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 10 AM - 11 AM, Friday at 3PM - 4PM or by appointment (LeConte 216A)

Email: hoyen@stat.sc.edu

Teaching Assistant: TBA

TA office hours: TBA


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)

                             

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
Week Aug 17
 Syllabus

Calendar
Getting Started with R and R Studio

Chapter 1







Week Aug 24

Chapter  1.4-1.5
Chapter   2.1 -2.5














Week Aug 31











Week Sep 07
  Sep 07: Labor Day (No class)





Week Sep 14












Week Sep 21

















Week Sep 28











Week Oct 05
 





Week Oct 12
     Oct 12: Mid-point





Week Oct 19











Week Oct 26
 








Week Nov 02

 
 
  

 
Week Nov 9






Week Nov 16
 
 

  
 



Week Nov 23
  Nov 23 - 29 (Thanksgiving No classes)





 
Week Nov 30
  
Dec 04: Last day of class

Week Dec 7 -14
  Final Exam



Final Project Due