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| 9/15 | Handouts "Introduction to Statistics", "Getting started with R", "Summarizing data", and "A survey of probability concepts". Some contents can be found in Chapters 1-5 of the textbook.
| Do some of Problems 1-12 up to 15 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 10/6) | Problems 1-2,7,10-11 |
| 9/23 | Handouts "Random variables, random samples, and population
distributions" and "Mean, variance and standard deviation" (till Example 2).
Some contents can be found in Chapter 5 in the textbook. | Do some of Problems 13-16 up to 12 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 10/6) | Problems 13-15 |
| 9/29 | Handouts "Mean, variance and standard deviation" and "Some discrete probability distributions" (till Page 2).
Some contents can be found in Chapter 6 in the textbook. | Do some of Problems 17-27 up to 14 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 10/13) | Problems 17-19, 21-23, 26-27 |
| 10/6 | Handouts "Some discrete probability distributions" , "The probability density function (PDF) of a continuous random variable", "The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a random variable", and "Uniform distributions" (till Example 1).
Some contents can be found in Chapters 6 and 7 in the textbook. | Do some of Problems 28-32 up to 15 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 10/19) | Problems 28-30 |
| 10/13 |
Handouts "Uniform distributions"
and "Normal distributions" (before Fact 2).
Some contents can be found in Chapter 7 in the textbook. |
Do some of Problems 33-37 up to 15 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 10/26) |
Problems 33, 34(a)(b)(c), 35, 36 |
| 10/21, 10/26 |
Handouts "Normal distributions", "Central limit theorem (中央極限定理)", and "Exponential distributions (指數分布)". Some contents can be found in Chapters 7 and 8 in the textbook. |
Do some of Problems 38-42 up to 12 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 11/2) 請注意11/2到期作業於10/26更新，新增第42題 |
Problems 38, 39, 41, 42(a)(b)(c) |
| 11/3, 11/17 |
Handouts "Learning from a random sample (IID data)" and "Confidence intervals for mean/proportion estimation" (till Example 9) Some contents can be found in Chapters 7 and 9 in the textbook. |
Do some of Problems 43-48 up to 15 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 11/30) |
Problems 43, 46, 47 |
| 11/24 |
Handouts "Confidence intervals for mean/proportion estimation" and "Hypothesis testing" (till Example 5). Some contents can be found in Chapters 9 and 10 in the textbook. |
Do some of Problems 49-52 up to 14 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 12/7) |
Problems 49, 51, 52 |
| 12/2 |
Handout "Hypothesis testing" (till Example 10). Some contents can be found in Chapter 10 in the textbook. |
Do some of Problems 53-59 up to 16 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 12/14) |
Problems 53, 56, 58 |
| 12/8 |
Handouts "Hypothesis testing" and "Chi-squared distributions and testing for population variance". Some contents can be found in Chapter 10 |
Do some of Problems 60-64 up to 12 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 12/21) |
Problems 61, 64 |
| 12/15 |
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Do some of Problems 65-66 up to 5 pts (extra points will not be counted; due 12/28) |
Problem 65 |