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Stat 500    Fall 1999
Stat 500  meets MWF 10:10-11:00 am (104 Thomas Building)

Instructor:   Mosuk Chow,  Office: 315 Thomas Building
                          phone: 863-8128 ( e-mail: mchow@stat.psu.edu)
                          office hours: M , Wed, Thur  1:15-2:15pm  or by appointment

Grader:          Qiu, Li   (e-mail: lqiu@stat.psu.edu)    Office: 333  Thomas Building
                          phone: 863-3374
                         office hours: Friday 11:30-1:30 pm or by appointment

 Final exam result and grades for the course

HW Assignments
 
 HW1 
Due Sept 10
 HW2 
Due Sept 17
 HW3
Due Sept 24
 Practice hw (assigned Sept24)  HW 4 
Due Oct 8
  HW5 Due Oct 15
 HW6 Due Oct 22  HW7 Due Oct 29

Exams :  Midterm 1  Oct 1,   Midterm 2  Nov 5

 Syllabus
 

Powerpoint notes
 
Oct 6  Oct8

Final Project :  Due Dec 3
 

 Useful documents:
      1: Course content                4. Is he guilty (An example for setting up hypotheses)
           2. Introduction to Minitab 12
           3. example for using Minitab
 
 

 Interesting websites:
       1. Monty Hall Problem (conditional probability)
          2. Simulation for sampling distribution (Rice University simulation lab)
          3. Power   This  module demonstrates how power is affected by sample size, significance level, and the difference between
                            the "actual" mean and the null mean.
 

Textbook is on reserve in Math Library.