Dean Foster's Statistics 101 home page

• Office hours:

  • Monday 4-5.
  • Thursday 3:00-4:00.

  Note: Discussion of class material takes preceedence over grades. So if anyone is waiting to talk about class material, grading discussions will be bumped. In general, grade discussions should be down in writing (see grading policy) rather than in office hours.

• How to get a grade sent to you.

• Policy on regrades of homework and exams.

Short outlines of each class:

• Sept 8th: Introduction

• Sept 13th: Descriptive statistics
• Sept 15th: Descriptive statistics

• Sept 20th: Descriptive statistics
• Sept 22th: Basic probability

• Sept 27th: Joint probability
• Sept 29th: Intro to Random variables

• Oct 4th: Problems and examples
• Oct 6th: continuous random variables

• Oct 11th: Review for tonight's exam
• Oct 13th: Decision trees

• No class: Fall break
• Oct 20th: Finance

• Oct 25th: Covariance
• Oct 27th: More covariance

• Nov 1st: Discrete families 1
• Nov 3th: Discrete families 2

• Nov 8th: Review for tonight's exam
• Nov 10th: Continuous random variables

• Nov 15th: Examples
• Nov 17th: CLT

• Nov 22th: quality control

• Nov 29th: Estimation
• Dec 1st: Confidence intervals

• Dec 6th: Confidence intervals (binomial)
• Dec 8th: Confidence intervals (t-distribution)

• Dec 20th: Final Exam

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