Stat 3850

Foundations of Statistics

General Information

• STAT 3850
• Fall 2026 section 03 meets MW 3:10-4:25 in Ritter 323.
• Dr. Bryan Clair.
• Office hours: Tu 10:30-11:30, W 10-10:50, F 12-12:50 in 09 Ritter Hall
• Course syllabus
• Textbook: Speegle, Clair Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R
  

News

Resources

• R: The R Project
• R Studio: R Studio
• Posit.cloud

Data

• cereal.csv (Source: Kaggle, 80 Cereals)
• cl_board.csv: Chutes and ladders board information.
• swift.csv. Crowdsourced data on ticket sales for the 2022 Taylor Swift Eras tour. (Source: Slate)
• urination.csv: Duration of urination for mammals. (Source: Law of Urination: all mammals empty their bladders over the same duration (Table 1). Yang, Pham, Choo, Hu 2014)
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• excess-defense-articles.csv (Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles)
  country_geography.csv (from Wikipedia)