Friday, July 13, 2012

Reading for week of July 17


All readings for these lectures come from the text by Spiegel and Stephens assigned in the course syllabus. Only the chapter sections listed below will be covered.

Chapter 3: Arithmetic mean, Root square mean.

Chapter 4: Standard deviation, Variance, Properties of Standard Deviation.

Chapter 9: Unbiased estimates, Point estimates, Confidence-interval estimates.

Chapter 10: Statistical hypotheses, Tests for hypotheses, Type I and II errors, Level of significance, Tests for normal distributions, Two-tailed and One-tailed tests, Tests involving sample differences (means)

Chapter 11: t-distribution, Confidence intervals, Chi-square distribution, Confidence intervals for sigma, Degrees of freedom.


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