Intro to probability and mathematical statistics

Hadley Wickham. hadley@rice.edu
TA: Sharon Chiang sharon.chiang@rice.edu
TA: Garrett Grolemund. grolemund@gmail.com
1:30-2:15 Tuesday & Thursday. Brockman 101.
Homework help session: 5-6pm Tuesday & Wednesday. Duncan College 113
Office hours: 5:30-7:30pm, Monday. DH 2090.

Class notes

Week of finals

• May 2. Stats in real life
• May 2. Stats in practice
• May 2. Final info
• May 2. FINAL

Week 14

• Apr 17. More tests
• Apr 19. Fin

Week 13

• Apr 10. Hypothesis testing
• Apr 12. Tests
• What topics should I review?

Week 12

• Apr 5. Inference for variance
• Apr 5. My notes
• Apr 5. Fill in the blank proof
• Apr 3. Confidence intervals
• Apr 3. My notes
• Apr 3. Fill in the blank proof
• Apr 12. Homework 10
• Homework 10 answers

Week 11

• Mar 27. Inference
• Mar 29. Estimation
• Mar 29. Corrected MLE for p in binomial distribution
• Mar 29. My notes
• Apr 5. Homework 09
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 10

• Mar 20. MGFs, CLTs and review
• Mar 20. Proof of the central limit theorem
• Test 2 information
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 9

• Mar 13. Sequences of random variables
• Mar 13. My notes
• Mar 15. Sampling distributions
• Mar 26. Homework 08
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 8

• Mar 6. Bivariate transformations
• Mar 6. My notes
• Mar 6. Fill-in-the blanks proof
• Mar 8. Bivariate transformations (2)
• Mar 8. My notes
• Mar 8. Bivariate change of variables worksheet
• Mar 8. Stats in practice due
• Mar 15. Homework 07
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 7

• Feb 21. Bivariate random variables
• Feb 23. Bivariate random variables part 2
• Mar 8. Homework 06
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 6

• Feb 16. Transformations and bivariate
• Feb 16. My notes
• Feb 14. Review
• Feb 14. My working notes
• Test 1 information

Week 5

• Feb 7. CDFs and the normal distribution
• Feb 7. My working notes
• Feb 7. The normal distribution and transformations
• Feb 7. My working notes
• Feb 16. Homework 05
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 4

• Feb 2. Continuous distributions
• Feb 2. My working notes
• Jan 31. Moments
• Jan 31. My working notes
• Feb 9. Homework 04
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 3

• Jan 24. Random variables
• Jan 24. My working notes
• Jan 26. More discrete random variables
• Jan 26. My working notes
• Feb 2. Homework 03
• Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 2

• Jan 17. Conditional probabilities
• Jan 17. My working notes
• Jan 19. Bayes' rule
• Jan 26. Homework 02
• Jan 24. Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions

Week 1

• Jan 10. Introduction
• Jan 12. Equally likely outcomes
• Jan 12. My working notes
• Jan 12. Homework 00
• Jan 19. Homework 01
• Jan 24. Homework model answers
• Practice problems
• Solutions