MATH 5090 (Spring '12)
Time & Place: MWF 12:55-13:45 PM,
ST 205
Lecturer:
Firas Rassoul-Agha
Phone: (801) 585-1647,
E-Mail:
firas@math.utah.edu
Office Hour: Monday 10:45-11:45 AM or by appointment, at
LCB 209
Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of Calculus I, II, and III, Basic Probability (MATH 5010 or equivalent),
and Statistical Inference I (MATH 5080 or equivalent).
Here are my
Math 5010 and
Math 5080 lectures, in case you need to refresh on things.
Textbook:
Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2nd Edition, by Bain & Engelhardt
I will also try to have up-to-date
lecture notes.
Homework will be out of the textbook.
Two midterms count 30% each and are on
February 24 and April 13.
Same time and place as lecture.
Final counts 40% and is on
Friday April 27, 1PM till 3PM,
same place as lecture.
NO make-up tests.
Below I will post a list of homework problems.
Homework will not be collected. However,
Exam questions are taken, word for word,
from assigned homework problems. Therefore, the BEST way to
keep up with the pace
of this course
and to prepare for exams is to
solve, at the very least,
the assigned
homework problems in a timely fashion.
Exams aside, to learn
the subject well you
really need to solve as many
problems as you can.
Doing the math is the ONLY way to learn math.
Homework Problems:
A useful page on pdf's and p-values of famous distributions
Chapter 11 (pages 384-387): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 19, 20, 25
Confidence interval applet.
Chapter 12 (pages 436-441): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24,
27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 37, 38, 39
Chapter 13 (pages 462-467): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22
Chapter 14 (pages 485-498): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Chapter 15 (pages 535-539): 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, 16, 17a*,
18a*, 19, 20, 21, 22a*
*the rest is a good exercise, but not required
