620-202 Statistics

Subject Coordinator:Professor Richard Huggins

Room 110, Richard Berry: r.huggins at ms.unimelb.edu.au

Lectures:

Computer Test in Laboratory during September. You may bring copies of the tutorial/laboratory sheets and up to 5 pages of handwritten notes.

Prescribed Text: Hogg & Tanis, Probability and Statistical Inference. Seventh Edition.

Subject based on Chapters 6-9.

Chapters 1-5 of the text are being covered in 620-205. Probability for Statistics.

Exam:

Hand-held electronic calculators (including graphics calculators) may be used.

Students may bring one double-sided A4 sheet of handwritten notes into the exam room.

Lecture Notes		Homework
Module 1		Homework 1
Module 2		Homework 2
Module 3		Homework 3
Module 4		Homework 4 Data set for question 9

Tutorial Problems 1	Answers 1	Tutorial Problems 5	Answers 5	Tutorial Problems 9	Answers 9
Tutorial Problems 2	Answers 2	Tutorial Problems 6	Answers 6	Tutorial Problems 10	Answers 10
Tutorial Problems 3	Answers 3	Tutorial Problems 7	Answers 7	Tutorial Problems 11	Answers 11
Tutorial Problems 4	Answers 4	Tutorial Problems 8	Answers 8

Tentative Weekly Schedule (Section Numbers refer to the text)

Introduction, Point estimation and Sufficiency 6.2 & 6.3
Sufficiency continued, Interval estimation for means and variances. 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Interval Estimation for proportions and Sample Size. 6.7, 6.8
Order Statistics & Confidence intervals for percentiles. 6.9, 6.10
Regression 6.11, 6.12
Asymptotic Distributions of MLE's. 6.13, 6.14
Bayesian Methods. 7.1-7.3
Hypothesis tests. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Rank Tests, Chi-square tests & Contingency tables. 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
ANOVA. 8.7, 8.8, maybe 8.9
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