UCLA STAT 10 (5a, 5b & 5c) Winter 2002

Introduction to Statistical Reasoning

    http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~dinov/

UCLA Department of Statistics - STAT 10 - Statistical Reasoning


Instructor:
Ivo D. Dinov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Statistics,
Research Scientist, Department of Neurology,
UCLA School of Medicine
E-mail:
Teaching Assistants:
  • Yan Xiong (section 5b) E-mail: yanxiong@stat.ucla.edu and
  • William Anderson (sections 5a & 5c) E-mail: wanders@stat.ucla.edu


  • Textbook: Statistics by Freedman, D., Pisani, R., and Purves, R. (1998). Third Edition.
      Tentative order of topics covered
    1. Introduction, Experiments, Ch. 1
    2. Observational Studies, Ch. 02
    3. Graphics, Histograms Ch. 03
    4. Numerical Summaries, Ch. 4
    5. The Normal Curve, Ch. 5
    6. Percentiles, Transformations, Ch. 5
    7. Correlation, Ch. 8
    8. Regression, Ch. 10
    9. Probability, Ch. 13
    10. The Simple Linear Model (supplement)
    11. Expected Values, Ch. 17
    12. Proportions, Ch. 20
    13. Confidence Intervals, Ch. 21
    14. Central Limit Theorem. The Accuracy of Averages, Ch. 23
    15. Hypothesis Testing, Ch. 26

    Ivo D. Dinov, Ph.D., Departments of Statistics & Neurology, UCLA