School of Information and Computer Science
Department of Statistics

Statistics 67 - INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

Class Info
Gang Liang
2224 Bren Hall
949-824-9795 (o)
liang@uci.edu
Office hours: Mon 10-12pm or by appointment

TA: Thao Duong (ttduong@uci)
Office hours: Tue,Wes: 11-12pm

Lecture: MWF 8:00-8:50am @ DBH 1600
Discussion 1: Mon 9-9:50am @ ET 204
Discussion 2: Mon 12-12:59pm @ DBH 1300

Syllabus

Do not torture the data enough. It may confess.
Misc Links
Textbook   Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 7th Edition, by Jay L. Devore

Mailing list   s67-S08@classes.uci.edu (discussion),
archive,
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Grades   http://eee.uci.edu/toolbox/gradebook

Class Schedule
Week 01   sample space, axioms of probability, discrete uniform law, additive/multiplicative rules
Week 02   counting, conditional distributions, independence, Bayes's theorem
Week 03   random variables, expectation, mean, variance, important discrete distributions
Week 04   continuous random variables, some important continuouse distributions
Week 05   joint/conditional/marginal probability, independent, covariance, conditianal expectation
Week 06   transformation of variables, a short review session, midterm
Week 07   probability model, parameter estimation, model and parameters, methods of moment
Week 08   maximum likelihood estimate, central limit theorem, law of large number, confidence intervals
Week 09   central limit theorem and law of large number, confidence interval
Week 10   simple linear regression model and esetimation, all questions answered
Homework and Exams
Homework 1, solution, Due April 11 (Fri)
Homework 2, solution, Due April 18 (Fri)
Homework 3, solution, Due April 25 (Fri)
Homework 4, solution, Due May 2 (Fri)
Midterm, May 9
Homework 5, solution, Due May 16 (Fri)
Homework 6, solution, Due May 23 (Fri)
Homework 7, solution, Due May 30 (Fri)
Homework 8, solution, Due Jun 6 (Fri)

Sample Midterm, solution
Sample Final, solution
Last Modified: Friday, 28-Mar-2008 17:05:18 PDT by Gang Liang.