MAT 417: Probability and Mathematical Statistics II

 

Information for Exam 1

Information for Exam 2

 

Information for the final exam: Thursday, May 8th: 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. (!)

 

Minitab worksheet for problem 12 on p. 416

 

Textbook: Hogg and Tanis, Probability and Statistical Inference, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2010.

 

Syllabus

 

Assignments through the first exam.

Assignments through the second exam.

Assignments through the end of the semester

 

Information on obtaining an academic copy of Minitab can be found here.

 

 

Handouts given in class

January 17th: Introduction to using the TI-83/84 for histograms, descriptive statistics and boxplots

January 19th: Introduction to Minitab

February 9th: Notes and additional problems on Maximum Likelihood Estimation (section 6.1)

February 28th: Notes and examples on confidence intervals for the difference of two means (section 6.3)

 

 

Projects/hand-in assignments

Project 1: due Thursday, January 26th

Hand-in assignment #2: due Thursday, February 2nd

Hand-in assignment #3: due Tuesday, February 7th

Hand-in assignment #4: due Tuesday, February 14th EXTENDED: now due Thursday, February 16th.

Hand-in assignment #5: due Tuesday, February 21st

Hand-in assignment #6: due Thursday, March 8th

          Introduction to the normal probability plot

Hand-in assignment #7: due Thursday, March 29th

          Solutions to hand-in #7

Hand-in assignment #8

          Worksheet for Problem 1

Project / assignment #9: question approved by May 1st; write-up due on or before May 7th.