Tentative Schedule for STAT 3611

 

Topics

Hours spent

Introduction +Sample space +Events

2

Counting samples points

2

1st homework

 

Probability of an event  + Additive rules  

2

Conditional probability +Multiplicative rule

2

2nd homework

 

Bayes’ Rule

1

Concepts of a random variable

1

Discrete and Continuous probability distribution

2

3rd homework

 

Joint probability distributions

3~4

4th homework

 

Mean of random variables

2

Variance and covariance

1~2

5th homework

 

Means and variance of linear comb of RVs +review of 1st midterm

2

1st midterm

1

Chebyshev’s

1

Uniform (discrete) +Binomial 

2

Multinomial+Hypogeometric

2

6th homework

 

Negative binomial  + geometric

1.5

Poisson distribution and Poisson process

1.5

Continuous uniform

1

7th homework

 

Normal curves + Areas under normal curve 

2

Applications +Normal approx. to Binomial

2

8th homework

 

Gamma and exponential +Application

2

Chi-squared distribution

1

Moments and MGF

2~3

9th homework(more time for homework)

 

Review for 2nd midterm

0.5

2nd Midterm on Friday

1

Random sample +Statistics (mean, variance, etc)

2

Display of data

1

Sampling distributions (chisquared+t)

2

10th homework

 

Methods of estimation+ Estimating mean +standard error

2

Estimating difference of two means+ proportion(s)

2

11th homework

 

Estimating variance

1

Hypothesis +one or two tailed tests

1

p-values

2

Testing on mean(variance known or unknown)

2

Testing on two means

1

Testing on proportion

 

12th homework

 

Review of the final

1