Extended office hour before the midterm: Oli, Monday 3-4 and
5-6 pm,
Tue, Lukasz 3:05 until 4 pm. Also in Eckhart 131. Per Monday 1-2 pm Eck
128.
Extended office hour before the final: Oli, Monday 12/6, 3-5
pm
in Eckhart 131. Per, Thu 12/2 and Tue 12/7 (exact time 2 pm). Also review
session on Fri 12/3.
Review session: Fridays 4-5pm in Eckhart 203 (not in week 1)
Class is each Wednesday 6-9 pm. Instead of class on Nov 24
(the day before Thanksgiving), there will be a class on
Fri Nov 19. This class starts at 6 pm central time as usual.
The following rules apply to HW: you are welcome and encouraged
to cooperate, or to work in a group. However: HW has to be turned in
separately for each person, and an effort should be made to make
HWs for people in the same group as different as possible. One way to do this
is to discuss the problems, but not compose a joint solution.
All members of a group need to declare their group on each HW.
Collaboration with undeclared other students may constitute a breach
of academic rules, and is a serious matter.
If basic probability becomes a problem:.
A good description is the first four chapters of
John Rice's Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis (2nd ed., Duxbury
Press). This is the textbook in Stat 24400, and can be found at the
University Bookstore.
An even more basic book, extremely well written, is
Statistics by D. Freedman, R. Pisani, and R. Purves (3rd ed,
Norton). This is the textbook in Stat 20000, and can be found at the
University Bookstore.
So long as we are in the finite state space setting: proofs for conditional
expectations and Radon-Nikodym derivatives should be done by
reformulating the problem in terms of conditioning on sets in
partitions.
