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

    • Lectures: (Knudsen 1240B), MWF, 1:00-1:50 PM

    Discussions Section Information
    Section IDSectionClassroomTimeTA Name
    2630312215aGeology 4645 T 2:00-2:50 PM William Anderson
    2630312225bBoelter 9436 R 4:00 - 4:50 PM Yan Xiong
    2630312235cBoelter 5280 R 2:00 - 2:50 PM William Anderson

    Instructor Office: Main: MS 8143E (alternative: CHS, UCLA School of Medicine, Reed 4-238, by appt. only)
    TA Offices:William 3955 MS; Trudy 3969 MS
    Virtual Office Hours (STAT10-5 Forum)
     STAT Computer Lab: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/undergraduate/icl/
    Grading policy and basis for Final Grade:
    HW Assignment Policy:

    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

    Prof. Dinov is very thankful to Prof. Christopher Wild and Prof. George Seber, for providing many useful teaching aids and other support for this class.
    Ivo D. Dinov, Ph.D., Departments of Statistics & Neurology, UCLA