STAT 5103: Theory of Statistics

Fall 2009






General information

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

Text

Casella and Berger (2002), Statistical Inference (2nd ed), Duxbury.

Syllabus

Download the syllabus.

Homework Assignments and Solutions

Due dateProblems
Sep 2Chapter 1: 1, 4, 5, 6, 10.
Sep 9Download homework 2
Sep 18Chapter 1: 25, 32, 33, 36, 41.
Sep 30Chapter 1: 46, 49, 51, 53, 55.
Oct 7Chapter 2: 1 (no need to show the pdf integrates to 1), 2, 3, 4.
Oct 16Chapter 2: 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23, 24, 28
Oct 21Chapter 2: 30, 31, 33
Oct 26Chapter 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 11Chapter 4: 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 31, 34

Solution to Midterm 2

Important Dates

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