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MA396-A Spring 2007 Syllabus

WeekDatesText
Section
Topic(s)
1   1/18 N/ASet Theory Review
N/AAverages
2 1/23 1/25 N/AProbability Distributions - Discrete
N/AProbability Distributions - Continuous
3 1/30 2/1 N/ACalculus Review - Fubini's Theorem
N/ACalculus Review - Optimization
4 2/6 2/8 N/AExpectation - Mean and Variance
N/AMoment Generating Functions
5 2/13 2/15 Exam I Tuesday, February 13
3.6Multivariate Distributions
6 2/20 2/22 N/AJoint, Marginal, and Conditional Distributions
N/ACovariance, Independence, Random Samples
7 2/27 3/1 5.1Estimation
5.2Point Estimation
5.3Interval Estimation
spring break 3/6 3/8  No Classes
8 3/13 3/15 5.4Properties of Estimators
5.5Minimum Variance Estimators
9 3/20 3/22 5.6Sufficient Estimators
5.7Consistent Estimators
10 3/27 3/29 Exam II Tuesday, March 27th
6.1Hypothesis Testing
6.2The Decision Rule
11 4/3 4/5 6.3Testing Binomial Data
6.4Type I and Type II Errors; Power of a Test
12 4/10 4/12 7.2The Z and t statistics
7.3The chi square distribution
7.3The t distribution
13 4/17 4/19 7.3The F distribution
7.4Inference about means and variances
14 4/24 4/26 Exam III Tuesday, April 24th
TBATopics
15 5/1 5/3 TBATopics
FINAL EXAM Date: TBA Location and Time: TBA