Course Outline
Statistics 5101, Fall 2004


Text: Probability and Statistics, 3rd edition by DeGroot and Schervish
Instructor: W. Sudderth, 320 Ford Hall, 625-2801
Office hours: MWF 10:10-11:00
Graduate Assistant: Xinyun Zhu, zhux0141@stat.umn.edu
Office hours: Tue 10:00-11:00, Thur 14:30-15:30 in 352 Ford


Day Section Topic Homework
Sept. 8 1.1 - 1.4 Intro. to probability 1.4: 3,6
10 1.5 - 1.6 Axioms 1.5: 4,6 1.6: 2,4
       
13 1.7 Counting 1.7: 6,8,10
15 1.8 Counting 1.8: 4,6,10
17 1.9 Multinomial 1,9: 4,6,8
       
20 1.10-1.11 Union 1.10: 2,4,10
22 2.1 Conditional probability 2.1:4,8,10
24 2.2 Independent events 2.2: 4,10,12
       
27 2.2 Bayes' theorem 2.2: 4,8,10
29 3.1 Discrete r.v.'s 3.1: 4,8,10a
Oct. 1 3.2 Continuous r.v.'s 3.2: 2,6,8
       
4 3.3 c.d.f. 3.3: 2,4a,b,c,d,e,f,8
6 3.4 Bivariate distributions 3.4: 2,6,8,10
8   Midterm Exam 1  
       
11 3.5 Marginal distributions 3.5: 2,4,10
13 3.6 Conditional distributions 3.6: 2,8,10
15 3.7 Multivariate distributions 3.7: 2,4,8
       
18 3.8 Function of r.v. 3.8: 2,4,10
20 3.9 Function of r.v.'s 3.9: 2,4,14
22 4.1 Expectation 4.1: 2,8,12
       
25 4.2 Properties 4.2: 2,8,10
27 4.3 Variance 4.3: 2,4,8
29 4.4 Moments 4.4: 6,8,10,12
       
Nov. 1 4.5 Mean and median 4.5: 4,6,10
3 4.6 Covariance 4.6: 6,14,16
5 4.7 Conditional expectation 4.7: 2,8,11
       
8 4.8 Sample mean 4.8: 2,6,10
10 4.9 Utility 4.9: 2,4,12
12   Midterm Exam 2  
       
15 5.1-5.2 Bernoulli and binomial 5.2 :4,6,8
17 5.3 Hypergeometric 5.3: 2,6,8
19 5.4 Poisson 5.4: 6,8,12,14
       
22 5.5 Negative binomial 5.5: 2,6,9
24 5.6 Normal 5.6: 6,8,10,14
26   HOLIDAY  
       
29 5.7 Central limit theorem 5.7: 2,6,14a
Dec. 1 5.8 Continuity correction 5.8: 2,6
3 5.9 Gamma 5.9: 6,10,12
       
6 5.10 Beta 5.10: 2,6,8
8 5.11 Multinomial 5.11: 2,4,6
10 5.12 Bivariate normal 5.12: 2,4,15
       
13 6.1-6.2 Inference 6.2: 6,7
15   Review  
       
20   FINAL EXAM 10:30AM - 12:30 PM




William Sudderth 2004-08-20