STA113 -- Calendar
Topics are organised by week. Numbers refer to sections in the
textbook. The schedule could change during the course of the semester.
Week:
- Week 1, August 30 - September 3
Chapter 1, Sections 1-1,1-2,1-3: The Role of Statistics in Engineering
Chapter 2, Sections 2-1,2-3,2-4: Data Summary and Presentation
- Week 2, September 6-10
Chapter 3, Sections 3-1 through 3-8: Probability
- Week 3, September 13-17
Chapter 4, Sections 4-1 through 4-6, 4-9: Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions
- Week 4, September 20-24
Chapter 5, Sections 5-1 through 5-9: Continuous Random Variables and Probability Distributions
- Week 5, September 27- October 1
Chapter 6, Sections 6-1, 6-3 through 6-7: Joint Probability Distributions
- Week 6, October 4-8
Complete Chapter 6, review for exam, exam, discuss solutions.
- Week 7, October 13-15
Chapter 7: Estimation
- Week 8, October 18-22
Finish Chapter 7.
Sections 8-1 through 8-2: Introduction to Hypothesis tests and Confidence
Intervals
- Week 9, October 25-29
Chapters 8-9: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals
- Week 10, November 1-5
Chapters 8-9: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals
- Week 11, November 8-12
Review for exam, exam, introduction to Chapter 10: Simple Linear
Regression.
- Week 12, November 15-19
Chapter 10: Simple Linear Regression
- Week 13, November 22
Chapter 11: Multiple Linear Regression
- Week 14: November 29 - December 3
Chapter 11: Multiple Linear Regression; Introduction to
Design of Experiments
- Week 15: December 6-8
Topics in the Design of Experiments, review, exam.