Math 152 – Fall 2008

Statistical Theory

Jo Hardin

 

Homework Assignments:

 

Text: Probability & Statistics, DeGroot & Schervish

 

 

Due Date

Chapter

Problems:

HW #1

Thurs 9/11

6.2

6.3

6,9,10,11

7,8,9,11,14,21

HW #2

Thurs 9/18

6.4

3, 10, 12 + baseball & Bayes

HW #3

Thurs 9/25

6.4

6.5

11

2, 3, 5, 11, 12

HW #4

Thurs 10/2

6.6

7.1

3, 6, 7, 13

2, 4  + 2 MOM questions

HW #5

Thurs 10/9

7.2

7.4

7.5

4, 5, 9, 10

3, 6

4, 6, 7

HW #6

Tues 10/14

7.6

5, 8, 9 -- SOLUTIONS

HW #7

Thurs 10/30

7.8

 

7.9

4, 5 (AND show that the unbiased est of sigma^2 is not efficient), 14 (you don’t actually need to find the MLE, 16

15, 18

HW #8

Thurs 11/6

8.1

1, 6, 9, 13 (use the table in the back of your book),

14 (note: theta * sum(xi) ~ Gamma(n,1)),

15

 

HW #9

Thurs 11/13

8.2

2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11 -- SOLUTIONS

HW #10

Thurs 11/20

8.3

8.5

3, 6, 13, 15, 18

12, 13, 14, 15, 16 -- SOLUTIONS

HW #11

Tues 12/9

8.8

8.10

9.1

1, 2, 4

18

4, 5, 8, 9

Plus one extra problem -- SOLUTIONS