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Math 3215 Fall 2006 -- Probability and Statistics
Questions and some answers, M3215C, Fall 2006
Course ScheduleFall2006.pdf
Homework.pdf
M3215Test1 fall06.pdf
M3215Test1Fall06AnswerKey
M3215Test2 fall06.pdf
M3215Test2Fall06AnswerKey
M3215Test3 fall06.pdf
M3215Test3Fall06AnswerKey
A SESSION FOR YOUR QUESTIONS before final exam will be held Sunday at 4PM.
FINAL EXAM IS Monday at 2:50 in our usual room. Bring your book; you may bring calculator and 8 cheat sheets. Exam is comprehensive. In addition to material you were responsible for up test 3, it includes the first two sections of chapter 8 on hypothesis testing.
LAST-MINUTE QUESTION SESSION: I hope to do this Sunday afternoon sometime, I will have to put up the exact time later.
You will notice that the answer key to the tests are now on this page.
THE THIRD TEST ON DEC 1 (Friday) will cover section 4.4 (just the Jacobian technique on page 230), 5.3 through 5.6, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5 up to page 367 (omit rest of that section), 6.6 (page 373 only from that secion), 6.7, and 6.8. ON THE THIRD TEST, you must bring your TEXTBOOK, and you may have four cheat sheets as well.
THE THIRD HOMEWORK will be turned in the Monday following the test. But please do the homework before the test!
PLEASE NOTE that one more homework problem was added, a single problem from section 6.6 (problem 2b).
THE SECOND TEST ON OCT 27 (and second homework) will cover section 2.6, all of chapter 3, and sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, (skip 4.4 for now), 4.5, 4.6, (skip section 4.7), and section 5.2
ON THE SECOND TEST, you must bring your TEXTBOOK, and you may have two cheat sheets as well, as before.
THE SECOND HOMEWORK may be turned in the Monday following the test. But please do the homework before the test!
ON THE FIRST TEST, you may have TWO SHEETS OF PAPER as formula sheets, you can write anything on both sides of both sheets; and a calculator. NO BOOK for this FIRST TEST.
FIRST HOMEWORK to be turned in is all problems through section 2.5.
FIRST TEST ON FRI SEPT 22 goes through section 2.5
The following articles are not part of the required coursework, they are merely for your intellectual enlightenment.
Here is an article on the early development of probability:
http://www.glennshafer.com/assets/downloads/articles/article50.pdf
Here is an English translation from Bernoulli's famous work Ars Conjectandi (1713), where what we know now as the "law of large numbers" was first considered and proved. It can be enlightening (though sometimes challenging) to read the original sources, to get insight into how they came up with the ideas which shaped our thinking.
http://www.sheynin.de/download/bernoulli.pdf
For the philosophically inclined, here is an article by Laplace:
http://www.lclark.edu/~olsen/summ2006/chaos/LaPlace.html