Statistics 474, Fall, 2008
WEEK 1
WEEK 2
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
WEEK 5
WEEK 6
WEEK 7
WEEK 8
Take home Quiz 3, due Dec 3rd
| Jun Zhang |
Office: E1 105-D |
Phone: 312-823-7619 |
Email: junzhang@uchicago.edu |
Course Grader
| Qi Ye |
Email: qye3@iit.edu |
- Wednesday 3:00pm--5:00pm.
Also by appointment.
- Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm--6:15pm @ Building E1 room 123.
- Required:[PSES] Walpole, Mayers, Ye, Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists,
8th edition., Prentice Hall
Software
- Students will learn at least one basic statistics programming language such as MatLab or R(Splus) in the course.
The course grade has four components: Homework, Class Attendence, Midterm,
and Final.
- Homework (30%) will be assigned weekly, collected, graded, and
returned. All homework will be due at the beginning of class on the assigned
due date (normally a Wednesday). Late homework will not be accepted for
any reason. To allow for emergencies or bad luck, the lowest homework score
will be dropped from the grade computation.
- Class Attendence (10%)
Students are required to attend all lectures.
- The midterm exam (30%) will be a 50 minute examination, given
in class in middle of October. No makeup examination will be given.
- The final exam (30%) will be two hours in length and will cover
the entire course.
The final examination will be given in E1 109 in early December.
No makeup final will be given.
Both exams are closed book, but you are allowed and encouraged
to bring a single two-sided page of notes and formulas.
- Math 251 or consent from Instructor
This course covers: elementary probability theory, discrete and continuous distributions,
sampling, point estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and linear regression.
- Probability
- Random Variables and probability distributions
- Conditional Expections
- Discrete and Continuous distributions
- Functions of random variables, Moment generating functions
- Random sampling, data description
- Point and Interval Estimations
- Hypothesis Testing
Week 1 readings:
| Mon | 8/25 | PSES, Chapter 1 |
| Weds | 8/27 | PSES, Chapter 2 |
Week 2 Assignment (due 9/8 Mon):
| | PSES, Chapter 2: 2.34,2.46, 2.58,2.73, 2.76, 2.87,2.90, 2.92,2.129,2.134 |
Week 3 Assignment (due 9/22 Mon):
| | section 3.3: 12 ,27,32,33, |
| | section 3.4: 38,40,43,62 |
Week 4 Assignment (due 10/8 Mon):
| | chapter 4: 48, 50, 57, 69, 71 |
Week 5 Assignment (due 10/15 Mon):
| | chapter 4: 64,75 |
| | chapter 5: 9,27,32,35,41 |
Week 6 Assignment (due 11/12 WED):
| | chapter 6: 24,28,37,44,48,52,58,75 |
Week 7 Assignment (due 11/19 WED):
| | chapter 7: 3,6,12,13, 16,18,22 |
Week 8 Assignment (due 12/1 MON):
| | chapter 8: 22,26,42,49,50 |
Last update: 8/24/2008