Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

STAT4073 :: Lectures, Notes, and Scripts

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Lecture Notes and Scripts

This calendar was last updated on December 3, 2010.
[pdf] August 23 §1.1 Sampling
[pdf] [R] 25 §1.2 – 1.3 Summary statistics and graphing
[pdf] [R] 27 §2.1 – 2.2 Probability and counting
30 §2.3 Conditional probability and independence
September 1 §2.4 – 2.5 Random variables and linear functions
3 §3.1 – 3.2 Measurement errors
6 Labor Day No classes
8 §3.3 – 3.4 Uncertainty
10 §4.1 – 4.3 Bernoulli, Binomial, and Poisson distributions
13 §4.5 – 4.7 Normal, Lognormal, and Exponential distributions
15 §4.4; §4.8 Other distributions
17 Practice
20 §4.10 – 4.11 The Central Limit Theorem
22 §4.12 Simulation
24 §5.1 Large-sample confidence intervals (means)
27 §5.3 – 5.4 Small-sample confidence intervals (means)
29 Review
October 1 Examination I Chapters 1 – 4
4 §5.2; §5.5 Confidence intervals (proportions)
6 §5.6 – 5.7 Paired data
8 §5.8 Simulation
11 §6.1 Hypothesis testing
13 §6.2 Hypothesis testing
15 Fall Break No classes
18 §6.1; §6.4 Hypothesis tests (population mean)
20 §6.3; §6.6 Hypothesis tests (proportions)
22 §6.5; §6.7 Hypothesis tests (difference between two means)
25 §6.8 Hypothesis tests (paired data)
27 §6.10 The Chi-squared test
29 §6.11 The F-test
November 1 §6.12 – 6.13 The power of a test
3 §6.14 Multiple tests
5 §6.9 Distribution-free tests
8 §6.15 Simulation
10 Review
12 Examination II
15 §7.1 Correlation
17 §7.2; 7.3 Linear Regression
[R] 19 §8.1 – 8.2 Multiple regression
[R] 22 §8.3; §7.4 Model selection and assumptions
24 Thanksgiving No classes
26 Thanksgiving No classes
29 §9.1 – 9.2 One-factor experiments
December 1 Review
[R] 3 §9.3 – 9.4 Two-factor experiments
6 §9.5 2p-factor experiments
8 Review
10 Review
13 Final Examination 10:00 – 11:50