Introduction to Statistics

Spring 2009
Wednesdays, 2:10 ~ 5:00 PM
Instructor: Dr. Berlin Chen (陳柏琳)

Tentative List of Topics:

02/25		Course Overview & Introduction
03/04		Sampling and Descriptive Statistics
03/11		Quick Review of Probability	HW-01: (Chapter 1) Supplementary Exercises 8, 12, 18 (Due: 03/31)
03/18		Propagation of Error	HW-02: (Chapter 2) Supplementary Exercises 6, 18, 34 (Due: 03/31)
03/25		Commonly Used Distributions and Parameter Estimation
04/01		Commonly Used Distributions and Parameter Estimation
04/08		Simulation
04/15		Confidence Intervals	HW-03: (Chapter 3) Supplementary Exercises 4, 10, 22 (Due: 04/29) HW-04: (Chapter 4) Supplementary Exercises 8, 16, 24 (Due: 04/29)
04/22		Midterm
04/29		Confidence Intervals
05/06		Hypothesis Testing	HW-05: (Chapter 5) Supplementary Exercises 2, 10, 18, 20 (Due: 05/20)
05/13		Hypothesis Testing
05/20		Data Analysis and Dimension Reduction	HW-06: (Chapter 6) Supplementary Exercises 2, 10, 14, 18 (Due: 06/10)
05/27		Quiz	Scope: Chapters 5 and 6
06/03		Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
06/10		Multiple Regression	HW-07: (Chapter 7) Supplementary Exercises 6, 20, 22 (Due: 06/24)
06/17		Final
06/24

Textbook:
     1.   William C. Navidi, “Statistics for Engineers and Scientists,” McGraw-Hill (2 edition, 2007)

References:

1		Prem S. Mann, "Introductory Statistics," Wesley, (6 edition, 2007)
2		Ethem Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, MIT Press, 2004