STAT 261: Statistics I

Syllabus

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    Brief Manual

The Data Colloquium

Problem-Solving tips

 Midterm Exam: Thursday, March 2, 7-9 pm, ELL 324

       You may bring one one-sided page of handwritten notes.
        Review session to be arranged.

        Midterm Review notes (updated Friday, Feb. 24)

        Midterm Exam    Solutions

        Final Exam Review notes    solution to regression question

            The final exam will last 3 hours.  Students may bring one double-sided page of notes.
            Calculators are recommended, but not absolutely necessary.

            There will be a review session Tuesday, April 11, at 2:30 pm in Jeffery 118.

Week
Topic
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
1/9
Introduction, Survey Sampling
7.1--4
slides
slides
Quebec birth data
slides
homework
solutions
1/16
Standard Deviation, Bias,
Normal approximation


slides
homework
solutions
1/23
Normal Approximation,
Confidence Intervals, Ratios,
Estimation

slides
homework
solutions
1/30
Estimation, Method of moments
sections 8.1--4
slides
homework
solutions
2/6 Likelihood estimates
section 8.5
slides slides homework: pp. 290-297/
     #17,21,28,45,51
solutions
2/13 Asymptotic theory for MLE,
Confidence Intervals
lecture notes
2/27 Hypothesis testing: Neyman-Pearson Paradigm,
Z test, chi-square test (start)
Reading: Rice 9.1-2, 8.2, 6.1-2
or D & S pp. 449-57,399-409,470--495
lecture notes slides
lecture notes
homework
lecture notes
solutions
3/6 Chi-square, t test, Optimal tests,
Reading: Rice 9.3-6
or D&S pp. 535-45
Lecture notes
(combined with 3/2)
homework
lecture notes
solutions
3/13 Generalized likelihood ratio test
Graphical methods, presentation of data

slides
homework
solutions
3/20 Graphical methods: Stem-and-leaf plots, boxplots. Independent two-sample tests slides slides
lecture notes
slides
lecture notes
homework
solutions
3/27 Independent two-sample tests,
Paired samples
Design of Experiments
slides
lecture notes
slides slides
homework
solutions
4/3 Linear Regression
Rice section 14.1--2
strongly recommended: Freedman, Pisani, Purves
chapters 10--12
slides
lecture notes

slides
slides




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