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STAT515

Fall 2026

STATISTICAL METHODS I

Instructor: Yen-Yi Ho

Office: LeConte 216A

Class Meetings:

Monday/Wednesday 9:40AM - 10:55AM

Classroom: LeConte 206

Dr. Ho's office Hours: Thursday at 16:30 PM - 17:30 PM, Friday at 11AM - 12PM or by appointment (LeConte 216A)

Email: hoyen@stat.sc.edu

Teaching Assistant: Alex Goebel

TA email: ajgoebel@email.sc.edu

TA office hours: Tuesday at 12PM -1 PM, Thursday at 12PM - 1 PM (LeConte 219A) or Virtual

Textbook:

1. An Introduction to Statistical Methods & Data Analysis (R. Lyman Ott and Michael Longnecker) 7th Edition (Required)

2. Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R by

Rafael A. Irizarry (Recommended)

3. Steve Schachterle's R Code

Resources:

1. Instruction for downloading R and R Studio .

2. This is Statistics.org

Annoucements:

Approximate course outline: (Lecture notes will be updated often)

Date	Weekly topic	Homework	R code	Reading
Week Aug 17	Syllabus Getting Started with R and R Studio Lecture 1: Describing Data (Part 1) CalendarSep	Homework 1 Homework1 Solution	Lab1.R	Ott & Ongnecker Chap 1, 2
Week Aug 24	Lecture 2: Describing Data (Part 2) Lecture 3: Sample Estimates Versus Population Measures	Quiz 1 Solution	Lab2.R Spy_or_not_draw.R	Ott & Ongnecker Chap 3, 4
Week Aug 31	Lecture 4: Probability Chap 4.1-4.3 Lecture 5: Counting Techniques Chap 4.1-4.5	Quiz 2 Solution Homework 1 Due Wednesday Sep 02 Homework 2		Ott & Ongnecker Chap 4
Week Sep 07	Sep 07: Labor Day (No class) Lecture 6: Binomial and Poisson Distribution Chap 4.6-4.8	Homework 2 Due Wednesday Sep 09 Homework 3		Ott & Ongnecker Chap 4
Week Sep 14	Lecture 7: Continuous Random Variables & The Normal Distribution Chap 4.9-4.10	Homework 2 Due Wednesday Sep 16 Homework 4
Week Sep 21	Lecture 8: QQ Plot Chap 4.9-4.10 Lecture 9: The Exponential Distribution	Homework 4 Due Wednesday Sep 23	Lab3.R
Week Sep 28	Exam 1 Review Practice Exam 1 List of Topics for Exam 1 Exam 1 (Sep 30 in class)
Week Oct 05	Oct 05: Mid-point of the semester Lecture 10: Sampling Distribution Chap 5.8-5.10 (Bootstrap) Lecture 11: Confidence Interval
Week Oct 12	Lecture 12: Chap 6.3 Lecture 13: Chap 6.4
Week Oct 19	Lecture 14: Chap 6.5 Lecture 15: Chap 6.6 - 6.7
Week Oct 26	Lecture 16: Chap 7.1-7.3 Lecture 17: Chap 7.4-7.5
Week Nov 02	Review Exam 2 Practice Exam 2 List of Topics for Exam 2 Exam 2 (Nov 4 in class)
Week Nov 9	Lecture 20: Lecture 21
Week Nov 16	Lecture 22
Week Nov 23	Nov 23 - 29 (Thanksgiving No classes)
Week Nov 30	Dec 04: Last day of class
Week Dec 7 -14	Final Exam	Dec 9 at 9:00AM