STAT 261: Statistics I

Syllabus (updated, with revised reading schedule)

Sample Midterm

Sample Midterm solutions

Problem-Solving tips

Poster topics

Final Exam: Last year's Final exam (note: some topics are different betweeen the two years) Solutions
                     Outline of topics covered

Week
Topic
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
1/9
Introduction
Averages, Histograms,
Measures of spread
slides
Quebec birth data



1/16
Statistical inference
Homework #1 due
slides
slides
Homework #2 due
1/23
Normal theory
slides

Homework #3 due
1/30
Likelihood
slides Homework #4 due
solutions
2/6 Confidence intervals and
Hypothesis testing for
normal models
slides
slides
slides
Homework #5 due
2/13 Finishing hypothesis testing
and estimation;
Starting Bayesian statistics
slides Homework #6 due
2/27 Bayesian estimation


Homework #7 due
3/6 Optimal estimation and
hypothesis testing

Poster outline due
3/13 Testing goodness of fit

slides
Homework #8 due
3/20 Comparing distributions
slides

slides
Homework #9 due
3/27 Linear regression


poster session
Homework #10 due
4/3 Two-sample tests


Homework #11
(not to be handed in)




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