MATH/STAT 355, Spring 2025

Welcome to Statistical Theory!

This website serves as the course website for MATH/STAT 355 at Macalester College, for the Spring 2025 semester. This course is taught by Prof. Taylor Okonek.

Email: tokonek@macalester.edu

Office: Olin Rice 126

Class Time: MWF 2:20 - 3:20pm, OLRI 241

Final Exam Time: Friday May 9th, 1:30 - 3:30pm, OLRI 241

Taylor’s Office Hours: (starting Monday, Jan. 27th)

The following hours will be priority for MATH/STAT:

  • Mondays 10:00 - 11:00 am

  • Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 pm

The following hours will be priority for STAT 155:

  • Mondays 11:00 am - Noon

  • Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:00 pm

  • Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm

R/RStudio Preceptor Office Hours: Available on the MSCS Events google calendar (not to be used for questions about course content, only R-related things!). Note that we won’t really use R until the end of the semester when we get to the Computational Statistics unit.

MATH/STAT 355 Preceptor Office Hours: These are posted on Moodle!

This course website will be updated throughout the semester, so please bookmark this page if you are enrolled in the course!

If you find any typos or have other questions, please email tokonek@macalester.edu.