STA 261s 2006: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II

University of Toronto at Mississauga

http://www.erin.toronto.edu/~jbrunner/261s06

Lecture Times

Day	Time	Room
Monday	11:10am - 12:00	Room 263, North Building
Wednesday	11:10am - 1:00pm	Room 263, North Building

• Lecture Instructor: Jerry Brunner
• Office: 4059c (South Building)
• Phone: 905-828-3816
• email: jbrunner@utm.toronto.edu
• Office Hours: Monday 12:10-2:00

Tutorial Times (First Tutorial is Wed. Jan. 11th: Quiz on Assignment 1 in lecture)

Section	Day and Time	Room
TUT0101	Wednesday 9:10-10:00	Room 2130, CCIT Building
TUT0201	Wednesday 10:10-11:00	Room 144, North Building

• Tutorial Instructor: Fumihiro (Hiro) Hasegawa
• Office: 3093H (South Building)
• Phone: 905-828-5329
• email: hiro@comm.utoronto.ca
• Office Hours: Tuesday q12:30pm-2:30pm

Text John E. Freund's Mathematical statistics with applications (7th Edition) by I. Miller and M. Miller.

Topics Moment-generating functions, Limiting Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, Point estimation (with extra material on consistency), Interval estimation, Theory of hypothesis testing, Standard tests for means, variances and proportions, and possibly Nonparametric tests if time permits. Essentially this means Section 7,5, Chapters 10-13 and 16 from the text, plus a bit of supplemental material.

Grading

• Quizzes (20% of Mark): The first quiz will be in lecture on Wednesday Jan. 11th at the beginning of class. If you are late, you will receive a zero. The remaining quizzes will be in tutorial, on the following Wednesdays: Jan. 18, Feb. 1, Feb. 8, Feb. 15, March 8, March 15, March 22, March 29, April 5th. Quiz questions will be based closely on homework assignments. Homework is not handed in; you do it to prepare for the quizzes. No makeups will be given for missed quizzes. If you miss a quiz, the mark is zero. However, your lowest quiz mark will be dropped.
• Term Tests (20% of mark each): In lecture Jan. 25th and March 1st.
• Final Exam (40% of Mark): It will be comprehensive, with emphasis on the second half of the course.

The Academic Regulations of the University are outlined in the Code of Behaviour on Academic matters, which can be found in the UTM Calendar or on the web at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/regcal/WEBGEN117.html . The latest version of the student handout "How not to Plagiarize" is available at http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html. However, it's not too relevant because the mark in this course is based entirely on in-class quizzes, tests and the final exam.