Ma 442: Statistics
Theoretical development of sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, and hypothesis testing, estimation properties and techniques, and fitting theoretical distributions to empirical distributions. Required calculator: TI 89 or Nspire CAS. Prerequisite(s): Ma 345. 3 Credits.
Spring 2026 Course Information
- Instructor: Melissa Gardenghi , Charles Lacey
- Course Syllabus
Course Resources
- Distribution Modeling Project Information - Data is available in Canvas
- Modeling the Frequency and Severity by Omari et. al.
- Distribution Modeling Process Summary - Completion Plan Template
- Oral Presentation
- Hypothesis Testing Project Information - Data is available in Canvas
- Big Picture - Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis Testing Analysis Plan Template
- Loss Models, Ch 10, 11, 14
Project Resources
Anderson-Darling Test (a goodness of fit test)
Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness of Fit Test
Introduction to Simulation Using R
Communicating Inferential Stats Effectively
APA Guidelines for citing statistics: the following are helpful sites, you are welcome to use others
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Illinois State University - Dr. Jeffrey Kahn
APA Notation Chart, Graham Hole, Research Skills 2012
Statistics Solutions
APA
Recommended Homework Problems
The textbook puts applied exercises for the whole chapter in the last section of each chapter. You should work the problems in the last section as you work through the homework for the chapter.
Modeling and Assessing Distributions
Simulation - see Introduction to Simulation Using R by Rakhshan and Pishro-Nik
Ch 14 Loss Models (see link in Resources): Sections 1-2
# 1-3, 7, 8a (only do mean and st dev), 9 (do mean and var instead)
Ch 13: Section 8
# 80-83
Ch 10: Sections 2-8
# 1, 5, 7, 11, 12, 23-25, 78, 80, 36, 37, 42-44, 50, 52, 55, 57, 61, 62, 67, 71, 81, 84, 87, 88, 2
Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals, and Predictive Models
Ch 11: Sections 1, 2 - 7
# 20-23, 28-30, 32, 34-36, 38, 39, 43, 49-54 (include English for every problem)
Ch 12: Sections 4-6
# 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 26, 31, 32, 38, 39, 44
Ch 13: Sections 1-7
# 19, 25-31, 33a, 42-44, 47-48, 53, 57-59, 61, 63, 67, 73, 75, 77, 84-86 (include English for every problem that needs it) ... Ch 13 HT Handout
Ch 15: Sections 2-3
# 17, 19 (include English for every problem)
Ch 14: Sections 1-6
# 41, 43, 45,50, 54, 55 (include English for every problem that needs it)