Mathematics 363

Introduction to Statistical Methods

Spring 2010

Course Syllabus

Week	Dates	Topic		References
1	14 Jan	Introduction Displaying Data		New York Times: R’s power World Wide Oil Consumption
2	19 Jan – 21 Jan	Describing Distributions with Numbers	Assignment 1	Hans Rosling’s TED lecture
3	26 Jan – 28 Jan	Correlation and Regression Producing Data		The Census Bureau The Women's Health Initiative
4	2 Feb – 4 Feb	Basics of Probability Conditional Probability and Independence		The Polio Crusade National Center for Biotechnology Information
5	9 Feb – 11 Feb	Random Variables and Distribution Functions	Assignment 2
6	16 Feb – 18 Feb	Expected Values
7	23 Feb – 25 Feb	Examples of Mass Functions and Densities
8	2 Mar – 4 Mar	The Law of Large Numbers	Assignment 3
9	9 Mar – 11 Mar	The Central Limit Theorem	Exam 1
10	23 Mar – 25 Mar	Introduction to Estimation Methods of Moments
11	30 Mar – 1 Apr	Unbiased Estimation Maximum Likelihood Estimation
12	6 Apr – 8 Apr	Interval Estmation	Assignment 4
13	13 Apr – 15 Apr	Simple Hypotheses Composite Hypotheses		Receiver Operating Characteristic
14	20 Apr – 22 Apr	Likelihood Ratio Tests t Procedures		Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance
15	27 Apr – 29 Apr	Goodness of Fit	Assignment 5 Exam 2
16	4 May	Analysis of Variance	Assignment 6
17	11 May		Final Exam

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