STA114/MTH136: Statistics

Text:DeGroot & Schervish, Probability and Statistics (3rd edn)
Note: This syllabus was last revised , and may be superceded by later versions. Please consult the 136/114 home page for further information about the course.

Syllabus

ChWeekTopicsAssignments
Jan 8 Overview & Outline Due Jan 20 HW 1
1-5.Jan 13-15 Review of Probability (w/Expo Fams) HW 2
Jan 21 Drop/Add ends
6.Jan 20-22 Likelihoods & Inference HW 3
6.Jan 27-29 Bayes & MLE Estimators
Feb 3No class (NSF Panel)
6.Feb 5 Sufficiency & Rao-Blackwell HW 4
7.Feb 10-12 Sampling Distributions of Estimators HW 5
7.Feb 17-19 Fisher Information & Confidence HW 6
Feb 20 Midsemester grades reported
6-7Feb 24-26 Review, 1st Midterm (Feb 26) (Hist,Avg)
7.Mar 3-5 Bias, Consistency, Efficiency, Admissibility HW 7
Mar 7-15 Spring Break
8.Mar 17-19 Simple Hypotheses, UMP Tests (N-P) HW 8
8.Mar 24-26 One-Sided Tests, MLRs, & UMP Tests HW 9
9.Mar 31-2 Two-Sided and Bayesian Tests HW 10
9.Apr 7-9 Categorical Data and χ2 Tests HW 11
6-9Apr 14-16 Review, 2nd Midterm (Apr 16) (Hist, Avg)
x.Apr 21 What's next? Simulation, Regression, ... (Cmp)
6-10Apr 27 Cumulative Final Examination (Mon, 2-5pm) (Hist, Avg)