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, Jan 14.
Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics
- Week 2, Jan 19 and 22.
Chapter 3.1-3.4: Probability
- Week 3, Jan 26 and 28.
Chapter 3.5-3.8: Conditional Prob, Independence, Multiplication law,
Bayes Rule
- Week 4, Feb 2 and 4.
Chapter 4: Random Variables.
- Week 5, Feb 9 and 11.
- Midterm 1
on
Th Feb 9 .
(note the changed date!) .
Chapter 4.1-4.8. Discrete R.V's;
p.d.f. and c.d.f. for discrete distributions; Binomial dist.;
Negative binomial dist.
- Week 6, Feb 16 and 18.
Chapter 4.9-10. Hypergeometric and Poisson distributions.
Chapter 5.1-3. Continuous r.v.'s.
- Week 7, Feb 23 and 25.
Chapter 5.4-9. Normal distr., Gamma dist., Beta dist.
Chapter 7.6. Normal approx. to the binomial dist.
- Quiz 1
on
Fr Feb 26 (in recitation) .
- Week 8, March 2 and 4.
Chapter 6.1-4. Bivariate probability distributions.
- Week 9, March 9 and 11.
- Midterm 2
on
Tu March 9 .
Chapter 7. Sampling distributions.
- Week 10, March 23 and 26.
Chapter 7.1-3., 7.5, 7.7. Sampling distributions.
- Week 11, March 30 and April 1.
- Week 12, April 6 and 8.
- Week 13, April 13 and 15.
- Midterm 3
on
Tu April 13 .
- Week 14, April 20 and 22.
- Quiz 2
on
Fr April 23 (in recitation).