Statistics 200: Introduction to Statistical Inference

Winter 2007

Professor Joseph Romano, romano@stanford.edu

Tuesday, Thursday 2:15—3:30 in Building 200, Room 002

Office Hours: 142 Sequoia Hall, Monday 10-11 and Wednesday 2-3 in Econ 227

Teaching Assistants:

The teaching assistants for the course together with their room numbers in Sequoia Hall, phone extensions, email addresses and office hours (when

they become available) are as follows:

Bo Shen: Room 229, 5-5988, bshen@stanford.edu Tuesday 4-6, Friday 5-7.

Jiaqi Shen: Room 240, 5-5952, jqshen@stanford.edu Monday 3:35-5:35, Thursday 9-11.

Nick Annoni: Room 206, 5-6148, ndannoni@stanford.edu Wednesday 4:30-6:30, Friday 3-5.

The required textbook is John Rice's book entitled, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 3rd edition.

For a course syllabus, click here

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1: (Due Thursday, January 17 at the beginning of class) 1.48, 2.68, 3.33, 3.34, 3.68, 4.52, 4.54. Solutions are
Problem Set 2: (Due Thursday January 24 at the beginning of class) 4.58, 4.72, 5.1, 5.7, 5.16, 5.20, 5.24. Solutions are
Problem Set 3: (Due Tuesday Feb 5 at the beginning of class) Download here Solutions are
Problem Set 4: (Due Thursday Feb 21 at the beginning of class) From Chapter 8: 16, 18, 21, 48, 55ab, 56, 68. Solutions are

Problem Set 5: (Due TUESDAY March 4 at, no joke, the beginning of class) From Chapter 9: 6, 12, 18, 20, 32, 34, 44. Solutions are
Problem Set 6: (Due Thursday March 13) From Chapter 11: 16, 35, 39, 52. From Chapter 13: 6, 8, 16. Solutions are
Problem Set 7: (none this year!)

One of my past finals can be downloaded HERE. Further practice exam problems can be found here