Course: Mathematical Statistics, math 342.
Professor: Tom Linton, 312 B Central Hall, campus phone (515) 628-5264, email: lintont@central.edu.
Office Hours: 11 AM Monday, 9 AM Tuesday, 3 PM Wednesday, 1 PM Thursday and Friday, or by appointment.
Class Meets: 9:00 to 9:50 PM MWF in Central Hall 309.
Text: Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 5th Edition, by Wackerly, Mendenhall and Scheaffer.
Technology: A calculator which performs numeric integration will be useful for this course. We may utilize Mathematica on occassion. Calculators are allowed on exams. The class web page is located at the URL http://www.central.edu/homepages/lintont/classes/spring00/Statistics/statistics.html and information relevant to this course may come via email. You should check your email and the class web page on occasion.
Final Exam: Tuesday May 16, 8 AM, 309 Central Hall.
 

Class Materials:

The class syllabus and schedule of assignments.

An HTML file that shows Mathematica commands to calculate quantities related to joint probability distributions from chapter 5 ( Mathematica notebook ).

The answers to the diesel engine exercises ( Mathematica notebook ).

A Mathematica notebook with 3 examples of calculating the distribution and density functions for a function of 2 random variables, U(x,y) using ideas from section 6.3 of the text.

The Mathematica notebook for the assignment on order statistics.

Class activity on sampling distributions.

The Mathematica notebook for the assignment on sampling distributions.

Chapter 7 homework problems on sampling distributions.

Break The Ice (BTI) Assignments:

Order statistics assignment.

Moment generating function combinations.

Point Estimator problems.

Large sample confidence interval problems.

Hypothesis tests introduction.