Statisitcs 205: Winter 2003
Professor Joseph Romano, romano@stat.stanford.edu, 142
Sequoia Hall
Course meets MWF 2:15-3:05, Applied Physics 200
Office hours are tentatively scheduled for Mon 10:00-10:50,
Wed 12:00-12:50, and Fri 1:15-2:05.
Teaching Assistants:
The teaching assistants for the course (and their email addresses)
are Ruixue Liu (ruixue@stat),
and Ery Arias Castro (acery@stat).
Their office numbers and office hours are as follows:
Ery, Wednesday 10-12, in Sequoia 141
Ruixue, Tuesday and Thursday from 3:10 to 4:10, Room 223.
Note: On Wednesday January 15, Ery will be out of town,
but Ruixue will hold office hours then instead. Ery will
hold Ruixue's office hours the following week.
Texts and background material
The required textbooks are
"Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks,"
revised
first edition,
by Erich Lehmann,
published by Prentice Hall;
"An Introduction to the Bootstrap", by Bradley Efron and Robert
Tibshirani. Both should be available at the bookstore.
Syllabus
A copy of the syllabus can be found
by clicking
HERE
Problem sets
- Problem Set 1: (Due January 17)
Due on January 17, Friday, at the beginning of class.
From Chapter 1 of Lehmann: 7, 23, 25, 31, 39, 47.
- Problem Set 2: (Due January 29)
From the Appendix, Problem 35; From Chapter 1,
Problem 51; From Chapter 2, Problems 10, 13, 44, 52.
- Problem Set 3: (Due February 5)
From Chapter 2: 19, 20, 21. From Chapter 3: 34, 35, 61.
- Problem Set 4: (Due February 12)
From Chapter 4: 6, 13, 23, 37, 60, 63.
- Problem Set 5: (Due February 19)
From Chapter 1:65; From Chapter 5: 8,9; From Chapter 6:1,9; From
Chapter 7: 17.
- Problem Set 6: (Due February 26)
From Efron and Tibshirani: 5.1, 5.4, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.9.
- Problem Set 7: (Due March 7) From Efron and
Tibshirani: 10.1, 11.4, 11.8, 11.12, 12.4, 13.4.
Final Project: Due March 17.