STAT1202 Course Roadmap

This wiki follows the conceptual progression from data to uncertainty, inference, prediction, and business decisions. It currently combines independently written Descriptive Statistics, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing topic collections with selected foundation notes adapted from prior mathematics study. Additional topics will appear after textbook and course-material review.

Independent student resource

This site is independently curated and is not an official SMU publication. Current course materials and instructor guidance take precedence.

Available topics

1. Data Collection and Quality
2. Descriptive Statistics and Visualisation — public-outline confirmed core; current instructor materials take precedence
3. Probability Foundations
4. Probability Distributions
5. Sampling Distributions
6. Confidence Intervals and Sample Size — public-outline confirmed core; current instructor materials take precedence
7. Hypothesis Testing — public-outline confirmed core; current instructor materials take precedence
8. Simple Linear Regression

Planned university-level topics

• ANOVA and Experimental Comparisons
• Categorical and Nonparametric Methods
• Multiple Regression and Model Building
• Time-Series Forecasting
• Business Analytics and Decision Making

Learning sequence

$$\text{data}\to \text{description}\to \text{probability}\to \text{sampling}\to \text{inference}\to \text{prediction}\to \text{decision}.$$

The prescribed textbook provides the initial coverage map. Current SMU course materials take precedence when scope or method differs.