degree w88 casino games requirements

Degree plans (w88 casino games vs. Non-w88 casino games)

Students may complete the program of “Master of Science in Statistics and Data Science” by
choosing one of two possible degree plans:

• The Master’s w88 casino games Degree Plan (w88 casino games Plan), or
• The Comprehensive Exam Plan (Non-w88 casino games Plan).

To complete their master’s degree via the w88 casino games Plan, students must complete at least 30 credits
of acceptable w88 casino games courses, which must include:

• at least 6 w88 casino games credits (by enrolling in the w88 casino games course STAT 797), and
• at least 12 non-w88 casino games credits of 700-level courses, and
• at least 21 credits through on-campus courses at the university. For transfer credits, please consult the w88 casino games Director.

To complete their master’s degree via the Non-w88 casino games Plan, students must pass the
comprehensive exam and complete at least 32 credits of acceptable w88 casino games courses, which
must include:

• at least 18 non-w88 casino games credits of 700-level courses.
• at least 23 credits through on-campus courses at the university. For transfer credits, please consult the w88 casino games Director.
• 1 credit of the Comprehensive w88 casino games course Math 795 (Stat 795 coming in Fall 2020).

Degree requirements

To w88 casino games, students must successfully complete the following six courses:
STAT 645 - Introduction to Statistical Computing (3 units, offered every fall semester)
STAT 661 - A First Course in Probability (3 units, offered every semester)
STAT 667 - Statistical Theory (3 units, offered every semester)
STAT 755 - Multivariate Data Analysis (3 units, offered every spring semester)
STAT 757 - Applied Regression Analysis (3 units, offered every fall semester)
STAT 760 - Statistical Learning (3 units, offered every spring semester)
In addition to the required courses, students following the

• w88 casino games Plan, must complete 6 elective and 6 w88 casino games credits;
• Non –w88 casino games Plan, must complete 12 elective and 1 comprehensive exam credits;

An internship may be included in the plan of study, subject to availability and approval of the
w88 casino games Director.

Electives

For elective credits to count towards degree requirements, all these credits must be approved by

• the student’s w88 casino games Committee (Section 4) if the student formed the w88 casino games Committee, or
• by the w88 casino games Director, if the student did not form the w88 casino games Committee yet;

Appropriate courses outside the Department of Mathematics and Statistics may be approved,
depending on the w88 casino games’s research interests.

The Master’s w88 casino games

Students who choose the Thesis Plan must write a master’s thesis to complete the program. This process starts with the student choosing a Thesis Advisor (Advisor), a choice typically made during the student’s first year in the program. The Advisor is a w88 casino games faculty member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics who works in a research area of interest to the student. To initiate the Student-Advisor collaboration, the student should approach the faculty member and ask her/him if she/he is willing to serve as the student’s Advisor. The student and Advisor jointly choose members of the student’s w88 casino games Committee (Section 4).

Once an Advisor has been identified, she/he will guide the w88 casino games through the thesis writing process. This may involve preparatory work such as reading books and/or research papers, computer programming, intense calculations, etc.
While working on the thesis, the w88 casino games needs to be enrolled in the thesis course STAT 797, completing a total of 6 credits. These are typically broken up as 3 credits during the w88 casino games’s 3rd semester and 3 during the w88 casino games’s 4th semester(though the w88 casino games could choose to take all 6 credits in the 4th semester, for example).

The Advisor will instruct the student about the content and format of the thesis. A Master’s Thesis, unlike a Ph.D. Thesis is not expected to contain original content but should demonstrate the student’s mastery of an area of statistics and data science. Upon completion, the student will defend her/his thesis by giving a public presentation, followed by a period of questions by the student’s w88 casino games Committee members.

Scheduling of the defense

MS thesis defense is a public event. It is the student’s responsibility to contact her/his w88 casino games Committee and the w88 casino games Director (all that sign the Notice of Completion) regarding their availability. It is strongly advised that the student schedules defense no later than 1 month before the planned defense date. It is also the student’s responsibility to reserve an appropriate room for her/his defense. Defense announcements should be sent to the Mathematics and Statistics office for further dissemination.

The Comprehensive w88 casino games

Students who choose the Non-Thesis Plan must complete the Comprehensive Exam. This exam is offered once every semester, close to the end of the semester. The exact date for the exam is announced by the w88 casino games Director in a timely fashion.

General information

The w88 casino games is to evaluate students' fundamental knowledge of probability and statistics. The topics for the w88 casino games are a union of the major topics from the Probability (STAT 661) and Mathematical Statistics (STAT 667) courses.

Study guidelines

To study for the w88 casino games, we recommend taking both Probability (STAT 661) and the Statistics Theory (STAT 667) classes; practicing by doing problems assigned as homework and more problems from the course textbooks; doing relevant problems from the actuarial exams; studying proofs of theorems in the texts. Students are expected to know all definitions and theorems with proofs. We stress that the w88 casino games is not based on any particular book. It is an w88 casino games based on knowledge of fundamental topics in probability and mathematical statistics. Some texts you may find helpful include:

Main reference

Larsen, R. J. and Marx, M. L. “An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications”, 5th edition, Prentice-Hall.

Additional references

• DeGroot, M.H. and Schervish, M.J. “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley, 3rd edition, 2002.
• Bean, M.A. “Probability: The Science of Uncertainty with Applications to Investments, Insurance and Engineering”, American Mathematical Society, 2009.
  Society of Actuaries (SoA)

w88 casino games Syllabus

1. The formal language of probability: Random experiment, set theory, sample space, counting, and combinatorial methods, probability of union of events, conditional probability,multiplication rule, independent events, the law of total probability, and Bayes' theorem.
2. Univariate and multivariate random variables and probability distributions: Discrete, continuous, and mixed distributions; cumulative distribution function; probability densityfunction; probability mass function; quantile function and percentile; marginal and conditional distributions; independence; functions of random variables and random vectors; linear transformations;sums, products, and quotients of random variables; minima and maxima of random variables; order statistics; mixtures and compound distributions and their applications;probability integral transform theorem and random variate generation; Monte-Carlo methods.
3. Measures of expectation, variation and risk, expected value, geometric mean, median, mean squared and mean absolute error, variance and standard deviation, moments and momentgenerating function, survival and hazard functions, covariance and correlation, conditional expectation and variance.
4. Special discrete and continuous distributions and their applications: Bernoulli, binomial, Poisson, hypergeometric, multinomial, negative binomial, geometric, exponential,gamma, Weibull, beta, uniform, Pareto, univariate and multivariate normal, lognormal distributions.
5. Convergence of probability distributions: Convergence in distribution, convergence in probability, and almost sure convergence; Markov and Chebyshev inequalities; the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem; normal approximation to binomial; delta method.
   
6. Sampling distributions related to the normal distribution: The sample mean and its properties; chi-square, w88 casino games-t, and F distributions; joint distribution of the sample mean and variance.
7. Estimation: The method of moments; maximum likelihood estimation and its properties; efficiency, consistency, sufficiency, and unbiasedness; small and large sample confidence intervals; information inequality; loss and risk functions; uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU) estimation; Bayesian estimation.
8. Testing hypotheses: Mathematical setup and terminology; power and sample size calculations; p-values; likelihood ratio tests, one and two-sample z-test and t-test; F-test; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; chi-square tests of goodness-of-fit; contingency tables and tests for homogeneity.
9. Linear models: The method of least squares, linear regression, statistical inference under linear regression model.

The Comprehensive Exam is 6 hours long and is broken up into a 3-hour morning session (typically 9 am - 12 noon) and a 3-hour afternoon session (1 pm-4 pm). Students will be allowed a maximum of two attempts at passing the Comprehensive Exam. If the first written attempt is not successful, the w88 casino games may ask for an opportunity of an oral exam to be scheduled as soon as practical (usually within 2 weeks) the same semester. If the w88 casino games does not pass the oral exam, s/he will have a second chance to take the written test the following semester, as scheduled. There is no opportunity for an oral exam after the second written Comprehensive Exam. During the semester the w88 casino games takes the exam, s/he must be enrolled in MATH 795 (from Fall 2020 STAT 795) – the Comprehensive Exam course.

w88 casino games school academic requirements

Good Standing

Each w88 casino games course must be completed with a grade of "C" or better for the credit to be acceptable toward an advanced degree.

In addition, students must maintain good standing with an overall cumulative w88 casino games credit GPA of at least 3.0 on a scale of 4.0. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 in order to meet graduation eligibility. All w88 casino games students must maintain a cumulative w88 casino games GPA of 3.0. If their GPA drops below 3.0, they are either placed on probation or dismissed. Undergraduate courses will not count towards w88 casino games GPA.

Probation

If the student’s cumulative grade-point total is between 2.31 and 2.99, the student is placed on probation. The student must then raise her/his cumulative w88 casino games GPA to 3.0 by the end of the following semester or the student will be dismissed from w88 casino games standing. Thesis, dissertation, S/U graded credits, and transfer credits have no impact on a student’s GPA.

Dismissal

If the w88 casino games grade-point total is 2.30 or lower, the student is dismissed from w88 casino games standing, or if the w88 casino games GPA remains below 3.0 for two (2) consecutive semesters, the student is dismissed from w88 casino games standing.

Dismissed students are no longer in a w88 casino games program but may take w88 casino games-level courses as a Grad Special. Students wishing to complete their degree must obtain approval to take w88 casino games-levelcourses, raise their w88 casino games GPA to at least 3.0, and then re-apply to a w88 casino games program. Any courses taken to raise their GPA will be included in the w88 casino games special/ transfer credit limitation (12 credits for master’s degrees).