Basic Statistics and Probability (2018/19)

6 ECTS credits (4 Boston U. credits)

International program UAM-BU

Instructor: Amparo Baíllo

► Guía docente de la asignatura (official UAM syllabus)

► Prerequisites: Good background in High School Algebra

► Minimum attendance requirement:

Attendance is compulsory. All exams are required.

Make up exams will be given only under very special circumstances.

► Classroom and timetable:

Classroom 01.00.AU.312 at the UAM Sciences Faculty

Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12:30-13:20; Thursdays 11:30-13:20

Official UAM timetable

► Office hours: By appointment, either by e-mail or personally in the classroom.

► Textbook: MCCLAVE, J. and SINCICH, T. Statistics. Pearson Education International.

The latest edition is 13th, but any other recent one will do.

► Lecture notes:

● Chapter 1: Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking

● Chapter 2: Methods for Describing Sets of Data

● Chapter 3: Probability

● Chapter 4: Discrete Random Variables

● Chapter 5: Continuous Random Variables

● Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions

Applet to visualize the sampling distribution of sample means for some parametric populations.

● Chapter 7: Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals

● Chapter 8: Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis

● Chapter 9: Inferences Based on Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses

► Homework problems:

● Chapter 1

● Chapter 2

● Chapter 3

● Chapter 4

● Chapter 5

Solutions to: 5.3, 5.4, 5.28, 5.62

● Chapter 6

Solutions to: 6.14, 6.15, 6.28, 6.38

● Chapter 7

Solutions to: 7.33, 7.55, 7.65, 7.82, 7.88, 7.98

● Chapter 8

Solutions to: 8.13, 8.16, 8.40, 8.80, 8.163

● Chapter 9

Solutions to: 9.6, 9.9, 9.19

► Datasets:

● APHASIA.txt

● bodyfat.txt

● Cavendish.txt

● cuckoodat.txt

● WhyallaWindSpeed.txt

● GOBIANTS.txt

● car-speeds-100.txt

● chips-ahoy.txt

► Tables:

● Normal

● Binomial

● t

► Cheatsheet with confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (last updated 24 November 2018)

► Evaluation procedures:

During the semester, two quizzes and a midterm will be given. The final grade

will be determined as follows: the final exam will count 40%, the midterm will

count 30%, each quiz will count 15%. The dates are fixed in advance in the official timetable.

► Exams 2018/19:

● Quizzes:

Quiz 1: Quiz1. Solutions.

Quiz 2: Quiz2. Solutions

● Midterm: Mid Term. Solutions.

● Final: Final. Solutions

► On the R software:

● To download R: The R Project for Statistical Computing

● To download RStudio (a free and accessible R interface): RStudio

● A manual, written by E. Paradis: “R for beginners”