Course Information

Lecturer

STATS 210 FC, 2012

Steffen Klaere

Office: Commerce A, Room 130
Phone: (373 7599) ext 85237 or 923 5237.
Email: here

Office hours:

Tuesday 2pm - 3pm, and Wednesday 2pm - 3pm

Meetings

STATS 210 meets Tuesday 10am-12pm in ALR1 and Wednesday 10am-11am in HSB370.
There is a tutorial from 2pm-4pm in ALR1. Tutorial marks account for up to 8% of your final mark.

Term Test

The mid-semester test will be held during the lecture time on Tuesday 24th April. The test is one hour long and will cover material from the first 6 weeks of lectures. More details will be given in class.

Aim of the Course

This is a course in Mathematical Statistics. To meet the prerequisites you must be enrolled in, or have already passed, a Stage II Maths paper with Calculus. STATS 210 introduces the elegant theory underpinning statistics. You must be familiar with mathematical language and with the elementary statistical concepts taught in Stage I. The pace of the lectures and material covered are geared towards average to excellent students, who should find the course challenging and interesting. If you are weak in either mathematics or statistics, i.e. if you have a C or less in any Stage I or Stage II papers in these subjects, you might find this course difficult.

Assessment

There are 4 assignments, due in weeks 4, 6, 9 and 11, worth 10% of your final grade. Tutorials are compulsory and contribute 8%. There is one term test worth 7%. The final exam counts for either 75% or 100%, whichever gives you the better mark. Note that to qualify for consideration for 100% exam, you must attain at least 70% on the coursework components. You need to score at least 50% on the exam to pass the course.

Assignments

The assignments are intended to help you understand the course material by working through problems. Questions will be set at a similar difficulty to those on the Test and Exam. Each assignment is assessed. We encourage you to discuss assignment work with other students in the class, and you can see your lecturer for additional help. However, you must write up your own work, otherwise you get no marks.

Assignment	Due Date: Tuesday 4pm
1	March 20
2	April 3
3	May 15
4	May 29

Copies of the current assignments, together with some tests, exams and model answers from previous semesters will be available on the Course Website.

Text/Notes

Notes are in the form of a lecture workbook with blank spaces to be filled in during lectures. The lecture workbook for Semester 1, 2012 is already available (free of charge) from the Statistics Department Office, Level 1, Commerce A. Please try to pick up your copy before the first lecture.

There are lots of textbooks that are useful for extra reference, for example:

Rice, John A. (1995). Mathematical statistics and data analysis, 2nd edition.
Library call number 519.5 R49.
3rd edition - Short Loan (2 hours) Library call number 519.5 R49 (2007).