| Lecture | Date | Content | Evaluation |
| 1 | 8/24/20 | First Class Syllabus, Broad Introduction to class details | |
| Topic 1: Basic R | |||
| 2 | 8/26/20 | Basic R (I): Introduction to R and R Studio Part I | Quiz 1 |
| 3 | 8/31/20 | Basic R (II): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II | 1. Quiz 2; Complete Datacamp course, except "Factor"; |
| 4 | 9/2/20 | Basic R (III): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II | |
| 5 | 9/7/20 | Labor Day | |
| 6 | 9/9/20 | Basic R (IV): Introduction to R and R Markdown Part III | PS1 (PDF); PS1 (R Markdown); PS1 More examples (R Markdown) |
| Topic 2: What do we do? Statistics and Forecasting/Prediction | |||
| 7 | 9/14/20 | Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (I): Introduction to Statistics and Forecasting Part I | |
| 8 | 9/16/20 | Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Introduction to Forecasting Part 2 | Quiz 3 |
| 9 | 9/21/20 | Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Time Series (Various Features) details | |
| 10 | 9/23/20 | Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (IV) Naïve Decomposition and Forecasting Methods details | Quiz4 and PS2; PS2 (R Markdown) |
| Topic 3: Basic Probability Theory | |||
| 11 | 9/28/20 | **Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (I) ** details | |
| 12 | 9/30/20 | **Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (II) ** details | Quiz5 and PS3; PS3 (R Markdown) |
| Topic 4: Probability and Distribution: Discrete Variables | |||
| 13 | 10/5/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (I): Discrete Variables and Classification details | |
| 14 | 10/7/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (II): Discrete Variables and Classification details | Quiz 6 and PS3; PS3 (R Markdown) |
| 15 | 10/12/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (III): Discrete Variable and Text Minining details | PS4; PS4 (R Markdown) |
| Topic 5: Probability and Distribution: Continuous Variables | |||
| 16 | 10/14/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (IV): Continuous Variables and Financial Risks details | Quiz 7 |
| 17 | 10/19/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (V): Continuous Variables details | PS4; PS4 (R Markdown) |
| 18 | 10/21/20 | Midterm | Before Miderm |
| 19 | 10/26/20 | Probability and Distribution Functions (VI): Financial Risks details | PS4; PS4 (R Markdown) |
| 20 | 10/28/20 | Parts of Distributions (I): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details | Quiz 8 and PS5; ; PS5 R Markdown |
| 21 | 11/2/20 | Parts of Distributions (II): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details | |
| 22 | 11/4/20 | Parts of Distributions (III): Which one to focus on? Loss and Risk Functions; Mean and Everything else (distribution and moments) details | |
| 23 | 11/9/20 | Parts of Distributions (IV): Applications of moments and distribution details | Quiz 9 |
| Topic 6: Computational Statistics and Parametric Distributions | |||
| 24 | 11/11/20 | Computational Statistics I: Monte Carlo Simulation details | Quiz 10 and PS5; ; PS5 R Markdown |
| 25 | 11/16/20 | Parametric Distribution and Monte Carlo Simulation: Discrete, Binomial Distribution details | |
| 26 | 11/18/20 | Parametric Distributions: Uniform and Normal Distributions details | PS 6 |
| 27 | 11/23/20 | Parametric Distributions: Continuous details | |
| 28 | 11/25/20 | Thanksgiving | |
| Topic 7: Hypothesis Testing | |||
| 29 | 11/30/20 | Computational Statistics II: Bootstrap (Optional) | |
| 30 | 12/2/20 | Hypothesis Testing: Introduction details | |
| 31 | 12/7/20 | Hypothesis Testing details | Quiz 11; PS 7 |
| 32 | 12/9/20 | Hypothesis Testing: Introduction and Test of Mean details | |
| 12/18/2020 | Final |