Home page of Statistics 224 :
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers, Spring
2009
Lecture 1 MWF
11:00-11:50am room 6203 Social Science
Instructor : Professor
Michael Iltis
Office : Room 1217A
1300 University Ave. MSC (Medical Science Center)
Office Phone :
(608) 262-7478
Office Hours : M 12:00-2:00pm
W 12:00-1pm or by appointment
email :
mgiltis@hotmail.com or
iltis@stat.wisc.edu
Course webpage :
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/courses/st224-iltis/
Required
Text :
Author : Richard Johnson
Title : Miller & Freund's Probability and Statistics
for
Engineers (7th edition)
Publisher : Pearson/Prentice Hall
GRADING
: EXAM 1
100
EXAM 2
100
EXAM 3
100
Final
EXAM 4
120
Discussion
80
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500 total points + possble project worth 50 to 150 points
TA:
Zhuang Wu (wuzhuang@stat.wisc.edu
) for Discussion sections 311,312,313,314
TA's Office
: room1335Q MSC 1300 University Ave. Phone 263-5948
Grader
for sec 311: Zuofeng Shang ( shang@stat.wisc.edu
Office B248K MSC Phone 263-7310)
Stat 224
LAB will be available for those needing help
on homework etc.
HOMEWORK :
To learn statistics you will need to (minimally) do the homework
problems. These problems will sometimes be collected. Exams will
essentially be
homework problems. DUE:Try
to get homework in by Monday in lecture or by discussion at
latest
Week
Topic
Chapter page
Homework Problems
1 (1/21)
Introduction
1 p10:
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8
Descriptive Statistics
2 p24:
2, 9, 10, 20, 21, 23,
Notes1.pdf
p40: 34, 39, 40, 50, 51,
52,
p48: 68, 70, 71
2 (1/26)
Probability
3 p63: 7, 8,
13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27
Notes2.pdf
p74: 32, 34, 35, 41, 42, 49, 51
3 (2/2)
"
"
" p88: 55,
57, 58, 61, 63, 67, 70, 77, 79
Notes3.pdf p95:
90, 92-94, 104, 108
According to the
timetable : Discussion section
311 meets 1:20pm Wed 138 Psychology
section
312 : 12:15* Wed 2195 Grainger section
313 : 2:25pm Wed 2106 Mech Engr
section 314 : 1:20pm R 2106 Mech Engr
TA wants to meet 10 minutes later starting
12:15 for section 312 until 1:05pm
Week
Topic
Chapter
page Homework Problems
4 (2/9)
Discrete Random Variables
4 p112: 3, 5, 6, 12, 20,
25
" "
practice
exam 1
p125: 34, 41 , 47
Notes4.pdf
EXAM 1 (FRIDAY 2/13)
5
(2/16) " "
Notes5.pdf
p134:
56, 59, 60
p137:
74, p144: 95
6 (2/23) Continuous Random Variables 5
p152: 2, 3, 13,
Notes6.pdf
p162: 21. 22. 29, 30, 36,
p175: 46. 58
7 (3/2) Joint Probability dist'ns
" p188: 71-75, 85, 90, 91,
93,
Notes7.pdf
p194: 94
p197: 99
8 (3/9)
Sampling Distributions 6
p214: 2, 4, 5, 9. 11, 12, 15, 17, 18
Notes8.pdf
p221: 22, 23, 25, 27, 34
SPRING BREAK March 14-22
9 (3/23)
Point Estimation,
7 p235: 1-5, 12, 13, 22,
23, 25,
Statistical
Intervals, Notes9.pdf
Single
Sample practice
exam 2 7
p244: 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36-38,
EXAM 2 (FRIDAY 3/27)
solutions2.pdf solutions to EXAM 2
10
(3/30) Tests of Hypotheses (1 sample)" p257:
41, 44, 46,
Notes10.pdf
54 (without table 8), 55 (without table
8),
Inference (Two sample) "
p269: 63, 65, 69, 70a, 71,
74-77
11 (4/6) Inferences for variances
8 p284:
3,6
p289: 12, 15
Inferences for proportions 9
p297: 1,2, 10, 11
Notes11.pdf
p306: 19, 29, 30, 31 p313: 40
12 (4/13) ANOVA (Single Factor)
12 p413: 1, 3a, 4, 9
Notes12.pdf
13
(4/20) Notes13.pdf
(Do sections 12.1 and 12.2)
practice
exam 3
EXAM 3 (FRIDAY
4/25) solutions3.pdf
EXAM 3 Solutions
14 (4/27) ANOVA
(Two Factor)
Simple Linear Regression 11 p352: 4,5
p384: 48,
Notes14.pdf
p392: 68-71
(Do sections 11.1, 11.2 and
p374-378 of 11.6)
15 (5/4) "
'"
practice
exam 4 (practice final) Solutions
to practice final exam 4
FINAL
EXAM (EXAM 4) Tuesday
5/12/09 10:05am-12:05pm
Final exam location : Computer Science Department, room 1240, 1210 W. Dayton St.
Online statistics and R language books and manuals :
http://freecomputerbooks.com/SpecialStatBooks.html
(has quite a few statistics
resources)
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.pdf
Official R language manual
http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.pdf
(40 MB book with R language ) http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~larget/r.html
(Bret Larget's R help page UW Madison)
http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/kuipers/stat2labs/topics.html