ST422: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II

Announcements:

  • Dr. Osborne will hold regular office hours during the first week of finals (April 29 - May 3). He is also available by appointment.
  • Prithwish will hold an office hour on Thursday, May 2 from 4:30-5:30

    • Lecture notes

    One slide per page Two slides per page Four slides per page
    Ch6.pdf Ch6-2page.pdf Ch6-4page.pdf
    Ch7.pdf Ch7-2page.pdf Ch7-4page.pdf
    Ch8.pdf Ch8-2page.pdf Ch8-4page.pdf
    Ch9.pdf Ch9-2page.pdf Ch9-4page.pdf
    Ch10.pdf Ch10-2page.pdf Ch10-4page.pdf
    Ch11.pdf

    Homework Assignments

    (please hand in in class or to Prithwish's mailbox in SAS Hall 4260.)
  • Homework # 1 and solutions
  • Homework # 2 and amended solutions
  • Homework # 3 and solutions
  • Homework # 4 and solutions
  • Homework # 5 and solutions
  • Homework # 6 and solutions
  • Homework # 7 and solutions
  • Homework # 8 and solutions
  • Homework # 9 (Due Thursday, April 25) and solutions

    • Handouts

  • syllabus-st422-sp2013.pdf (Syllabus, posted January, 2013)
  • oh.txt (Office hours for Osborne and Bhaumik)
  • bignormal-table.pdf (normal table)
  • continuous-distns.pdf (Distributional info for continuous RVs)
  • discrete-distns.pdf (Distributional info for discrete RVs)
  • Please see this directory for additional materials: files .

    • Exams from this semester

  • key-diagnostic.pdf (solutions to the diagnostic quiz/hw0)
  • quiz1-spring2013-key.pdf (solutions to Quiz 1)
  • quiz2-spring2013-key.pdf (solutions to Quiz 2)

    • Old exams for practice

  • exam1-spring2012.pdf and solutions
  • exam2-spring2012.pdf and solutions (updated)
  • practice-exam1.pdf (some recently written practice problems) and amended solutions : practice-exam1-key.pdf
  • Dr. Gerig's exam: st422_s08_examI.pdf (not all of this material has been covered yet)
  • ST422-S2011.pdf and solutions (most problems appropriate to Exam II, spring, 2012)
  • Dr. Gerig's exam II: st422-gerig-s08-examII.pdf and solutions
  • Dr. Gerig's Final, Spring, 2008 : gerig-sp08final.pdf and solutions
  • Dr. Wang's Final, Spring, 2011 : ST422-S2011-Final.pdf and solutions .
  • Another of Dr. Wang's Finals : wang-final.pdf and solutions .
  • Osborne's Final from Spring, 2012: final-sp2012.pdf

    • Datasets and SAS programs

  • SAS code for problem 10.71 of HW9 bodytemps.sas and output
  • R code for generating power curve for LMD/Beer example lmdpower.r
  • R code for demonstration involving estimation of P(Y=0) for poisson dist. poisson0.r
  • R code for confidence interval from 1 exponential observation exp-n1.r
  • R code for German Tanks problem simulation tanks.r
  • R code for Example 6.6.1 sim6_6.r
  • R code for Example 6.7.1 example6-7-1.r
  • R code for slide 17, Ch7 xbar_s_normal.r

    • Links

  • files directory for this course.
  • to normal human temperatures data/story in JSE.
  • Graduate students who work as tutors in the Dept. of Statistics.
  • Wiki article on the German Tank Problem
  • Useful Applets for computing p-values and critical values.
  • More applets with critical values and probabilities of common distributions
  • Let's make a deal applet from same site.
  • Lenth's power and sample size computations applets
  • A collection of applets with some exact confidence intervals using binomial and hypergeometric distributions statapps by Dr. Jerry Veeh.
  • Taylor series approximations of exp(x) animation for x near x=0.

    • Other links


    Contact Information


    Dr. Jason A. Osborne
    Department of Statistics,
    North Carolina State University,
    Raleigh, NC, 27695-8203.

    osborne@stat.ncsu.edu
    Tel: (919) 515-1922
    Fax: (919) 515-1169