Statistics                                                     Spring 2015

Course Info

• Syllabus    Navigator: C. Andy Tsao Office: SE A411.  Tel: 3520
• Lectures: Tue. 1310-1500, Thr. 1610-1700 @ SE A210
• Office Hours: Mon. 12:10-13:00, Thr. 15:10-16:00. @ SE A411 or by appointment.
• TA: 
• 林雙雙：Fri. 11:10~12:00 @A408. Tel: 3517
• 林政 彣 :  Mon. 15:10~16:00 @A408. Tel: 3517
• Prerequisites: Intro to Probability, Calculus
• Textbook:  Hogg, Tanis and Zimmerman (2015). Probability and Statistical Inference. 9th Edition, Pearson (You might use the  earlier version: Hogg and Tanis (2014). Probability and Statistical Inference. 8th Edition, Pearson)

Announcements

• Midterm:
• 時間： 1310-1440 （二）04/21.
• 地點：SE A210 (all students)
  
• 考試範圍：Materials we covered in class and some basic probability (as highlighted in class). 
• You are allowed to bring an A4 cheatsheet, a  calculator or  translator with you but no mobile phone can be used. Prepare early and Good Luck!
• Extra Office Hour: 4/20 (一) 1410-1500.
  

Assignments (No late homework is allowed.)

• Not every one dimensional object has a length:  Nonmeasurable set 
• Understanding expectation: St. Petersburg paradox
• What is a fair game? Gambler's ruin theorem
• Tea or Milk first?: Lady tasting tea, Fisher Exact test
• Attractiveness/Beauty ~ Averages?: Short Intro,  Average female faces of different countries, Demo@FaceResearch, BeautyCheck,  Papers: (Attractive Faces Are Only Average, Science of Beauty, 對稱最美@泛科學)
• 聖經密碼：聖經真有密碼嗎？(魏慶榮), The Bible Code (from Greenberg's Randomness Page)
• 你離2014的 最好工作真的很近：關鍵評論網，Wall Street Journal, CareerCast.com, Forbes (Some background)
• Data Scientist links (New)":   How to become a data scientist?  HBR 2012, Kaggle, 資策會（收費）課程, 花蓮R, Open source data scientist master, 台灣資料科學愛好者年會2014
  
• Quotations:
• All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion (Anna Karenina by Tolstooy; Penguin Books)
• 乾妹妹  歌詞  mv

• R web and Downloads: (original, mirrors @ NTU, PU)
• Free Editors for R: Tinn-R,  Context (FREE Nice Editor for Programmers)
• R ClassRoom R notes, Data Summary;  Regression Sample Output, MASS 
• Document Readers: Postscript Readers: Ghostview; Pdf Readers: Foxit, pdfxchange, Acrobat Reader
• Contributed Doc (From CRAN)
• Statistical Tables: Distribution Tables (Statistica)
• Pdf/pmf as the limiting historgram: hist.lim.r

References

• Probability and Statistical Inference. Hogg and Tanis (2014), 8^th Edition, Prentice-Hall  (Text Book. earlier versions borrowable at AM office/NDHU Library)
• Statistics: Principles and Methods. 5^th Edition. Johnson and Bhattacharyya (2006).  John/Wiley
• Moore, D. S. (2001). Statistics: Concepts and Controversies, 5th edition. Freeman and Company.
• Online StatBooks,  Stat Lib@CMU