ROOM: ECCR 1B51
Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness: tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression analysis. Analyzes various distribution-free methods. Prereq: MATH 4510 or APPM 3570, and Calculus 1-2-3. Same as APPM 4520.
Office: MATH 324.
Zoom Meeting:
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95774093651
Meeting ID: 957 7409 3651
(for OH or if/when in person teaching is not recommended)
Office hours: Tuesdays 10-11:30 on Zoom
Phone: 303-492-4846 (with voice mail)
Bad greeting: "Hey Professor"
Okay greeting: "Hi Professor"
Nice greeting: "Dear Professor X"
Grading will be done in two steps:
(1) You can only pass the course if the weighted average of your exams is at least 60, regardless of other factors.
This weighted average is w = (2a+2b+3c)/7, where a and b are the two MT scores and c is the score of the final.
(2) If w=60 or w>60 then we calculate your course grade (different from w), using these weights:
Attendance: 10%
Homework: 20%
Midterm 1: 20 %
Midterm 2: 20%
Final: 30%
My grader for this semester is Ambati Amulya, ambati.amulya@colorado.edu
Please direct questions like "why did I loose 2 points here" to the grader (not me).
IMPORTANT: HW must be uploaded to Canvas!
First MT: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, in class
Second MT: Monday, April 7, 2025, in class
Final: Monday May 5, 4:30-7pm, 2025, in class. (Set by registrar's office.)
Note: When students have three or more final examinations on the same day, they are entitled to arrange an alternative examination time for the last exam or exams scheduled on that day.
The text is accessable via Canvas as an e-book. Go to "my course material."
Please see the Registrar's web page, or call their office. If you still have problems, then see Ms. Autumn Franklin-Phillips at the Math. Dept. Office, please.
The Undergrad Resource Center (a.k.a. Help Lab) is a valuable resource.
Please check the hours of operation at http://math.colorado.edu/marc/
MATH 4510 is a prereq, and so is Calc 1-2-3, in particular it is assumed that students are familiar with double and multiple integrals.
From Friday to Friday. (With some exceptions.) To find them and to turn in: on Canvas.
If you are a graduate student, then please put a huge "G" at the right top corner of your HW. Thank you. And of course, please try to write in a legible way. Typing would be even better :)
(LaTeX or any other typesetting system is preferred to handwriting. If not, a nice handwriting...)
Numbers will refer to textbook, 8th Edition, with ISBN given above.
Note: The grader will check 3 randomly selected problems, but she will also check if effort was made to solve every problem. The 3 problems will be the same for each UG student.
Here you have some interesting statistical applets and Buffon's Needle Simulation -- take a look.
Example for P-values: Click
Explanation on Exponential, Gamma and Poisson: click
Please do not use Chegg ("ask a question" feature) because:
(1) Chegg's answers are frequently incorrect.
(2) Our department adopted an aggressive policy: posted questions AND answers are requested from Chegg via OIT at CU. Detected cheating results in a 0 score for the whole exam or HW.
Spring 2023 Last Day to Add or Swap a Class (11:59 p.m.)
Wednesday 1/25
Spring 2023 Last Day to Be Automatically Enrolled from a Waitlist (11:59 p.m.)
Wednesday 1/25
Spring 2023 Last Day to Drop a Class Without Penalty (11:59 p.m.)
Wednesday 2/1
Spring 2023 Waitlists Are Canceled (11:59 p.m.)
Monday 2/6
Spring 2023 Last Day to Drop a Class (11:59 p.m.)
Friday 3/24
Where is the syllabus? A: This web page IS the syllabus.
Is the final cumulative? A: Yes.
Where are the HW from? A: From the textbook.
Where is the funny accent from? A: Hungary.
I cannot come to the MT because of health issues or family emergency. What to do? A: Please show me some documentation. I can offer you to skip the MT and calculate your grade based on the other factors, proportionally.
Can I turn in the HW late? A: No. Sorry. But remember that the weight of a single assignment is very small.
This class is for UG (4520) and Grad (5520) students together. What does this mean in practice? A: HW and exams are slightly extended for grad students. See below.
I have an older edition of the textbook. Is it OK? A: Unfortunately, that can be a problem, because the HW might be different.
Do we have to remember all those horrible formulas at the exam? A: A cheat sheet will be provided for complicated formulae. Tables too.
Do I have to write to the instructor because I will skip a class or two? A: No.
An old practice MT with solution: CLICK
Solutions to an old Midterm: CLICK
A practice MT: CLICK
Solutions to MT1: CLICK
A second practice midterm before MT2: CLICK
Solutions to MT2: CLICK
Exercises for ML and N-P . (12.12 is the same as Pr 6 in the practice final, except theta_1>theta_0)