Live lectures for Stats 210

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L1: Sample spaces & events Ch 1, 3-5     Play     SWF    
L2: Probability and random variables Ch 1, 6-10     Play     SWF    
      Binomial distribution, CDF Ch 1, 10-16     Play     SWF    
L3: Conditional probability, Independence      Ch 1, 16-21     Play     SWF    
L4: Bayes Theorem, Partition Theorem     Ch 1, 21-27     Play     SWF    
L5: Inference, Hypothesis tests     Ch 2, 33-37     Play     SWF    
L6: p-values      Ch 2,38-42   Play     SWF    
L7: Presidents and Divers      Ch 2, 42-47     Play     SWF    
L8: Limitations of p-values, Ice hockey     Ch 2, 48-52     Play     SWF    
       Influence of n and x on p-value: PDF    
       Language for strength of evidence: PDF    
L9: Likelihood     Ch 2, 52-58     Play     SWF    
L10: Estimators     Ch 2, 58-63     Play     SWF    
L11: Expectation     Ch 2, 64-72     Play     SWF    
L12: Variable transformations     Ch 2, 72-78     Play     SWF    
L13: Variance      Ch 2, 79-84     Play     SWF    
L14: One or two-tailed tests; Estimators     Ch 2/3, 85-93     Play     SWF    
L15: Geometric, NegBin      Ch 3, 93-103     Play     SWF    
L16: Poisson distribution     Ch 3, 104-111     Play     SWF    
L17: Log-lik, Subjective Models, Regression     Ch 3, 112-117     Play     SWF    
L18: Regression modelling Read p.123-128     Ch 3, 117-122     Play     SWF    
L19: Continuous r.v.s     Ch 4,123-133     Play     SWF    
L20: CDF; Exponential distribution     Ch 4, 132-137     Play     SWF    
L21: Exponential; Likelihood     Ch 4, 137-144     Play     SWF    
       See L14 for one- or two-tailed tests    
L22: Expectation; Change of Variable     Ch 4, 144-156     Play     SWF    
L23: Uniform, Gamma; Normal; CLT     Ch 4/5, 151-169     Play     SWF    
L24: CLT, Confidence Intervals     Ch 5, 170-177     Play     SWF    
Chapter 6: for reading.    


The annotated PDFs are available from the Notes page.