Mathematical Statistics (Math 338) Notes
Fall 2008

Introductory Information

• Course Textbook: "John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics with Applications", by Miller and Miller, Seventh Edition.
• Course Syllabus

Last set of Handouts

• Some Final Review Problems (mostly over the last part of the course)
• Last Homework Set (UPDATED DEC 9 2008)
• Last Homework Set
• List of Distributions updated to include Chi-squared

Handouts Before Exam III

• Exam 3 Sample questions.
• Homework set 3
• List of Distributions Corrected Copy, Nov 2008
• Statistics HW Set 3 (Maple)
• Maple file with some sample commands to get you started. (Right-click and choose Save Link As.. in order to save the worksheet to your local computer.) The filename is Distributions1.mw
• Another Maple file to show you how to plot discrete distributions (Dist2.mw)
• Maple file to show how the Normal distribution can be used to approximation the Binomial distribution.
• Maple file: Find the probability of getting 6 heads in 10 coin flips. Approximate using the Normal distribution.

Handouts Before Exam II

• Homework Set to Exam 2 (without the statistics portion)

Handouts Before Exam I

• Homework Set to Exam 1
• Addition to Homework: Section 3.1-3.2: Exercises 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.15, 3.84, 3.85, 3.86
• Statistics Homework Sheet 1 (Due September 17)
• Statistics Homework Sheet 2 (Due September 24)

Extra Practice

• Extra Counting Problems
• Solutions
• Some Random Questions to help you study for Exam 1.
• Solutions to the questions