| Due | Class | Assignment |
| 16 January | 2 | Homework 1: Introduction (Chapter 1); Stem-and-leaf plots, descriptive statistics (Chapter 3) |
| 23 January | 3 | Homework 2: More on EDA; histograms and density plots |
| 30 January | 4 | Homework 3: Q-Q plots and percentiles |
| 6 February | Paradoxes in probability: Probability and simulation | |
| 13 February | 5 | Homework 4: Random variables, probability, distributions, generating random numbers, and simulations (Chapter 4) |
| 20 February | 6 | Homework 5: Logarithms, calculating with probabilities, normal and lognormal distributions, working with pdfs and cdfs |
| 27 February | 7 | Homework 6: Probability plots, Normal approximation to binomial, moments of distributions, ticket-in-box models. |
| 6 March | 8 | Homework 7: Estimation and statistics (Chapter 5). Monte Carlo simulation. |
| 8 March | 9 | (Review) |
| 13 March | 10 | Midterm project due. Confidence intervals. Prediction and tolerance limits (Chapter 6). |
| 20 March | 11 | Homework 10: Estimators and confidence limits. |
| 27 March | 12 | Homework 11: Confidence, tolerance, and prediction limits. |
| 3 April | 13 | Homework 12: Rational decision theory. Hypothesis tests: theory, size, power, examples (Chapter 7). |
| 10 April | 14 | Final project
due.
Hypothesis tests used in environmental regulations and guidance: PA Act 2, RCRA Groundwater, EPA guidance for evaluating attainment standards. Overview of linear regression and correlation (Chapter 9), Censored data (Chapter 10), and Spatial Statistics (Chapter 12). |
All homework is due by the beginning of class on the date indicated.
Do not submit homework solutions to the professor unless it is specifically required: solutions to most problems will be provided and discussed in class. The best format is plain text, but Word, PDF, and Excel documents are fine, as well as the usual graphics files--jpeg, gif, bmp, wmf for example. Please minimize the number of attachments you send.
Questions marked with a star (*) require further exploration of topics, additional resources, or skills more advanced than the minimum needed for the course. More stars signify more difficult or time-consuming exercises.
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