Econ 5023: Statistics for Data Science

Lecture	Date	Content	Evaluation
1	8/22/22	First Class Syllabus, Broad Introduction to class details
		Topic 1: Basic R
2	8/24/22	Basic R (I): Introduction to R and R Studio Part I	Quiz 1
3	8/29/22	Basic R (II): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II
4	8/31/22	Basic R (III): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II
5	9/5/22	Labor Day
6	9/7/22	Basic R (IV): Introduction to R and R Markdown Part III
		Topic 2: What do we do? Statistics and Forecasting/Prediction
7	9/12/22	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (I): Introduction to Statistics and Forecasting Part I
8	9/14/22	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Introduction to Forecasting Part 2
9	9/19/22	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Time Series (Various Features) details
10	9/21/22	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (IV) Naïve Decomposition and Forecasting Methods details
		Topic 3: Basic Probability Theory
11	9/26/22	Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (I) details
12	9/28/22	Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (II) details
		Topic 4: Probability and Distribution: Discrete Variables
13	10/3/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (I): Discrete Variables and Classification details
14	10/5/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (II): Discrete Variables and Classification details
15	10/10/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (III): Discrete Variable and Text Minining details
		Topic 5: Probability and Distribution: Continuous Variables
16	10/12/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (IV): Continuous Variables and Financial Risks details
17	10/17/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (V): Continuous Variables details
18	10/19/22	Midterm
19	10/24/22	Probability and Distribution Functions (VI): Financial Risks details
20	10/26/22	Parts of Distributions (I): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details
21	10/31/22	Parts of Distributions (II): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details
22	11/2/22	Parts of Distributions (III): Which one to focus on? Loss and Risk Functions; Mean and Everything else (distribution and moments) details
23	11/7/22	Parts of Distributions (IV): Applications of moments and distribution details
		Topic 6: Computational Statistics and Parametric Distributions
24	11/9/22	Computational Statistics I: Monte Carlo Simulation details
25	11/14/22	Parametric Distribution and Monte Carlo Simulation: Discrete, Binomial Distribution details
26	11/16/22	Parametric Distributions: Uniform and Normal Distributions details
27	11/21/22	Parametric Distributions: Continuous details
28	11/23/22	Thanksgiving
		Topic 7: Hypothesis Testing
29	11/28/22	Computational Statistics II: Bootstrap (Optional)
30	11/30/22	Hypothesis Testing: Introduction details
31	12/5/22	Hypothesis Testing details
32	12/7/22	Hypothesis Testing: Introduction and Test of Mean details
	12/15/2020	Final