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