Introduction to Statistics

Spring 2007
Fridays, 9:10 ~ 12:00 AM
Instructor: Dr. Berlin Chen (陳柏琳)

Topic List and Schedule:

03/02		Course Overview & Introduction
03/09		Sampling and Descriptive Statistics
03/16		Quick Review of Probability	HW-01: (Chapter 1) Exercises 8, 14, 18 (Due: 03/30)
03/23		Propagation of Error
03/30		Break (NeGSST Workshop, NTU, Taipei)	HW-02: (Chapter 2) Exercises 12, 16, 20, 26 (Due: 04/13)
04/06		Spring Break
04/13		Quick Review of Common Used Distributions (1/2)	HW-03: (Chapter 3) Exercises 2, 20, 22 (Due: 04/27)
04/20		Break (IEEE ICASSP 2007, Hawaii)
04/27		Quick Review of Common Used Distributions (2/2)	HW-04: (Chapter 4) Exercises 8, 14, 24 (Due: 05/11)
05/04		Simulation
05/11		Midterm	Scope: Chapters 1-4
05/18		Confidence Intervals
05/25		Hypothesis Testing (1/2)
06/01		Hypothesis Testing (2/2)	HW-05: (Chapter 5) Exercises 2, 18               (Chapter 6) Exercises 10, 24 (Due: 06/15)
06/08		Data Analysis and Dimension Reduction*
06/15		Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
06/22		Final	Scope: Chapters 5 - 7 (Section 5.1 ~ Section 7.3)

Textbook:
     1.   William C. Navidi, “Statistics for Engineers and Scientists,” McGraw-Hill (2 edition, 2007)

References:

1		Prem S. Mann, "Introductory Statistics," Wesley, (6 edition, 2007)
2		Ethem Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, MIT Press, 2004

TA:
    李鴻欣同學 (碩一)
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     – Tel: 29322411ext 208 (資工系208室)