Math 3770. Statistics and Applications
Professor Johan G. F. Belinfante
Summer 2008 Updated Syllabus of Lectures and Recitations

 
Textbook:  Jay L. Devore
           Probability and Statistics, 7th ed.
           Thomson Higher Education             (ISBN-10 0-495-38217-5)
         
Date       Chapter.Section/Topics

M  May 12  1.1-4 Populations, Samples; Mean, Median, Quantiles, Variance
W    14    2.1-2 Sample Space, Events, Sets; Probability Axioms
F    16    2.3 Combinatorics, Tree Diagrams

M    19    2.4 Conditional Probability; Bayes's Theorem
W    21    2.5 Independent Events
F    23    review for exam 1

M    26    *** holiday (Memorial Day)  no class ***
W    28    *** first examination ***
F    30    3.1-2 Random Variables: Discrete and Continuous; CDF, Probability Mass Function

M  June 2  3.3 Expected Value and Variance  
W     4    3.4 Binomial Distribution; Bernoulli Trials
F     6    Class cancelled due to illness

M     9    3.5 Geometric, Negative Binomial and Hypergeometric Distributions
W    11    3.6 Poisson Distribution
F    13    4.1-4.2 Continuous RVs; PDF, CDF, Expected Values; Uniform & Exponential Distribs

M    16    4.2 Quantiles; 4.3 Normal Distribution; Tables of Z values
W    18    4.4 Exponential, Gamma and Chi-Squared Distributions 
F    20    5.1 Joint Probability Mass Function; Marginals        (Final drop date)

M    23    5.2 Covariance; Correlation
W    25    5.3 Statistics and Estimators
F    27    Review for Exam 2

M    30    *** second examination (open book) ***
W  July 2  5.4 Distribution of the Sample Mean; Central Limit Theorem
F     4    *** holiday (Independence Day)  no class ***

M     7    6.1-2 Point Estimates; Unbiased Estimators; Maximum Likelihood 
W     9    7.1 Confidence Intervals for Means
F    11    7.2 Confidence Intervals for Proportions

M    14    7.3-7.4 Student t distribution; Sample Variance
W    16    8.1 Type I and II Errors; Null Hypothesis
F    18    8.2 Tests about Population Mean

M    21    8.3-4 Tests about Proportions; p-Values
W    23    12.1-2 Linear Regression Model; Normal Equations  
F    25    Review                      (Last day of classes)


Final exam: Thursday, 2008 July 31 at 8:00-10:50 a.m. in Skiles 268.

Be aware that the tentative final exam information available on the Registrar web site is subject to change.


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Revised: 2008 June 27