies University Core Curriculum Quantitative Reasoning requirement in lieu of 110 or 101.

Credit Hours: 3

This course examines loss models including severity models, aggregate loss, estimation, ratemaking and reserving, and estimation. This course prepares students for Exam FAM-S. Prerequisite: STAT 483 with a grade of C or better. Credit Hours: 3.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as MATH 473) Introduction to statistical analysis of data on lifetime, including hazard functions and failure distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing in life testing experiments with complete as well as censored data. Prerequisite: MATH 480 or MATH 483 or STAT 483 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as MATH 474) An introduction to time series: AR, MA and ARIMA models; estimation, time series models. Prerequisite: MATH 480 or STAT 480 or MATH 483 or STAT 483 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the central topics of modern probability including elementary stochastic processes; random variables and their properties; sum of independent random variables and the Central Limit Theorem; random walks; discrete time finite state Markov chains; applications to random number generators and image and signal processing. Also generating functions, conditional probability, expectation, moments. Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as MATH 483) Develops the basic statistical techniques used in applied fields like engineering, and the physical and natural sciences. Principal topics include probability; random variables; expectations; moment generating functions; transformations of random variables; point and interval estimation; tests of hypotheses. Applications include one-way classification data and chi-square tests for cross classified data. Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 4

(Same as MATH 484) Introduction to linear models and experimental design widely used in applied statistical work. Topics include linear models; analysis of variance; analysis of residuals; regression diagnostics; randomized blocks; Latin squares; factorial designs. Applications include response surface methodology and model building. Computations will require the use of a statistical package such as SAS. Prerequisite: MATH 221, and either MATH 483 or STAT 483, with grades of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as MATH 485) Introduction to sampling methods and categorical data analysis widely used in applied areas such as a social and biomedical sciences and business. Sampling methods topics include: simple random and stratified sampling; ratio and regression estimators. Categorical data analysis topics include: contingency tables; loglinear models; logistic regression; model selection; use of a computer package. Prerequisite: MATH 483 or STAT 483 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as MATH 486) This course covers Statistical Computing Software packages such as R and SAS; helps prepare students for SAS certification. Topics include obtaining and analyzing output for regression, experimental design, and generalized linear models. Prerequisites: MATH 484 or STAT 484, and CS 202 both with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3