Schedule for STT 3852 - Fall 2025

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Week 1: (August 19 — August 23)

• Lesson 1: Linear Exponential Family
  • Linear Exponential Family
    
  • Read Before Class: Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications 13.1–13.3.2, 13.6

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Week 2: (August 26 — August 30)

• Lesson 1 Continued:
  • Link Functions, Tweedie Distribution
    
  • HW 1 Due – Linear Exponential Family

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Week 3: (September 2 — September 6)

• Lesson 1 Continued:
  • Estimation, Overdispersion
    
• Lesson 2: Binomial Response
  • Read Before Class: Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications 11.1–11.2, 11.4–11.6
• Quiz 1
  
• HW 2 Due – Link Functions

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Week 4: (September 9 — September 13)

• Lesson 2 Continued:
  • Binomial Response
    
  • Nominal Response
• Quiz 2
  
• HW 3 Due – Binomial Response

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Week 5: (September 16 — September 20)

• Lesson 2 Continued:
  • Nominal Response
    
  • Ordinal Response
• Quiz 3
  
• HW 4 Due – Nominal Response

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Week 6: (September 23 — September 27)

• Lesson 2 Continued:
  • Ordinal Response
• Lesson 3: Poisson Response
  • Read Before Class: Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications Chapter 12
• Quiz 4
  
• HW 5 Due – Ordinal Response

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Week 7: (September 30 — October 4)

• Lesson 3 Continued:
  • Overdispersion & Negative Binomial Models
    
  • Other Count Models
• Quiz 5
  
• HW 6 Due – Poisson Models

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Week 8: (October 7 — October 11)

• Lesson 3 Continued:
  • Applied Examples
• Quiz 6
  
• Exam 1 (Oct 9)
  • No Homework Due

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Week 9: (October 14 — October 18)

• Fall Break (Oct 14)

• Lesson 4: Decision Trees

  • Decision Trees

  • Read Before Class: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Chapter 8
    

  • No Homework Due

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Week 10: (October 21 — October 25)

• Lesson 4 Continued:
  • Decision Trees
• HW 7 Due – Decision Trees

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Week 11: (October 28 — November 1)

• Lesson 4 Continued:
  • Decision Trees
• Quiz 7
  
• HW 8 Due – Decision Trees

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Week 12: (November 4 — November 8)

• Project 1 Starts

• Lesson 4 Continued:

  • Decision Trees

• Lesson 5: Unsupervised Learning: PCA & Clustering

  • Read Before Class: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Section 10.2
    

• Quiz 8

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Week 13: (November 11 — November 15)

• Lesson 5 Continued:
  • Unsupervised Learning: PCA & Clustering
• HW 9 Due – PCA

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Week 14: (November 18 — November 22)

• Lesson 5 Continued:

  • Unsupervised Learning: PCA & Clustering Continued

  • Read Before Class: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Section 10.3
    

• Quiz 9
  
• HW 10 Due – Clustering

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Week 15: (November 25 — November 29)

• Unsupervised Learning Review
  
• Quiz 10
  
• Thanksgiving Break (Nov 27)

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Week 16: (December 2 — December 6)

• Project 1 Due
  
• Final Exam Review

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Lasanthi Watagoda
Associate Professor of Statistics
lasanthi@appstate.edu

Mailing Address
Appalachian State University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Walker Hall 340
121 Bodenheimer Dr
Boone, NC 28608