Math 1620: Mathematical Statistics

Professor Richard Kenyon
Tel. 863-6406
rkenyon -at- math dot brown dot edu
office: Kassar 305
Office hours: Mondays 1-2pm or by appointment.

Text: Larsen and Marx, An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Appl., 5th ed.

Course outline: Topics include Estimation, Hypothesis testing, inferences, goodness-of-fit, regression. We will cover most of the material in chapters 5-11, and, time depending some material of the remaining chapters.

Midterm I: Thursday Feb 21, in class

No notes, texts, calculators allowed.

There will be homeworks collected weekly and two midterms. The final grade will be weighted as follows: Homework 35%, midterms 15%+15%, final 35%.

Homework:

Late homework will not be accepted. The lowest homework grade will be dropped.

Homework 1, due Tuesday Feb. 5 in class:
5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.2.6, 5.2.8, 5.2.12, 5.2.13

Homework 2, due Tuesday Feb. 12 in class:
5.2.16, 5.2.18, 5.2.20, 5.3.2, 5.3.4, 5.3.5, 5.3.7, 5.3.9, 5.3.14, 5.3.28

Homework 3, due Thursday Feb. 21 in class:
5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.8, 5.4.14, 5.4.22
5.5.2, 5.5.4, 5.5.5
5.7.2

Reading:
for Tuesday Jan 29: review Chapters 1-4, read Ch. 5.1-5.3
for Thursday Feb 15: read up to 5.8