Stat 6501/6502: Graduate Mathematical Statistics I/II

Week 10:

• Quiz 2 Monday.
• Homework 3 collected on Monday.
• Homework 4 will be discussed on Wednesday.
• Final next week.

• Handout simulating the distribution of the p-value from the one sample t-test.  pvalue.R
• The solution to Homework 4 has been posted on Blackboard.

Week 9:

• Monday is a holiday.
• This week we will cover variance stabilizing transformations (VST).
• Homework 3 should be completed by Wednesday.  Solutions posted in Blackboard.  Homework 3 will be collected Monday June 1.
• Quiz 2 Monday June 1.

Week 8:

• Homework 3 will be due Wednesday May 27.
• Homework 4 has been posted.  Due date Wed. June 3.
• This week we will continue with the development of hypothesis testing.

Week 7:

• This week we will begin our discussion of Hypothesis Testing.
• Homework 3 has been posted.  Due date postponed until we cover some of the material in class.
• MS Exam this Friday, for those taking the exam.

Week 6:

• Midterm this week.

Week 5:

• The solutions to hw1 have been rewritten and reposted on Bb.
• For Problem 8.6 BinomialLogLik.R
• Quiz Wednesday April 29.
• Homework 2 should be completed this week.  Due Monday May 4.
• Midterm Wednesday May 6.
• Homework 3 has been posted.  Due Monday May 11.
• This week we will begin our discussion of Hypothesis Testing.

Week 4:

• Homework 2 is due Monday April 27.
• This week we will cover Bayesian Estimation.

Week 3:

• Homework 1 due Wednesday April 15.
• Homework 2 has been posted.  The Bayesian part of the assignment has been updated.
• The dates of the quizzes, midterm and final have been posted, see the Important Dates link above.

Week 2:

• We will be covering topics related to Homework 1 this week.  Homework 1 will be collected next week on Wednesday, assuming we have covered all of the material in this assignment.

Week 1:

• This quarter we will continue with the presentation of Mathematical Statistics.
• The Large Sample Theory will be covered, the Theory of Hypothesis Testing will be covered, and other topics.
• Homework 1 has been posted.

Week 10:

• Homework 6 Solution does not contain Ch.7.  (I was sick all weekend, sorry.)
• Quiz Monday, Ch.5 and Ch.6  (Since I was sick, Ch.7 will not be on the quiz.)
• There is a very interesting seminar at google this Th.  Seminar
• The Final is next week during finals week.

Week 9:

• Homework 7 has been posted.  Homework is due next week on Wednesday.
• Homework 6 is due this week on Wednesday.

Week 8:

• Homework 6 has been posted.

Week 7:

• Homework 5 is due Monday February 23.
• This week we will cover convergence in distribution.
• Wednesday office hour 1-2pm will be cancelled due to a Department Faculty Meeting.  I will re-schedule this office hour for Wed. 4-5pm.

Week 6:

• Midterm 1 will be given in class on Monday.
• Homework 4 will be collected in class on Monday.
• Homework 5 has been posted.
• The take-home part of the midterm is available here.  Midterm - takehome.pdf    data.MPJ

Week 5:

• Quiz 1 Monday.  Solution is posted on Blackboard.
• Homework 4 will be collected on Monday.  Solutions is posted on Blackboard.
• Midterm 1 will be next week on Monday.

Week 4:

• Homework 3 will now be due Wed.  We still need to discuss Order Statistics, a topics covered in this assignment.
• Homework 4 has been posted. Homework 4 is due Wednesday February 4
• Solutions to Homework 1 and 2 have been posted in Blackboard.
• The Quizzes, Midterm and Final dates have been posted.

Week 3:

• Homework 3 has been posted.  Homework 3 is due Monday Jan. 26
• This week we will talk about Conditional Probability models (Regression) and Transformations of Jointly Distributed Random Variables (generation of normal random variables).

Week 2:

• Homework 2 has been posted.  Homework 2 is due Wednesday Jan. 21
• Please see the Handouts on random number generation and transformation for this week.
• Here are two interesting articles in the NY Times about R.
• Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power
• Doing the Math to Find Good Jobs

Week 1:

• The Syllabus has been posted.
• Homework 1 has been posted.  I have made minor changes to the hw as of Jan. 7, please make sure you have the full list of problems.
• Homework 1 is due Monday Jan. 12
• Please read the following Handouts.  The Introduction to R handout, the Stats magazine article on the Birthday Problem, and the handouts on pseudo-random number generation.

Week 0:

• The book that will be used for the course is Rice, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 3rd Edition.