Stat 320 Course Materials
| Project title | Time | Location |
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| Young Ko (TA) | Mondays 1-2pm | Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/2592304024 |
| Professor Stadie | Wednesdays 5-5:45pm | Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/3799597115 |
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Lecture notes can be found on the course Canvas website.
| Lecture | Date | Lecture | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1, Tuesday | January 7 | Set Theory, Union Intersection Complement | Mathematical Statistics and Data Science, Rice 1.1, 1.2 |
| Week 1, Thursday | January 9 | Probability Measures, The Multiplication Principle, Permutations and Combinations | Rice 1.3, 1.4 |
| Week 2. Tuesday | January 14 | Permutations and Combinations cont., The Birthday Problem, Multinomial Selection | Rice 1.4 |
| Week 2, Thursday | January 16 | Conditional Probability, Bayes Rule, Independence | Rice 1.5 and 1.6 |
| Week 3, Tuesday | January 21 | Random Variables, PMF, CBF, Binomial Distribution | Rice 2.1 |
| Week 3, Thursday | January 23 | Binomial Distribution cont., Geometric Distribution, Negative Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution | Rice 2.1 |
| Week 4, Tuesday | January 28 | Continuous Random Variables, Exponential Distribution, Gamma Distribution | Rice 2.2.1, 2.2.2 |
| Week 4, Thursday | January 30 | Normal Distribution | Rice 2.2.3 |
| Week 5, Tuesday | February 4 | In-Class Midterm Exam | |
| Week 5, Thursday | February 6 | Functions of a Random Variable, Generating Random Numbers, Inverse CDF | Rice 2.3 |
| Week 6, Tuesday | February 11 | Functions of Random Variables cont., Joint Distributions, Multinomial Distribution | Rice 3.1, 3.2, and 3.5.1 |
| Week 6, Thursday | February 13 | Independence, Continuous Joint Distributions, The General Method of Transformations, Convolution | Rice 3.3 (first two pages and example F), 3.4 (first page), 3.5.2, 3.6 |
| Week 7, Tuesday | February 18 | Expected Values, The Law of Unconscious Statistician, Markov's Inequality | Rice 4.1 |
| Week 7, Thursday | February 20 | Variance, Covariance, Correlation, Chebyshev's Inequality | Rice 4.2 |
| Week 8, Tuesday | February 25 | Law of Iterated Expectations | |
| Week 8, Thursday | February 27 | Moment Generating Functions | |
| Week 9, Tuesday | Mar 4 | Law of Large Numbers | |
| Week 9, Thursday | March 6 | Central Limit Theorem | |
| Week 10 | Mar 11 and 13 | Reading Week - No Class | |
| Week 11, Thursday | March 20th | In-class Final Exam 12-2PM |
| Assignment | Date released | Due date |
|---|---|---|
| HW 1 | Jan 9 | Jan 16 11:59pm |
| HW 2 | Jan 16 | Jan 23 11:59pm |
| HW 3 | Jan 23 | Jan 30 11:59pm |
| HW 4 | Feb 6 | Feb 13 11:59pm |
| HW 5 | Feb 13 | Feb 20 11:59pm |
| HW 6 | Feb 20 | Feb 27 11:59pm |
| HW 7 | Feb 27 | Mar 6th 11:59pm |
| Exam | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm | Feb 4 | University Hall 122 |
| Final | March 20 12-2PM | TBD |