Thomas Ippolito

Thomas Ippolito
  • Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    331 Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Financial statistics, time series analysis and forecasting, causal inference, statistical machine learning, data visualization.

Overview

Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern University.

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Teaching

Current Courses (Fall 2026)

  • STAT1020 - Intro Business Stat

    Continuation of STAT 1010 or STAT 1018. A thorough treatment of multiple regression, model selection, analysis of variance, linear logistic regression; introduction to time series. Business applications.

    STAT1020001 ( Syllabus )

    STAT1020002 ( Syllabus )

    STAT1020003 ( Syllabus )

All Courses

  • STAT1020 - Intro Business Stat

    Continuation of STAT 1010 or STAT 1018. A thorough treatment of multiple regression, model selection, analysis of variance, linear logistic regression; introduction to time series. Business applications.

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