Statistics 2MB3

Statistical Methods

Dr P.D.M. Macdonald

2004-2005


| Announcements | Calendar | Timetable | Textbook | Tutorials & Labs | Course Notes |
| Computing Resources | Exercises | Assignments | Tests | Links | Trivia |

Statistics 2MB3 is offered by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University.
Any questions, comments or suggestions? Send an e-mail to me at pdmmac@mcmaster.ca.


Announcements

REMAINING EXAM OFFICE HOURS
Fri Apr 14 14:00-16:00;
Mon Apr 18 9:30-13:30.

Assignment #3 is now marked!
Please collect all your tests and assignments from HH-210 during my office hours.

Check your term marks online!
(To preserve confidentiality, I have omitted the first two digits of your student number.)

Be sure to copy Tables A.3 to A.11 from the text and bring them to the Final Exam.

Calendar Description & Course Outline

STATS 2MB3: Statistical Methods

Estimation; sampling distributions; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; power; robustness; analysis of variance for one and two factor designs; linear regression; graphical methods; statistical computing using software package R.

Course Outline

Timetable

Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:30 in ABB-163

Textbook

Devore, J.L. (2004) Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, Sixth Edition, Brooks/Cole.

This book will be useful as a statistics and experimental design handbook in later courses and after you graduate. The Fifth Edition is also acceptable.

Dalgaard, P. (2002) Introductory Statistics with R, Springer.

Optional text.

Tutorials & Computer Labs

T01 Friday 14:30 BSB-104 (KTH-B121 on January 14, 21, 28)
T02 Friday 11:30 BSB-248 (BSB-241 on January 14, 21, 28)

There is no tutorial on January 7. The tutorials on January 14, 21, 28 will be held in the computer lab.

Course Notes

Computing Resources

Exercises

These exercises are for self-directed learning. They will not be graded and you do not have to hand them in. However, you will find that writing down your interpretation of the results is an excellent way to clarify your understanding. If you complete your report and submit it to me, I will read it and return it with comments and suggestions.

Assignments

The slot for submitting assignments is on the wall beside HH-105.

Tests

Test #1

2005-02-03 (Thursday)

19:00-21:00

BSB-244 Computer Lab*

Test #2

2005-03-03 (Thursday)

18:45-19:45

MDCL-1105

Test #3

2005-03-23 (Wednesday)

18:45-19:45

T29-101

Aids permitted: Any calculators, any mathematical or statistical tables, one sheet of notes (8.5" x 11", one side only).

*You must have a valid userid, password and laser printing account for the BSB computer lab when you write Test #1. Tests MUST be submitted on paper; electronic submission is NOT permitted.

If you are unable to write a test at the scheduled time, please e-mail me at least 3 days before to make special arrangements.

Some Other Links

Trivia

I was in Washington, DC, February 15-18 serving on a Scientific Advisory Panel for the US Environmental Protection Agency, on "N-methyl Carbamate Cumulative Risk Assessment: Pilot Cumulative Analysis." These are public hearings to review the methodology the EPA proposes to use. Why is it important to have statisticians on these panels?

Learn about these famous statisticians!
The Reverend Thomas Bayes, more on Thomas Bayes, Siméon Denis Poisson, Florence Nightingale, William Sealey Gosset, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, John Wilder Tukey, Charles Dunnett.
George Waddel Snedecor named the F-distribution in honour of Fisher.
Gosset and I both studied at New College, Oxford, but we were not there at the same time.

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