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Elementary Statistics--Spring 2004
STA 13 (4 units) -- CRN 80406 to 80409 -- Lecture MWF 4:10-5:00 PM--194 CHEM

Instructor: Professor Danh Nguyen
Office: TB 169, #103 map
NEW Office hours: M 2:40 pm-4:00 pm and F 3:10 pm-4:00 pm
Email: ucdnguyen@ucdavis.edu

IMPORTANT CHANGES NOTE the changes in OH (instructor and TAs). The NEW OHs (different from syllabus) are
Danh Nguyen OH: M 2:40 pm-4:00 pm and F 3:10 pm-4:00 pm
Heidi Sager OH: M 9:00-9:50 am & R 9:00-9:50am am
Qian Weng OH: T 11:00-11:50 am & T 3:10 to 4:00 pm
Zhonghua Gu OH: R 1:10-2:00 pm & R 2:10-3:00 pm (no change)

IMPORTANT: If you have been or are still not receiving emails about the class, please send me an email so that I can add you to the email mailing list ASAP!!

REMINDER: ALL exam questions will come from lecture materials and homeworks.

Syllabus in MSWORD or in PDF format. Now available

All files below are in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing.
NOTE: When materials are posted, links will become active, and will be indicated by 'Available'.

Homework assignments
  1. Available   Due M 4/12    Problems    HW1 Add. Prob.    Soln    Add. Prob. Soln    Stats   
  2. Available   Due W 4/21    Problems    HW2 Add. Prob.    Soln    Add. Prob. Soln    Stats   
  3. Available   Due W 4/28    Problems    Soln    Add. Prob. Soln    Stats   
    Additional Problem: Find the mean and variance of the probability distribution given in problem 9.36.
  4. Available   Due W 5/12    Problems    Soln    Stats   
  5. Available   Problems    Soln    Stats   
  6. Available   Problems    Soln    Stats   
    NOTE: BOTH HW5 AND HW6 DUE THU JUNE 3 IN DISCUSSION
  7. Available   Due M 6/7 Problems    Soln    Stats   
    HW5 & HW6 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP IN MY OFFICE
Probability distribution tables
  1. The standard normal distribution
  2. Student's t-distributions
  3. F-distributions
Exams
For the midterm and final you are allowed to bring in ONE PAGE of notes (8.5x11 standard size). Use both sides if you like.
  1. Available  Study guide    Formulas    Midterm exam    Soln    Stats   
  2. Available   Handout on Linear combination
  3. Available   Quiz Soln Stats
Grades
FINAL EXAM AND COURSE GRADE WILL BE POSTED by Tu 6/22/04 12:00 noon PST
Homework assignments, midterm exam, final exam, and final course grade will be posted as they become available. To view your grade, click here.

Each HW assignment is worth 25 points.
HW Grading:
HW1: Additional problem part (d) (A) 2pts, part (f) (A) 2pts, (B) 4pts; 1.18(b) 5pts; 2.6(a) 5pts, 2.6(b) 4 pts; 2.9 3pts
HW2: 4.25(a) 2pts; 4.30(a),(b),(c) 2pts each; 5.16 5pts; 5.19(a) 2pts, (b) 4pts, (c) 2pts, (d) 2pts; 5.21 2pts
HW3: 9.36(b) 2pts, (c) 4pts; Additional problem mean (2pts), variance (2pts); 12.18(a) 4pts, (c) 3pts; 12.19(a)-(d) 2pts each
HW4: 3.9 5pts; 3.10(c) 3pts; 3.18(d) 3pts; 3.24(c) 4pts; 3.28(a) 3pts; 3.30(a) 3pts, (b) 4pts
HW5: 3 6 pts total: (a) 3 pts (b) 3 pts; 4 9 pts total: (c) E(Tc) is 2 pts; V(Tc) is 2 pts; Distribution of Tc is 2 pt (d) 3 pts; 8 3 pts total: (b) distribution of X4 is 1 pt, distribution of X-bar is 2 pts; 13 7 pts total: (a) 2 pts, (b) 5 pts
HW6: 2 (a) 2 pts; 4 8 pts total: (a) 6 pts (b) i) 2 pts; 5 (a) 2 pts; 6 8 pts; 9 5 pts
HW7: 1, 7, 25 points