STA 114: Statistics
Fall 2011 WF 11:40-12:55 Soc-Psy 126

Instructor: Surya T Tokdar
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science
219A Old Chem Bldg, (919) 684 2152, tokdar AT stat.duke.edu
TuW 9:00-10:00 AM or By Appointment

TA: Timothy Au, Sailor Zhou, Daijing Lv
211A Old Chem Bldg, Help hours schedule
Book: [Required] DeGroot & Schervish. Probability and Statistics (3-4/e).
Syllabus: Read syllabus.
Grades: Find this course under My Courses on Blackboard.
Software: R, a free statistics software.
Policies: Read Duke Community Standard, Trinity College Academic Requirement.
Forms: Use Excused Absence: Form NOVAP for scheduled varsity athletic trip
Use Excused Absence: Form RHoliday for religious holidays.
Materials: Course handouts and schedule appear below.

Date Topic HW (due)
08/31 Statistics & its use 1 (soln)
09/02 Model & Likelihood
09/07 Maximum Likelihood 2 (soln)
09/09 ML interval
09/14 Classical Theory 3 (soln)
09/16 Confidence Intervals
09/21 Normal Models 4 (soln)
09/23 Normal Approximation
09/28 Review & Practice (soln)
09/30 Midterm I (Appendix) (soln)
Date Topic HW (due)
10/05 Bayesian Inference 5 (soln)
10/07 Conjugate Models
10/12 Credible Intervals 6 (soln)
10/14 Jeffreys' Prior
10/19 Prediction 7 (soln)
10/21 Elicitation
10/26 Two Samples: ML 8 (soln)
10/28 Two Samples: Bayes
11/02 Review & Practice (soln)
11/04 Midterm II (Appendix) (soln)
Date Topic HW (due)
11/09 Hypothesis Testing 9 (soln)
11/11 ML Tests, P-value
11/16 Categorical Data 10 (soln)
11/18 Pearson's chi-square
11/23-25 Thanksgiving Break
11/30 Linear Regression 11 (soln)
12/02 Lin-reg (contd)
12/07 Review & Practice (soln)
12/09 No class
12/14 Final (9AM-Noon)
 
Labs
09/08
09/15
09/22
10/06
10/13
10/20
10/27
11/10
11/17
12/01