Math 141
Introduction to Probability and Statistics

• Text: Probability and Statistics Course Notes, available in bookstore.
• Class Meetings: M, W, F at 1pm in Lib 204. Tuesday lab sessions are in ETC 211.
• Homework assignments will be due on Fridays.
  Homework will have substantial weight in evaluation: it is not optional!
• There will be several quizzes and a final exam.
• Final Exam: Tuesday, 9 May, 6pm in L204

Office Hours

Nonlinear Models

R examples

1. Due Friday, 27 January
   Chapter 2 Exercises 2,3 (page 19).
   
2. Due Friday, 3 Feb.
   Read Chapter 3. Homework will be assigned in the Lab sessions. The lab notes will be Random Permutations and Binomial Probability Computations.
3. Due Friday, 10 Feb.
   Read Ch 4. Do Sec. 4.4 Exercises 1, 2, 3, 6.
   Lab: Expected values, exercises under "Life Expectancy".
   
4. Due Friday, 17 Feb.
   Read Chapter 5.
   Sec 4.4, Exercise 8.
   Sec 5.2, Exercises 1, 2, 3.
   Lab: R Markdown
   
5. Due Friday, 24 Feb.
   Read Chapter 6.
   sec 6.8 Exercises 1,2.
   Lab: Inference for the Binomial
   Read The Truth Wears Off (Is there something wrong with the scientific method?) and comment briefly.
   Another interesting article: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
6. Due Friday 3 Mar.
   Read Chapters 7, 8.
   Lab: Inference for Normal Distributions
   Note Quiz Friday on Hypothesis Tests
   
7. Due Friday, 10 Mar.
   Read Chapter 9.
   Lab: Graphical Methods in R
   Note ReQuiz Friday on Hypothesis Tests
   
8. Due Friday, 24 Mar.
   Lab: Basic Least squares and Inference
   
9. Due Friday, 31 Mar.
   Lab: Multiple Regression
   Quiz Friday! Normal quantile plots!
   
10. Due Friday 7 Apr.
    Lab: anova() and the F-test
    
11. Due Friday, 21 Apr.
    Lab: Logistic Regression, assignment distributed in class
    Quiz! Friday, F-tests, t-tests and CI's for the linear model.