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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.

2007 Examination

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)

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

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