STAT 452/552 Syllabus

Assignment #1: Due Tuesday, Jan. 24, is over material in Chapter 8.3, 8.4, 8.5

Exercises 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.21, 8.23, 8.31 (Use MINTAB), 8.32, 8.35

Assignment #2: Due Tuesday, Jan. 31. Exercises 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.11, 9.15,

On the data given in Exercise 9.18, (a) Construct a 95% C.I. for the true mean drying time

for this brand of latex paint. (b) Answer Exercise 9.27. (c) Now answer Exercise 9.18.

(d) Use MINITAB to construct the 95% C.I. in part (a). Cut and scotch tape the MINITAB

Output into your HW report.

Assignment #3: Due Thursday, February 9. Exercises 9.35, 9.40 Use Minitab: (a) Construct two

boxplots on the same plot to check for equal variances. (b) Construct Q-Q plots to check for normality.

Comment of these plots. (c) Then construct the 95% C.I. for the difference in means assuming the model

assumptions are satisfied. Exercises 9.45, 9.56, 9.64, 9.67, 9.73, 9.75.

Assignment #4: Due Thursday, March 1: Exercises 10.82, 10.83, 10.85, 10.92, 10.96

Assignment #5: Due Tuesday, March 13: This is over the one-way ANOVA.

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STAT 462: Syllabus

Class Notes 1 Class Notes 2 Class Notes on Order Stats Class notes on WLLN CLT

Class Notes for February 21: Independence of sample average Xbar and sample variance S².

For Tuesday February 28 read Chapter 9.1 through 9.7.

Class Notes for February 28: Relative efficiency, the information function, Cramer-Rao Lower bound on variance.

Class Notes for March 6: MLE’s and Sufficient Statistics and the Rao-Blackwell Theorem.

Assignment #1: Due Tuesday, Jan. 24

Exercises 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, 5.17, 5.22, 5.23 5.45, 5.52, 5.53, 5.72, 5.74, 5.75

Assignment #2: Due Thursday, February 2. Exercises 5.89, 5.93, 5.94, 5.97, 5.103, 5.107,

5.115, 5.121, 5.123, 5.133, 5.136, 5.139, 5.140, 6.1, 6.9, 6.15 (read pages 306-307 carefully),

6.27 (a) only, 6.28, 6.43, 6.46, 6.47, 6.52.

Assignment #3: Due Thursday, February 9. Exercises 5.86, 5.156, 6.73, 6.74, 6.78, 6.84.