STA114/MTH136: Statistics

Text:DeGroot & Schervish, Probability and Statistics (3rd edn)
Note: This syllabus was last revised , and may be superceded by later versions (future homework assignments change the most).
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Syllabus

ChWeekTopicsAssignments
1-5Aug 24-26 Overview & Outline, Review of Probability HW 1
1-5.Aug 31-02 Intro & Expo Families (D/A ends Sep 4) HW 2
6.Sep 7 Likelihoods & Inference (No class Sep 9) HW 3
6.Sep 14-16 Bayes & MLE Estimators HW 4
6.Sep 21-23 Sufficiency & Rao-Blackwell HW 5
7.Sep 28-30 Sampling Dist's of Estimators (notes) HW 6
Oct 3-6 Fall Break (Midterm grades reported 10/09)
6-7.Oct 9 TA Review Session, 7-9pm, 201 Old Chem
6-7Oct 7, 12 Review, 1st Midterm (Mon Oct 12) PDF sheet (Hist, Avg)
7.Oct 14 Fisher Information & Confidence
7.Oct 19-21 Bias, Consistency, Efficiency, Admissibility HW 7
8.Oct 26-28 Simple Hypotheses, UMP Tests (N-P) HW 8
8.Nov 2-4 One-Sided Tests, MLRs, & UMP Tests HW 9
9.Nov 9-11 Two-Sided Bayesian Tests and chi-square HW 10
6-9Nov 16-18 Review, 2nd Midterm (Wed Nov 18) (Hist, Avg)
x.Nov 23 What's next? Simulation, Regression, ... (Cmp)
Nov 25-29 Thanksgiving Recess (TG is Nov 26)
10Dec 1-3 Categorical Data and Compound χ2 Tests HW 11
6-10Dec 10 Cumulative Final Examination (Thu, 2-5pm) (Hist, Avg)