STATISTICS 7

BASIC STATISTICS

Spring Quarter 2008 Lecture: MWF 11:00 am - 11:50 am in MSTB 118 (building 415) Discussion (pick one): W 12:00 - 12:50 pm in ICS 180 (bulding 302) F 12:00 - 12:50 pm in ICS 180 (building 302)

instructor: Hal Stern office: 2216 Bren Hall phone: 949-824-1568 email: sternh@uci.edu office hours: Thurs 1:30pm-2:30pm teaching asst: Kameryn Denaro 2219 Bren Hall kdenaro@uci.edu Wed 2:30pm-3:30pm


Course documents will be made available here:

SYLLABUS INTRODUCTION TO STATA (sample data: automobiles) Sample exam (from previous instructor) NOTE: This was 30-minute quiz; ours may be a bit longer. Sample questions for exam 2 with solutions (only 1ab, 3 are relevant; should also be prepared for questions like 1cdef about X-bar) Additional sample questions for exam 2 (only 1, 2 are relevant with 1 being less important; for 2 assume you are given the population s.d.) Sample questions for final exam (from previous instructor) Midterm (blue exam) and solutions (all exams) Midterm 2 (blue exam) and solutions (all exams) Project Description (Assigned May 9, Proposal due May 16, Project due June 6)

Homework assignments:

Homework 1 and professors salaries data (Assigned April 4, Due April 11) and solutions (Problem solutions in PDF and TIFF, Stata solution) Homework 2 and navy dormitory data (Assigned April 11, Due April 18) and solutions (to problems, to Stata (not available yet)) Homework 3 and valve safety data (Assigned April 18, Due April 25) and solutions (For those having trouble: data as comma-delimited CSV file that can be imported easily, valves.csv) Homework 4 and iowa farmland data (also available as iowafarm.csv) (Assigned April 25, Due May 2) and solutions Important note: Problem 5 on Homework 4 is OPTIONAL Homework 5 and lottery simulation program (Assigned May 2, Due May 9) and solutions Homework 6 (Assigned May 9, due May 16) and solutions

Important note: Problem 7 on Homework 6 is a request for a "project proposal"; the proposal is due May 19 and the project is due June 6.

Homework 7 (Assigned May 16, due May 23) and solutions Homework 8 (Assigned May 23, due May 30) and solutions Homework 9 and active learning data (also available as active.csv (Assigned May 30, due June 6) and solutions Homework 10 (Distributed for review purposes only) Last updated May 29, 2008 Return to UCI Statistics page