STA113 -- Calendar

Topics are organised by week. Numbers refer to sections in the textbook. Note that this is a tentative schedule that can change during the course of the semester.

Week:

1. Week 1, Aug 28 - Sep 1.
   Administrative details
   Chapters 1,2: Introduction, Descriptive Statistics

2. Week 2, Sep 4 - Sep 8.
   Chapter 3.1-3.4: Basic notions of probability

3. Week 3, Sep 11 - Sep 15.
   Chapter 3.5-3.8: Conditional probability, Additive and multiplicative rules of probability, Independence, Bayes rule, Some counting rules

4. Week 4, Sep 18 - Sep 22.
   Chapter 4.1-4.6: Discrete random variables, Probability distribution for a discrete r.v., Expected values, Bernoulli trials, Binomial distribution

5. Week 5, Sep 25 - Sep 29.
   Chapter 4.8-4.10: Negative Binomial, Geometric, Hypergeometric and Poisson distributions
   Chapter 5.1-5.2: Continuous random variables, Density function for a continuous r.v.

   Midterm 1 on Friday Sep 29

6. Week 6, Oct 2 - Oct 6.
   Chapter 5.3-5.9: Expected values for continuous r.v.'s, Uniform, Normal, Gamma, Weibull and Beta distributions
   Chapter 7.6: Normal approximation to the Binomial distribution

7. Week 7, Oct 9 - Oct 13.
   Chapter 6.1-6.6: Bivariate probability distributions

8. Week 8, Oct 16 - Oct 20.
   No class Oct 16 (fall break)
   Chapter 7.1,7.2,7.4,7.5,7.7: Sampling distributions

9. Week 9, Oct 23 - Oct 27.
   Chapter 8.1-8.7: Point and interval estimation, Estimation of a population mean, Estimation of the difference between two population means

10. Week 10, Oct 30 - Nov 3.
    Chapter 8.8,8.9: Estimation of a population proportion, Estimation of the difference between two population proportions
    

    Midterm 2 on Wednesday Nov 1

    Chapter 9.1-9.3: Formulation of hypothesis testing procedures

11. Week 11, Nov 6 - Nov 10.
    Chapter 9.4-9.10: Testing a population mean and the difference between two population means, Testing a population proportion

12. Week 12, Nov 13 - Nov 17.
    Chapter 11.1-11.5: Simple linear regression, basic setup and estimation

13. Week 13, Nov 20 - Nov 24.
    Chapter 11.6: Inferential procedures for the simple linear regression model
    No class Nov 22, Nov 24 (Thanksgiving recess)

14. Week 14, Nov 27 - Dec 1.
    Chapter 11.7-11.9: Inferential procedures for the simple linear regression model (concluded)

15. Week 15, Dec 4 - Dec 6.
    Chapter 17.1-17.4,17.7: Product and system reliability

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