STATISTICS
430: PROBABILITY
Spring
2007
Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:30 and 10:30-12:00
Huntsman Hall G50
The primary source of basic course information is the syllabus,
available here.
FINAL EXAM INFORMATION: The final exam will be held Thursday, April
26,
3-5 pm, in College Hall 200. Students who cannot take the final exam at
the scheduled time because of a conflict with another exam may take the
makeup exam, Friday April 27, 3-5 pm, in JMHH 240.
PROFESSOR: Mark Low
Email: lowm ATT wharton DOTTT upenn DOTTT edu
Office: Huntsman Hall 443. Office hours: Monday 12-1.
TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
Note that these office hours are subject to change.
Stat-Lab: Each semester, the statistics department reserves a
room (Huntsman F96) for Stat-Lab, a place where any student taking a statistics
class can come to ask questions about class topics and homework. It is designed
to be an informal setting where students can get one-on-one help with
statistics. It is open five days a week (the exact day-to-day hours vary, check
the schedule below), and is staffed by statistics graduate students.
Here is this semester's Stat-Lab
location and schedule.
Michael will staff the Tuesday 3pm-5pm
shift. Xu will staff the Friday 10 am-12 pm
shift. The grad students who staff the other shifts will most likely be able to
help you with the course material, too.
GRADING:
Homework will be assigned each week to turn in, but will not (with some
exceptions, as mentioned on the syllabus) be a part of your semester grade.
There will be two midterms, each worth 25% of the semester grade, and a final
exam worth 50%.
IMPORTANT DATES:
·
First Midterm in class,
Wednesday, February
7
·
Second Midterm in class, Wednesday,
March 21
·
Final
Exam
Thursday, April 26, 3-5 pm
HOMEWORK AND COURSE DOWNLOADS:
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Practice exam for Midterm 1. Solutions (as a pdf). Solutions (as a Word document).
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Practice exam for Midterm 2.
Solutions to problems 1-3. Solutions to problems
4-6
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Practice Final Exam. Solutions.
·
Homework 1 (due Monday, January 22): section 1.3: 8, 9; section 1.4: 1,
8, 11. Solutions.
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Homework 2 (due Wednesday, January 24): section 1.5: 3, 4; section 1.6:
5, 7. Solutions (as a pdf). Solutions (as a Word document). (Note
that problem 7 in section 1.6 has multiple possible solutions.)
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Homework 3 (due Monday, January 29): review problems 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11;
section 2.1: 7, 12, 13, 14. Solutions. (NOTE: The
errors in the solutions to review problems 8 and 10 and problem 2.1.14c have
been fixed. have been fixed.)
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Homework 4 (due Monday, February 5): section 2.4: 3, 4; section 2.5: 3,
8. Solutions.
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Midterm 1. Solutions (part
1). Solutions (part 2).
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Homework 5 (due Wednesday, February 21): section 3.2: 6, 8; section 3.3:
2, 3, 4, 5, 9. Solutions.
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Homework 6 (due Monday, February 26): section 3.4: 1, 3, 4, 11. (You may
also wish to solve Section 3.3, problems 16, 19 and 23; and Section 3.4,
problems 7, 12, 13 and 18, but do not turn these in.) Solutions. Answers to suggested problems.
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Homework 7 (due Monday, March 12): section 3.5: 11, 12, 15. Solutions.
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Homework 8 (due Monday, March 19): section 4.1: 2, 7; section 4.2:
4, 5, 6. Solutions.
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Homework 9 (due Monday, March 19--same time as Homework 8): section
4.5: 1, 4, 5. Solutions.
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Midterm 2. Solutions
(problems 1, 2 and 4). Solutions
(problem 3).
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Homework 10 (not to be turned in): section 6.1: 2, 4, 5a; section
6.2: 1, 4a, 6, 10; section 6.3: 1, 2, 9. Solutions.
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Homework 11 (not to be turned in): section 6.4: 6, 10, 21;
section 6.5: 2, 4. Solutions.
Last Updated: April 24, 2007.