STAT 515 Statistical Methods I (Spring 2026)

Class times: 10:05 - 11:20 am Tuesdays and Thursdays in Close-Hipp 502

Office hours: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Mondays and Wednesdays and 9:00 - 10:00 am Thursdays in LeConte College 216C.

TA office hour: Patrick Jin, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm and 2:30 - 3:30 pm on Tuesdays in LeConte College 111

Slides	Annotated	R code	eBook
Lec 1	Lec 1 annotated		Basics of sets Basics of probability
Lec 2	Lec 2 annotated		Counting rules
Lec 3	Lec 3 annotated		Conditional probability Independence Bayes' rule
Lec 4	Lec 4 annotated		Random variables Discrete random variables
Lec 5	Lec 5 annotated	Rstudio R code	Bernoulli and binomial distributions Hypergeometric distribution Sampling with versus without replacement
Lec 6	Lec 6 annotated		Continuous random variables
Lec 7	Lec 7 annotated		Normal distribution
End of Exam I material
Lec 8			Poisson and exponential distributions

Upload pdf of homework in Blackboard by 11:59 pm on the due date.

Homework	Topics	Due	Solutions
hw 1	Basics of sets, basic probability	Thursday, Jan 22	hw 1
hw 2	Counting, conditional probability, Bayes' rule, independence	Thursday, Jan 29	hw 2
hw 3	Random variables, expected value, variance, hypergeometric, binomial	Tuesday, Feb 10	hw 3
hw 4	Binomial, Normal probabilities and quantiles, quantile-quantile plots	Wednesday, Feb 18

Exams	Solutions
Exam I on Thursday, Feb 19th, One sheet of hand-written notes, one-sided, no calculators
Exam II on Tuesday, Apr 7th
Final Exam on Tuesday, May 5th, at 9:00 am

scatterplot showing pointwise confidence and prediction intervals in simple linear regression