| Class time: | MWF 8:30-9:20, SCIE 420 |
| Instructor: | Giovanni Petris |
| Email: | GPetris@uark.edu |
| Office: | SCEN 314 |
| Office Hours: | Monday 2:00-3:20, or by appointment |
Casella and Berger (2002), Statistical Inference (2nd ed), Duxbury.
Download the syllabus.
| Due date | Problems |
|---|---|
| Sep 2 | Chapter 1: 1, 4, 5, 6, 10. |
| Sep 9 | Download homework 2 |
| Sep 18 | Chapter 1: 25, 32, 33, 36, 41. |
| Sep 30 | Chapter 1: 46, 49, 51, 53, 55. |
| Oct 7 | Chapter 2: 1 (no need to show the pdf integrates to 1), 2, 3, 4. |
| Oct 16 | Chapter 2: 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23, 24, 28 |
| Oct 21 | Chapter 2: 30, 31, 33 |
| Oct 26 | Chapter 3: 2, 3, 4, 7, 10. Compute the mgf of the Negative Binomial distribution and use it to derive the mean and variance of the distribution. |
| Nov 11 | Chapter 4: 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 31, 34 |
| September 7, | Labor Day Holiday |
| October 2, | Midterm I |
| November 13, | Midterm II |
| November 26 - 27, | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| December 8, | Last day of classes |
| December 9, | Dead day |
| December 10 - 16, | Final Examination period |