Stat 61 Fall 2008
Instructor: Phil Everson
email: everson@swarthmore.edu
Office: Science Center 141
Phone: (610) 238-8245
email: everson@swarthmore.edu
Class Times: MWF 10:30-11:20 and 11:30-12:20, Science Center L26
Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4, Thursday 9:30-11:30 (starting 9/11) and 2-5.
Text: "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis" (3rd edition) by Rice
Assignment 7 (due Wednesday, Nov. 26 by 3pm)
Rice Problems: 14.1, 14.2 14.15 and three Additional Problems
2nd Midterm is Monday, Nov. 17 (changed from Nov. 14)
Bring 1 page of notes and a calculator.
The midterm will cover material we have discussed from Chapters 5-9. It will not include material on 2-sample tests.
Assignment 6 (due Friday, Nov. 7 by 3pm)
9.1, 9.3, 9.7, 9.12, 9.18, 9.24, 9.28 plus three additional problems
Assignment 5 (due Friday, Oct. 31 by 3pm)
7.3, 7.6, 7.18, 7.20, 8.6, 8.7, 8.13, 8.16, 8.17(a,b,c), 8.21
Assignment 4 (due Friday, Oct. 10 by 3pm)
5.1, 5.3, 5.12, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, 5.26 + two additional problems
Other problems to look at (but not turn in; * indicates a more challenging problem):
Chapter 5 - Application of the Central Limit Theorem: 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25
Chapter 6 - Distributions of the Sample Average and Sample Variance: 3, 4, 7, 9, 10
Chapter 7 - Sampling distributions and confidence intervals: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24
Chapter 8 - Likelihood functions and Estimation: 5, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 23, 28, 29, 31, 33, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54
Chapter 9 - Hypothesis Tests: 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 23, 26, 29, 30
Pre-Midterm 1
First Midterm is Friday, October 3. The test will be closed-book and you will not need a calculator. You may bring one page of notes (both sides is ok) to use during the test. All of Chapters 1 and 2, sections 4.1 and 4.2, and the parts of Chapter 3 that we've discussed (nothing from 3.6.2 or 3.7).
Assignment 3 (due Friday, Sept. 26 by 3pm)
Rice Problems: 2.39, 2.47, 2.53, 2.64, 3.7, 3.19, 3.20, 3.24, 3.44, 4.32
NFL Normal example from Sept. 17 class. NFL slides pdf shown in same class.
Assignment 2 (due Friday, Sept 19 by 3 pm)
Rice Problems: 2.21, 2.40, 2.45, 2.52, 2.54, 4.6, 4.10, 4.22 + R problems
Assignment 1 (due Friday, Sept. 12 by 3 pm) Problems from Rice:
Chapter 1 - 4, 12, 17, 30, 56, 59, 63, 65; Chapter 2 - 13, 18
Additional Problems from Rice:
Chapter 1 - Unions and Intersections: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7*, 8*, 9
Permutations and Combinations: 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18*, 19, 20, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24, 27, 31, 32, 33, 39*, 44
Properties of "n choose k": 34, 35, 36
Conditional Probability: 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54*, 61, 62,
Independence: 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73*, 74, 75*, 76*, 77, 78*, 80
Chapter 2 - Hypergeometric and Binomial Probabilities: 8, 11*, 12, 14, 15, 16*, 17, 24*, 28
Poisson: 27, 29, 31, 32*, 42, 43,
Exponential and Gamma: 41, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 68, 69,
Normal: 53, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 64,
Other continuous densities: 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 48, 51, 58, 59, 62, 63, 65*, 66*, 67, 70
Discrete distributions: 36, 44, 71*, 72*
Chapter 3 - Discrete Joint Distributions: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.22, 3.23, 3.31, 3.33*, 3.70,
Continuous Joint Distributions: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10*, 3.12, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.62*, 3.65*
Discrete Conditional Distributions: 3.1, 3.2, 3.22, 3.45,
Continuous Conditional Distributions: 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.31
Chapter 4 - Mean and Variance: 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8*, 4.9, 4.11*, 4.12, 4.13*, 4.14, 4.23, 4.27*, 4.30, 4.32, 4.34, 4.42