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:

  1. Week 1, Jan 14.
    Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics
  2. Week 2, Jan 19 and 22.
    Chapter 3.1-3.4: Probability
  3. Week 3, Jan 26 and 28.
    Chapter 3.5-3.8: Conditional Prob, Independence, Multiplication law, Bayes Rule
  4. Week 4, Feb 2 and 4.
    Chapter 4: Random Variables.
  5. 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.
  6. Week 6, Feb 16 and 18.
    Chapter 4.9-10. Hypergeometric and Poisson distributions.
    Chapter 5.1-3. Continuous r.v.'s.
  7. 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) .
  8. Week 8, March 2 and 4.
    Chapter 6.1-4. Bivariate probability distributions.
  9. Week 9, March 9 and 11.
    Midterm 2 on Tu March 9 .
    Chapter 7. Sampling distributions.
  10. Week 10, March 23 and 26. Chapter 7.1-3., 7.5, 7.7. Sampling distributions.
  11. Week 11, March 30 and April 1.
  12. Week 12, April 6 and 8.
  13. Week 13, April 13 and 15.
    Midterm 3 on Tu April 13 .
  14. Week 14, April 20 and 22.
    Quiz 2 on Fr April 23 (in recitation).