Instructor: Harrison H. Zhou.
E-mail: huibin.zhou@yale.edu
Office hours: TBA. Tentatively Tuesday
Class Time: MWF 9:25AM-10:15AM.
T.A.: Wei Dou.
E-mail: wei.dou@yale.edu
TA session: TBA. Tentatively Tuesday
Textbook: “All of Statistics” by Larry
Wasserman
We will cover almost all material from chapters 6, 9, 10 and 13, and some from
chapters 8 and 11.
Recommended reference: “Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis”
by John Rice.
Grade:
Weekly Homework: 25%
Midterm: 25%
Final: 40%
Participation: 10%
DRAFT OF COURSE SYLLABUS: SYLLABUS will be often updated.
Weekly Homework (due every Wednesday):
Homework 1: Ch2: 9; Ch3: 19; Ch4: 1; Ch5: 1, and 6. HW1 and Note .
Homework 2: Ch5: 8; Ch6: 1 and 2 and 3; Ch7: 4. HW2
Homework 3:Homework 3 .
Homework 4: Homework 4 and Note
Homework 5: Homework 5
Homework 6: Chap 11: 2, and 3, and 6.
Homework 7 : Due March 6.
Homework 8 : and problem 6 in Chapter10 from Homework 7. Due April 3. Sol8
Homework 9 , Data set , or check
the website of Larry Wasserman for more details : Data
set . Due April 10, Friday.
Homework 10 , barium , asbestos , trees . Due April 17, Friday.
Last Homework , vapor . Due April 27, Monday.
Review Problems
pdf
R-Code
April 5
Final Exam
MATH 242, STAT 242, Theory of Statistics Assigned to exam group: 32 Saturday, May 09, 2009 beginning at 02:00pm
Room Assignment(s): GR109, ROSENFELD. If you need to decipher the building code, please go to
http://students.yale.edu/oci/buildings.jsp .