Additional Resources for STAT 7030

Review material

Lecture Notes

Maple and Minitab files

Selected Homework solutions

Review problems and solutions

Theoretical resources on WWW

 

 

Review material

o       Formula sheet: basic probability properties. Most common probability distributions and their mean, variances and MGF. Linear combination of independent random variables and results related to random samples.

o       TI 83 commands for probability and statistics. Commands for finding confidence intervals added.

o       Exponentials and logarithms and their basic properties.

o       A useful site with plenty of formula sheets. (Professor’s Paul Dawkins at Lamar University)

 

Notes

o       Notes on Efficiency

o       Notes on Sufficiency

o       Notes on Bayesian Estimation

o       Articles on the net on Bayes Estimation

·         A Bayesian Look at Classical Estimation: The Exponential Distribution by Abdulaziz Elfessi and David M. Reineke

·         Bayes Estimators for the Continuous Uniform Distribution by A. Rossman, T Short and M. Parks

·         Comparison of Non-Informative Priors for Number of Defects (Poisson) Model by M. Tahir and Z. Hussain

o       Links on Chi-square tests with example of McNemar test

·         Stat notes by Prof. David Garson at North Carolina State University

·         The McNemar test of marginal homogeneity (has some nice insightful examples)

·         Changing students’ perspectives on McNemar test of change by Joel R. Levin and Ronald C. Serlin (in Journal of Statistics Education v.8, n.2 (2000)

·         Comparison of Several Fixation Methods for Cytomegalovirus Antigenemia Assay (article appeared in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology). Shorter synopsis of the article on the Children’s Mercy Hospital site

o       The Generalized Likelihood Ratio test for multinomial data

o       Sums of powers of integers

o       Hypothesis testing for proportions, means and variances

o       Power of a test

 

Maple and Minitab files

o       Maple file on Bayes Estimation (Jan. 20)

o       David Rivard’s presentation on Proc Tabulate in SAS

o       GLRT for variances

o       Choosing Beta distributions

 

o       Minitab session Jan 8: comparing two populations means; testing equality of two population variances.

o       Notes on designing experiments (Jan 22)

o       Maple file on computations regarding the bivariate normal distribution. Notes on the computations.(March 12)

o       Maple file on bivariate normal distribution generating bivariate normal data.

o       The distribution of sample correlation coefficient in bivariate normal data through simulations.

 

Selected Homework Solutions

·         Homework #1

·         Homework #4

·         Selected problems from Exam 1

·         Homework #8   Minitab file on pb8

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Resources on the WWW

o       The Probability Web contains links to online texts and tutorials, applets, and other resources. 

o       Introduction to Probability by Laurie Snell (pdf file)

o       The Mathematical Atlas: Statistics rich collection of sites, tutorials and applications of statistics.

o       Engineering Statistics Handbook

o       Minitab online resources

o       The most complete online resource on the life and work of Sir Francis Galton

o       CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library: wonderful resource for thousands of scientific articles (lots of them in statistics)

o       A useful site with plenty of formula sheets. (Professor’s Paul Dawkins at Lamar University)

o       A plot of the density of the bivariate normal distribution neat site with animation

o       Teaching with original sources in mathematics (wonderful site in the history of mathematics)

 

Statistics articles on the WWW

o       Article: How large does n have to be for Z and t intervals? By Dennis Boos and Jaqueline Hughes-Oliver

o       Journal of Statistics Education

o       Oil and Gas on Indian Reservations: Statistical Methods Help to Establish Value for Royalty Purposes in Journal of Statistics Education

o       NASCAR Winston Cup Race Results for 1975-2003 in Journal of Statistics Education

o       Pig Data and Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities in Journal of Statistics Education

o       TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study in PloS Medicine (Public Library of Science)

o       Statisical study: The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning.

o       Interesting article on Goodness of fit test

o       The Regression Fallacy about Galton’s study on height of parents and children