620-202 Statistics

Subject Coordinator:Professor Richard Huggins

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

Lectures:

Tuesday 4:15pm - 5:15pm Microbiology-Harold Woodruff Theatre 1 hour
Wednesday 2:15pm - 3:15pm Richard Berry-JH Michell Theatre 1 hour
Friday 4:15pm - 5:15pm Elisabeth Murdoch-Theatre A 1 hour

Student Representatives

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.

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