Math 152 – Fall 2007

Mathematical Statistics

Professor Hardin

 

Homework Assignments:

 

Text: Probability & Statistics, DeGroot & Schervish

 

 

Due Date

Chapter

Problems:

HW #1

Thurs 9/13

6.2

6.3

6,9,10,11

7,8,9,11,14,21

HW #2

Thurs 9/20

6.4

3, 10, 11, 12  + Bayes and baseball

HW #3

Thurs 9/27

6.5

6.6

2, 3, 5, 12

6, 7, 9, 13 + 2 MOM questions

HW #4

Thurs 10/4

7.1

7.2

7.4

2

2, 4, 5, 9, 10

3, 6

HW #5

Thurs 10/11

7.5

7.6

1, 4, 5, 6, 7

5, 8, 9, 19

HW #6

Thurs 10/18

7.7

7.8

 

7.9

11

4, 5 (& show that the unbiased est of sigma^2 is not efficient),

14 (you don’t need to actually find the MLE), 16

15

HW #7

Tues 11/6

8.1

1, 4, 6, 9, 13 (use the table in the back of your book), 14 (note: theta * sum(xi) ~ Gamma(n,1))

HW #8

Thurs 11/8

8.1

8.2

15

2, 4, 6, 8

HW #9

Friday 11/16 noon

8.3

3, 6, 8, 9, 13, 18

HW #10

Tues 11/20

8.4

8.5

4,5,12 (for 4 & 5 you can leave your answer as two equations and two unknowns)

5

HW #11

solutions

Thurs 11/29

8.8

8.9

8.10

1, 4

2

18

HW #12

solutions

Tues 12/11

9.1

9.3

 

4, 5, 8

1, 2, 4

plus one extra problem