Statistical & Data Analysis Courses Offered Across Temple University
The Center for Statistical and Information Science is the place to find all information on statistical and data analysis resources at Temple University. This document is a listing of courses offered across Temple University that cover some aspect of statistics, experimental design, data collection, data analysis or database programming.
You will find the Statistical and Data Analysis offerings at Temple University span coverage of the basics to specialized experts in their field. Don’t miss out on some of the opportunities offered here at Temple in the form of courses.
Although we have made every attempt to be complete, this list is not perfect. If you know of a course which should be on this list please let us know. These courses have been listed without verification or inspection of the syllabi. We make no claims about prerequisites, appropriateness, quality or curricula and it is up to the individual to research a course on their own prior to any enrollment or other action.
This list is updated according to the new Temple course numbering system. The old numbers are still included in the parentheses following the new numbers. For more information about the course renumbering project, please visit the Course Renumbering Website, or use its searchable database to find courses with old or new numbers.
The featured courses are courses identified as being of particular import or interest to a wide variety of researchers or are courses that represent a rare opportunity. If you know of a course that should be featured, please let us know.
Course
Course Title
Comments
PSYCH 8041(0525)
Structural Equation Modeling
This course was offered Spring 2007 by the Department of Psychology and was taught by the father of Structural Equation Modeling himself, Temple’s own Dr. James Arbuckle. Dr. Arbuckle created the original version of AMOS software, which is currently available through SPSS. If you want to know about Structural Equation Modeling or Latent Variable Modeling or Path Analysis, then there is no better course to take than this one. For more information, please go to:
These courses are offered each semester at the undergraduate and graduate levels by the Department of Public Health. The courses are to be taught by Dr. Sheryl Ruzek and Dr. Bob Patterson. For the first time ever Temple University now offers a Master's Degree in Epidemiology. Congratulations and thanks to the Department of Public Health and theCollege of Health Professionals for this exciting new program, which is yet another way that Temple University is moving swiftly toward the future of Health Care sciences. For more information about either of these courses or the new program, contact the Epidemiology program director Dr. Deborah Nelson at: dnelson@temple.edu
STAT
8004(0504)
Statistical Methods II
This course is offered by our very own Department of Statistics each Spring and was taught by Dr. Richard Heiberger this 2007. Dr. Heiberger is a world authority on Data Display and programming in S-Plus, R, and SAS. His new book on the topic (Heiberger and Holland) has recently been published (Springer) and is the course text. Statistical Methods II is the second part of a year-long, hands-on course for statistics and business majors covering popular topics such as Multiple Regression, Logistic Regression, Time Series, Non-parametric Analysis, Factor Analysis, Descriminant Analysis, Jacknife, and the Bootstrap Method. Students will be programming in S- Plus, R, or SAS to complete assignments. For more information on the book visit: http://astro.temple.edu/%7Ebholland/books.html. For more information about the course visit: http://www.sbm.temple.edu/faculty/rheiberger/
STAT 9190(0702)
New Topics in Multivariate Analysis II
This course was offered by our very own Department of Statistics and was taught by Dr. Alan Izenman Spring 2007. Dr. Izenman is Director of the Center for Statistical and Information Science and is an expert in multivariate analysis and the father of Reduced Rank Regression. This second course in a yearlong program covers topics ranging from Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Canonical Variate Analysis, Random Forests, Text Database Analysis, Data Mining, Neural Networks and Machine Learning and features a final project utilizing one of the topics covered in the course. If you want to know about the new innovations in statistics, don’t miss this one. For more information, contact Dr. Izenman at: alan.izenman@temple.edu.
Statistical and Data Analysis Courses at Temple
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** Indicates past featured course
ACTUARIAL SCIENCE
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
S06
2501 (0061)
Basic Actuarial Mathematics
F05, S06, F06, F07
2101 (0262)
Actuarial Probability and Statistics
S06,F07
3501 (0305)
Actuarial Modeling I
F05, F06, F07
3502 (0306)
Actuarial Modeling II
S06
3503 (0316)
Actuarial Modeling III
S06, F07
5102 (0505)
Actuarial Modeling I
F05, F06, F07
5103 (0506)
Actuarial Modeling II
S06
5104 (0516)
Actuarial Modeling III
ADULT & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
S06, F06, F07
2307 (0307)
Interaction Analysis
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F05, F06, F07
2255 (0155)
Introduction to Research Methods
F06, F07
8003 (0402)
Research Methods Afr. Am. studies
BIOCHEMISTRY
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F06, F07
8211 (0508),
8212 (0509)
Intro to Research Methods
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
S06
1901 (0091)
Research Methods in Business
CHEMISTRY
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F05, F06, F07
4203 (0328)
Qualitative Organic Analysis
S06
5302 (0433)
Statistical Thermodynamics
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F05, F06, F07
3048 (0348)
Probability and Statistics & Stochastic Methods
F05
5048 (0448)
Probability and Statistics & Stochastic Methods
F05, F06
5703 (0535)
Mathematical Modeling
COMMUNITY & REGIONAL PLANNING
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F05, F06, F07
2513 (0182)
Analytical Methods/Planning
F05, F06, F07
8513 (0410)
Planning Research Design
F05, S06
5524 (0413)
Spatial Analysis Techniques/GIS
F05, F06, F07
5525 (0414)
Advanced Topics & Techniques in GIS
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
F06, F07
1053 (C061)
Programming in Matlab
F06, F07
1057 (C071)
Programming in C
S06, F06, F07
2109 (0109)
Database and File Management Systems
F05, F06
3203 (0203)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
S06, F06, F07
3223 (0223)
Data Structures and Algorithms
F05, F06, F07
3242 (0242)
Discrete Structures
S06
4331 (0331)
Database Systems
S06
4350 (0350) **
Data Mining
F06
4362 (0362)
Application System Development Using Oracle
S06
4372 (0372)
C++ Applications Programming
F06
8525 (0525) **
Neural Computation
S06, F07
8526 (0526) **
Machine Learning
F04
8527 (0527)
Data Warehousing, Filtering & Mining
S06, F06, F07
9615 (0615)
Analysis of Algorithms
S06
9616 (0616)
Data Management
F04
9664 (0664)
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Last Offered
Course #
Course Title
S06, F06, F07
2602 (C161)
Criminal Justice Research Analysis
F06
8102 (0402)
Research Methods in Criminal Justice
F05, F07
8105 (0405)
Statistical Issues/Analysis of Criminal Justice Data
