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MATH 205 (Fall 2021): Statistical methods

• General information:
  • Instructor: Vu Dinh
  • Lectures: Mon-Wed, 3:35pm-4:50pm, Kirkbride Hall Room 205.
  • Labs:
    • Section 050L: Mon 2:30pm - 3:20pm, Ewing Hall Room 101
    • Section 051L: Wed 2:30pm - 3:20pm, Ewing Hall Room 101
  • Office hours: Tue-Thu 2:00pm-3:30pm, or by appointment.

• Syllabus
  • There will be an in-class midterm exam during the week of October 25-27. The exam consists of two parts: a written exam during the Oct 27 lecture, and the computational exam during the lab sessions of that week.
  • Detailed syllabus

• Topics and reference
  • Lectures: Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. David Forsyth (2018).
    The text is available online from the UD library.
  
  
  • Labs: simpleR – Using R for Introductory Statistics. John Verzani (2002).
    Link
  
  
  • Topics: The aim is to cover Chapters 1-9 of the text.
    Topics include descriptive statistics, graphical displays, sampling, variation, normal distribution, estimation, hypothesis testing, one-way analysis of variance, simple linear regression and goodness of fit.

• Lectures
  • Lecture 1 (Wed, 09/01).
    
  • Lecture 2 (Wed, 09/08).
    
  • Lecture 3 (Mon, 09/13).
    
  • Lecture 4 (Wed, 09/15).
    
  • Lecture 5 (Mon, 09/20).
    
  • Lecture 6 (Wed, 09/22).
    
  • Lecture 7 (Mon, 09/27).
    
  • Lecture 8 (Wed, 09/29).
    
  • Lecture 9 (Mon, 10/04).
    
  • Lecture 10 (Wed, 10/06).
    
  • Lecture 11 (Mon, 10/11).
    
  • Lecture 12 (Wed, 10/13).
    
  • Lecture 13 (Mon, 10/18).
    
  • Lecture 14 (Wed, 10/20).
    
  • Lecture 15 (Review) (Mon, 10/25)
    
  • Practice problems (Mon, 10/25)
    
  • Lecture 16 (Mon, 11/01).
    
  • Lecture 17 (Wed, 11/03).
    
  • Lecture 18 (Mon, 11/08).
    
  • Lecture 19 (Wed, 11/10).
    
  • Lecture 20 (Mon, 11/15).
    
  • Lecture 21 (Wed, 11/17).
    
  • Lecture 22 (Mon, 11/29).
    
  • Lecture 23 (Wed, 12/01).
    
  • Review (Mon, 12/06).
    
  • Practice exam (Mon, 12/06)
    
  • Review 2 (Wed, 12/08).
    

• Lab instructions
  • Lab 1
    
  • Lab 2
    
  • Lab 3
    
  • Lab 4
    
  • Lab 5
    
  • Lab 6
    
  • Lab 7
    
  • Lab 8
    
  • Lab 9
    
  • Lab 10
    

• R scripts
  • Lab 1
    
  • Lab 2
    
  • Lab 3
    
  • Lab 4
    
  • Lab 5
    
  • Lab 6
    
  • Lab 7
    
  • Lab 8
    
  • Lab 9
    
  • Lab 10
    

• Homework assignments
  • Homework 1 (new due date 09/29)
    
  • Homework 2 (due 10/06)
    
  • Homework 3 (due 10/20)
    
  • Homework 4 (due 11/10)
    
  • Homework 5 (due 12/01)
    

• Exam-Simulations
  • Monday session
    
  • Wednesday session
    

• Misc
  • z-table