Text Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics, 8th edition.
The numbers below refer to the problems at the end of the corresponding section, NOT the supplememntary excercises.
Section | Assignment | Due |
2.1 Sample Space and Events | 2 | Sept. 16 |
2.2 Axioms, Interpritations and Properties of Probability | 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26 | Sept. 16 |
2.3 Counting Techniques | 29, 30 31, 33, 34, 35, 40, 42 | Sept. 23 | 2.4 Conditional Probability | 46, 51, 59, 61, 62, 65 | Sept. 30 |
2.5 Independence | 72, 74, 80, 84 | Sept. 30 |
3.2 Probability Distributions for Descrete Random Variables | 13, 15, 18, 23, | Oct. 7 | 3.3 Expected Values | 32, 35 | Oct. 7 | 3.4 Binomial Distribution | 47, 53, 61 | Oct. 21 | 3.5 Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial Distributions | 68, 76, 78 | Oct. 21 | 3.6 Poisson Distribution | 83, 86, 88 | Oct. 21 | 4.1 Continuous Random Variables | 3, 5, 7 | Oct. 28 | 4.2 Cumulative Distribution Function and Expected Values | 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23 | Oct. 28 | 4.3 The Normal Distribution | 33, 50, 54 | Oct. 28 | 4.4 The Gamma Distribution | 60, 63, 66 | Nov. 4 | 5.1 Jointly Distributed Random Variables | 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17 | Nov. 4 | 5.2 Expected Values, Covariance and Correlation | 22, 23, 27, 30 | Nov. 11 | 5.4 The distribution of the sample mean | 49, 50(a), 56 | Nov. 11 | 5.5 Distribution of a linear combination | 69, 72 | Nov. 11 | 6.1 General Concepts of Point Estimation | 2, 9, 11, 13, 16 | Nov. 25 | 6.2 Methods of Point Estimation | 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 | Dec. 2 | 7.1 Basic properties of confidence intervals | 1, 2, 4 | Dec. 2 | 7.2 Large sample confidence intervals | 12 , 13 | Dec. 9 | 7.3 Confidence intervals for normal population | 28 , 37, 39 | Dec. 9 |
8.1 Hypotheses and test procedures | 7 | Dec. 17 |
8.2 Tests about population mean | 20, 28, 31, 34 (a) | Dec. 17 |
8.4 P-value | 48, 55 | Dec. 17 |