FALL SEMESTER 2013
STAT 400 -- Applied Probability and Statistics I
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS.

Text Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics, 8th edition.

The numbers below refer to the problems at the end of the corresponding section, NOT the supplememntary excercises.

Section Assignment Due
2.1 Sample Space and Events 2 Sept. 16
2.2 Axioms, Interpritations and Properties of Probability 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26 Sept. 16
2.3 Counting Techniques 29, 30 31, 33, 34, 35, 40, 42 Sept. 23
2.4 Conditional Probability 46, 51, 59, 61, 62, 65 Sept. 30
2.5 Independence 72, 74, 80, 84 Sept. 30
3.2 Probability Distributions for Descrete Random Variables 13, 15, 18, 23, Oct. 7
3.3 Expected Values 32, 35 Oct. 7
3.4 Binomial Distribution 47, 53, 61 Oct. 21
3.5 Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial Distributions 68, 76, 78 Oct. 21
3.6 Poisson Distribution 83, 86, 88 Oct. 21
4.1 Continuous Random Variables 3, 5, 7 Oct. 28
4.2 Cumulative Distribution Function and Expected Values 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23 Oct. 28
4.3 The Normal Distribution 33, 50, 54 Oct. 28
4.4 The Gamma Distribution 60, 63, 66 Nov. 4
5.1 Jointly Distributed Random Variables 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17 Nov. 4
5.2 Expected Values, Covariance and Correlation 22, 23, 27, 30 Nov. 11
5.4 The distribution of the sample mean 49, 50(a), 56 Nov. 11
5.5 Distribution of a linear combination 69, 72 Nov. 11
6.1 General Concepts of Point Estimation 2, 9, 11, 13, 16 Nov. 25
6.2 Methods of Point Estimation 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 Dec. 2
7.1 Basic properties of confidence intervals 1, 2, 4 Dec. 2
7.2 Large sample confidence intervals 12 , 13 Dec. 9
7.3 Confidence intervals for normal population 28 , 37, 39 Dec. 9
8.1 Hypotheses and test procedures 7 Dec. 17
8.2 Tests about population mean 20, 28, 31, 34 (a) Dec. 17
8.4 P-value 48, 55 Dec. 17