Stat 225, Fall 2005

Section 0401


Lecture Notes

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9 ( supplement )

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13 ( Normal Distribution Table )

Week 14

Week 15 ( Fri Lecture )

Hypothesis Testing

Quizzes

Quiz 1 sol

Quiz 2 sol

Quiz 3 ( sol )

Quiz 4 sol

Quiz 5 sol

Quiz 6 ( sol )

Quiz 7 sol

Quiz 8 sol

Quiz 9 ( sol )

Quiz Schedule

(Subject to change depending on lecture progress.)

Quiz 9: Wed 12/07

Recommended/Project Readings

Games, Gods, and Gambling by F.N. David

When Genius Failed by R. Lowenstein

Lady Tasting Tea by D. Salsburg

Naive Set Theory by P.R. Halmos

Mystery of the Aleph by A.D. Aczel

How to Solve it by G. Polya

Men of Mathematics by E.T. Bell (Chp 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 14, 23, 28, 29)

Against the Gods by P. L. Bernstein

Soros on Soros by George Soros

Market Wizards by J. D. Schwager

Manias, Panics, and Crashes by C. P. Kindleberger

Online Books

(The following are references. Not to be used for Project.)

Mathworld

Introduction to Probability by C.M. Grinstead and J.L. Snell

Lecture Notes on Probability Theory and Random Processes by J. Walrand