STATISTICS 426:
Instructor: Moulinath Banerjee (moulib at umich dot edu) 451, West Hall. Office Hours: 5:30 p.m. -- 6:50 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
Grader: Toshiya Hoshikawa (toshiyah at umich dot edu) Office Hours: 11:30 p.m. -- 12:45 p.m. Thursday at 431 West Hall.
Grade Allocation: 10 points on HW1 (mandatory) + 6.25 points on each of Homeworks 2,3,4,5,6 (with the best four counting). 3 tests in class each carrying 22 points. No final exam. Test dates: Feb 19, Mar 20, Apr 15.
Text: Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, by John Rice. DUXBURY PRESS.
A Note on the Exponential Distribution
On Variance Stabilizing Transformations
Homework 1 grades:statistical summary
HW 5 Problems to be turned in are: 19 (a,b), 29, 39, 42, 43, 44 , 49 (b,c). Do note that 44 IS ON THE HOMEWORK. Due date, Friday, 4'th April.
Solutions to some selected problems from "MORE PROBLEMS"
HW 6. Due April 14'th. Assigned problems: Examples 2 and 3 on Page 22 of Parametric Inference Notes + Problems 2 and 3 from the MORE PROBLEMS section of the same notes + Problem 7 (except for Part (iv)) from MORE PROBLEMS + Problem 8(b) from MORE PROBLEMS.