STAT1202 Course Roadmap

This wiki follows the conceptual progression from data to uncertainty, inference, prediction, and business decisions. The current public preview contains the strongest migrated foundation notes; the remaining university-level 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 foundation topics

1. Data Collection and Quality
2. Probability Foundations
3. Probability Distributions
4. Sampling Distributions
5. Hypothesis Testing
6. Simple Linear Regression

Planned university-level topics

• Descriptive Statistics and Visualisation
• Confidence Intervals and Sample Size
• 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.