School of Information and Computer Science
Department of Statistics

STAT 120B - INTRO TO PROB and STAT

General Information
Gang Liang
346G Computer Science
949-824-9795 (o)
liang@uci.edu
OH: Thu 2-3pm, Fri 10-11am, or by appointment

TA: Adam Roy (ajroy@uci.edu)
OH: Wed 12-1pm, Thu 4-5pm

MWF 9-9:50am @ SH 174

Discussion
Session #1: Wed 11-11:50am @ HICF 100M
Session #2: Wed 1-1:50pm @ CS 180

Syllabus and Administria are 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-W06@classes.uci.edu
FAQ, archive

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

Handout   R usage

Lectures
Week 1   120A Review
Week 2   SRS, Mean Estimation, MSE
Week 3   Variance Estimation, Confidence Interval
Week 4   Point Estimation, MOM
Week 5   MLE, Asymptotic theory
Week 6   Midterm, Cramer-Rao Inequality, Sufficient Statistics
Week 7   Moment Generating Function, Some Useful Distributions
Week 8   Hypothesis Testing, Newman-Pearson Lemma
Week 9   Generalized Likelihood Ratio Testing
Week 10   Goodness-of-Fit, All questions answered.
Homework Assignments
Homework 1, solution, (Due Jan 27)
Homework 2, solution, (Due Feb 2)
Homework 3, solution, (Due Feb 10)
Homework 4, solution, (Due Feb 17)
Homework 5, solution, (Due Feb 24)
Homework 6, solution, (Due Mar 3)
Homework 7, solution, (Due Mar 10)
Homework 8, solution, (Due Mar 18)

Sample Midterm, solution
Sample Final, solution
Last Modified: Tuesday, 14-Mar-2006 08:27:41 PST by Gang Liang.