STATISTICS 514 Theory of Statistics II (Spring, 2009)

Instructor: Dr. Damla Senturk
Office: 411 Thomas Building
Office Hours: M 1:10-2:00, W 1:10-2:00
Email: dsenturk@stat.psu.edu

Class Hours: MWF 10:10-11:00 (351 Willard)

TA: Wei Sun
Office: 316 Thomas
Office Hours: F 3:00-5:00
Email: wus122@psu.edu

Syllabus
Topics

Homework Assignments:

HW1 (due Jan 25): Prob. 1 (notes), 5.11, 5.29, 5.32, 5.34

HW2 (due Feb 1): 5.35, 5.43a, 5.44a, b, 5.51, exercise from the notes on deriving CI for population proportion

HW3 (due Feb. 8): 5.21, 5.23, 5.24, 10.1, 10.2

HW4 (due Feb. 15): Exercise from the notes on deriving the joint density of two order statistics, 5.27a (for i less than j), 10.40 and
particles problem

HW5 (due Feb. 22): 7.1, 7.2a, 7.7, 7.8ab, 7.11a

HW6 (due Mar. 1) : 7.19bc, 7.20, 7.39, 7.40, 7.41

HW7 (due Mar. 22):
EM for mixture of normals

HW8 (due Mar. 29): 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6, 7.10

HW9 (due Apr. 5): 6.17, 6.22, 7.37, 7.48, 7.49, 7.52

HW10 (due Apr. 12): 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.19, 8.49, 10.32

HW11 (due Apr. 19): 8.3, 8.5ab, 8.6, 8.17, 8.18

HW12 (due Apr. 26): 7.22, 7.23, 7.24, 9.53, 9.55

Data Sets:
particle.txt

Homework Solutions:
HW1
HW2
HW3
HW4
HW5
HW6
HW8
HW9
HW10
HW11
HW12

Practice Problems: first set second set

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