This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Assignments

The problem sets are due in the sessions listed in the table. Some of the problems are assigned from the required text.

Buy at Amazon Rice, John A. Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780534399429.

SES # ASSIGNMENTS RELATED HANDOUTS
4 Problem set 1 (PDF) Remarks-PS1 (PDF), addnormals (PDF), convol-gamma-chisq (PDF), gravconstandR (PDF), normalsamples (PDF)
7 Problem set 2 (PDF) Remarks-PS2 (PDF), binom-confintervals (PDF)
10 Problem set 3 (PDF) Remarks-PS3 (PDF), bestfitbysquaredist (PDF), turningpoints (PDF), Airpressure (PDF)
16 Problem set 4 (PDF) Bayesestimates (PDF)
19 Problem set 5 (PDF) Chisquaretest (PDF), meansqerr (PDF), wilks (PDF)
22 Problem set 6 (PDF) None
27 Problem set 7 (PDF) Deltameth (PDF), twobytwo (PDF)
30 Problem set 8 (PDF) Gammabeta (PDF), samplequantiles (PDF)
33 Problem set 9 (PDF) Medfly_Mortality (XLS)
Two days after Ses #38 Problem set 10 (PDF) None