| Course Information | | Office Hours | | Schedule | | Chapter Summaries | | Assignments | | Exam Solutions | | Final Exam Information | | R | | Grades |
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Professor Bret Larget
is teaching Statistics 309 during the Fall 2009 semester.
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| The teaching assistant is Fan Yang. |
| Person | Hours | Location | Phone | |
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| Bret Larget: | Tue 2-4pm Wed 2:00-3:30pm | MSC 1250A | 262-7979 | brlarget@wisc.edu
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| Fan Yang: | Mon 2:30-4:30pm | MSC 1335J | 262-8182 | fyang@stat.wisc.edu
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| Day | Date | Topic | Text | Extras |
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| W | Sept. 2 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Notes Plots |
| F | Sept. 4 | Properties of Probability Models | Chapter 1 | |
| M | Sept. 7 | Labor Day | ||
| W | Sept. 9 | Combinatorial Probability | Chapter 1 | Assignment 1 due Inclusion-Exclusion Notes
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| F | Sept. 11 | Combinatorial Probability | Chapter 1 | |
| M | Sept. 14 | Combinatorial Probability | Chapter 1 | |
| W | Sept. 16 | Conditional Probability and Independence | Chapter 1 | Assignment 2 due
Note on longest run of heads
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| F | Sept. 18 | Conditional Probability and Independence | Chapter 1 | |
| M | Sept. 21 | Problem Session | Chapter 1 | |
| W | Sept. 23 | Random Variables | Chapter 2 | Assignment 3 due |
| F | Sept. 25 | Distributions | Chapter 2 | |
| M | Sept. 28 | Discrete Distributions | Chapter 2 | |
| W | Sept. 30 | Discrete Distributions | Chapter 2 | Assignment 4 due |
| F | Oct. 2 | Exams 1A and 1B (cover Chapter 1) | ||
| M | Oct. 5 | Continuous Distributions | Chapter 2 | |
| W | Oct. 7 | Continuous Distributions | Chapter 2 | Assignment 5 due |
| F | Oct. 9 | Cumulative Distribution Functions | Chapter 2 | |
| M | Oct. 12 | One-dimensional Change of Variable | Chapter 2 | |
| W | Oct. 14 | One-dimensional Change of Variable | Chapter 2 | Assignment 6 due correction.pdf
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| F | Oct. 16 | Joint Distributions | Chapter 2 | |
| M | Oct. 19 | Conditioning and Independence | Chapter 2 | |
| W | Oct. 21 | Multidimensional Change of Variable | Chapter 2 | Assignment 7 due jacobian.pdf
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| F | Oct. 23 | Simulation/Problem Session | Chapter 2 | |
| M | Oct. 26 | Problem Session | Chapter 3 | |
| W | Oct. 28 | Expectation of Discrete Random Variables | Chapter 3 | Assignment 8 due |
| F | Oct. 30 | Expectation of Discrete Random Variables | Chapter 3 | |
| M | Nov. 2 | Expectation of Random Variables | Chapter 3 | |
| W | Nov. 4 | Expectation of Random Variables | Chapter 3 | Assignment 9 due |
| F | Nov. 6 | Exams 2A and 2B (cover Chapter 2) | Chapter 2 Summary
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| M | Nov. 9 | Expectation Examples | Chapter 3 | |
| W | Nov. 11 | Generating Functions | Chapter 3 | Assignment 10 due |
| F | Nov. 13 | Conditional Expectation | Chapter 3 | |
| M | Nov. 16 | Inequalities | Chapter 3 | |
| W | Nov. 18 | Sampling Distributions | Chapter 4 | Assignment 11 due |
| F | Nov. 20 | Convergence in Probability Convergence with Probability 1 | Chapter 4 | |
| M | Nov. 23 | Convergence in Distribution | Chapter 4 | |
| W | Nov. 25 | Normal Distribution Theory | Chapter 4 | Assignment 12 due |
| F | Nov. 27 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| M | Nov. 30 | Exam 3A and 3B (cover Chapter 3) | Chapter 3 Summary
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| W | Dec. 2 | Problem Session | Chapter 4 | |
| F | Dec. 4 | Simple Random Walk | Chapter 11 | Assignment 13 due |
| M | Dec. 7 | Markov Chains | Chapter 11 | |
| W | Dec. 9 | Markov Chains | Chapter 11 | |
| F | Dec. 11 | Problem Session | Chapter 11 | Assignment 14 due |
| M | Dec. 14 | Exams 4A and 11A (cover Chapters 4 and 11) | ||
| S | Dec. 19 | Final Exam Period | Replacement Exams | 7:45-9:45 am Chamberlin 2241 |
| Summary |
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| Chapter 2 Summary
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| Chapter 3 Summary
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| Chapter 4 Summary
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| Assignment | Date Given | Date Due | Extras | Solutions |
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| Assignment #1
| September 2 | September 9 | Solution #1
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| Assignment #2
| September 10 | September 16 | Solution #2
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| Assignment #3
| September 16 | September 23 | Solution #3
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| Assignment #4
| September 24 | September 30 | Solution #4
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| Assignment #5
| October 2 | October 7 | Solution #5
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| Assignment #6
| October 9 | October 14 | Solution #6
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| Assignment #7
| October 15 | October 21 | Solution #7
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| Assignment #8
| October 21 | October 28 | Solution #8
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| Assignment #9
| October 30 | November 4 | R Installation
R Probability Distributions
| Solution #9
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| Assignment #10
| November 9 | November 11 | Solution #10
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| Assignment #11
| November 11 | November 18 | Solution #11
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| Assignment #12
| November 20 | November 25 | Solution #12
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| Assignment #13
| November 30 | December 4 | ||
| Assignment #14
| December 7 | December 11 |
| Exam | Date Given | Solutions |
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| Exam 1A | October 2 | Solution
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| Exam 1B | October 3 | Solution
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| Exam 2A | November 6 | Solution
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| Exam 2B | November 6 | Solution
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| Exam 2X | November 23 | Solution
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| Exam 3A | November 30 | Solution
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| Exam 3B | November 30 | Solution
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| Exam 4A | December 14 | Solution
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| Exam 11A | December 14 | Solution
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The final exam period is scheduled on Saturday, December 19.
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| The exam is 7:45 - 9:45 A.M. in Chamberlin 2241. |
| There will be eight exams available. Scores on these exams can replace scores on exams during the semester from the same chapter. There is no penalty for scoring lower. |
Bret Larget, brlarget@wisc.edu