Math 411.2 Syllabus and Course Procedures, Winter 2000
Professor
W. B. Owen, Bouillon 108C; 963-2823;
Off Hrs: 11 T,Th 1:15-3M; 1:15-2 W,F and by
appointment.
E-mail: billowen@cwu.edu Web
page: http://cwu.edu/~billowen Check regularly.
Students will gain an understanding of the relation between probability and mathematical statistics,and will study the most important probability distributions, learning the situations in which they arise. Students will be able to find the distribution of functions of random variables and will learn the basic statistical distributions that are derived from the normal distribution. They will be able to find the distribution of order statistics such as the sample minimum, sample maximum and the ith order statistic. Students will also learn how to set confidence intervals on unknown parameters, and will also learn methods of statistical estimation, including least squares, method-of-moments, and maximum likelihood.
Material
Covered:
Chapters 5-8 of John E. Freund’s MATHEMATICAL
STATISTICS, by Irwin Miller and
Marylees Miller, Sixth Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Grading: You will have several ways of earning points:
1. POWs---or
problems of the week. We will have 8-9
of these worth 20 points each. You will
have a minimum of three days to work on such problems. For example, if assigned on Friday, the due
date would be Monday at the earliest.
2. Five-minute
quizzes: To encourage you to review and
study current material, we will have 5-10 five-minute quizzes, each of which
will count 10 points. These will begin promptly
at 10:00. Be late at your own risk!
3. Homework
notebook. The book problems that are
assigned should be kept neatly in a notebook which I will ask you to turn in
once in late February. Total notebook
points: 100.
4. Three
one-hour exams at 100 points each. You will have a minimum of five days notice
for each of these. You should use
pencil on these exams unless you are the world’s neatest person. An exam with lots of crossed-out ink does
not make a good impression on your instructor!
5. A
two-hour final, given as scheduled on Thursday, March 16 at 8:00 a.m.
There is NO predetermined percentage scale for grades. In some quarters a 90% may be an A, while it may take 93% in others. You will have an approximate idea as to your grade after each exam.
Notebook Problems:
Chapter 5: 3,
16-21, 26, 27, 37, 38, 40, 55-59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 71-73, 75, 83-85
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7: 1-5, 11-13, 16-19, 24-43, 45, 46, 49-59, 61, 63-65, 67, 68, 84, 86, 87, 89-91, 94-97, 102, 107-109
Chapter 8: 6-13, 17, 18, 20-22, 25-27, 30-32, 41, 43, 48, 50, 57-60, 62, 64-66, 68, 69, 76-78, 83