School of Information and Computer Science
Department of Statistics

STATISTICS 120B - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Class Info
Gang Liang
346G Computer Science
949-824-9795 (o)
liang@uci.edu
Office hours: MTuW 9:30-10:30am or by appointment

TA: Matt Johnson
Office hours: MF 11:30-12:30

TT 8-9:20am @ Social Science Laboratory 140

Discussion @ Social Science Trailer 101
Session #1: Wed 4-4:50pm
Session #2: Wed 5-5:50pm

A tentative Syllabus here.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
- William W. Watt
Links and Handouts
Mailing list   37620-W05@classes.uci.edu
FAQ, archive

Grades   http://eee.uci.edu/toolbox/gradebook

Handout   Stata usage

Dataset   Boston Housing Median Price Data. Some brief introductions here.
Homework Assignments
Homework 1, (Due Jan 20), solution
Homework 2, (Due Jan 27), solution
Homework 3, (Due Feb 3), solution
Homework 4, (Due Feb 24), solution
Homework 5, (Due Mar 3), solution
Homework 6, (Due Mar 10), solution
Sample Midterm, solution
Midterm, solution
Sample Final, solution
Lectures (tentative)
Lec 1 (1/6): fall review; simple random sampling
Lec 2 (1/11): sample mean/variance; MSE
Lec 3 (1/13): finite population correction; CI
Lec 4 (1/18): point estimation; MOM
Lec 5 (1/20): maximum likelihood estimate
Lec 6 (1/25): consistency; asymptotic variance
Lec 7 (1/27): goodness-of-fit
Lec 8 (2/1): more large sample theory
Lec 9 (2/3)
Lec 10 (2/8): midterm
Lec 11 (2/10)
Lec 12 (2/15)
Lec 13 (2/17)
Lec 14 (2/22)
Lec 15 (2/24)
Lec 16 (3/1)
Lec 17 (3/3)
Lec 18 (3/8)
Lec 19 (3/10)
Lec 20 (3/15): all questions answered.
Last Modified: Friday, 25-Mar-2005 11:44:44 PST by Gang Liang.