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What Applied Statistics
When Mondays @10 AM, Tuesdays @ 9AM, Wednesdays @ 8AM and Fridays @ 12 Noon
Where NAC 522 (Seminar Hall)
Instructor Sivaram Ambikasaran
Mailing list Search for 2022_appstat on google groups via your smail account
Office hours: Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 PM (Send an email before you drop by)
Short Syllabus
Review of Probability: Basic probability, Conditioning and Bayes rule, Independence, Counting, Discrete & Continuous Random Variables, Multiple Random variables
Statistics: Law of large numbers, Central Limit theorem, Sampling statistics, Estimation, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing, Analysis of variance, Linear regression, Goodness of fit, Nonparametric hypothesis testing, Quality Control, Machine learning and Big data
Textbooks
Introduction to Probability, Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis
Introductory Statistics, Sheldon M Ross
Other "random" stuff
George Burns on TV being interviewed on his 100th birthday: George Burns was puffing on a cigar and the interviewer made a comment about the negative correlation between longevity and smoking.
George Burns: "Twenty years ago my doctor told me that these cigars were going to kill me in the next five years with a probability of 99%"
Interviewer: "What does he say now?"
George Burns: "I don't know. He's dead"
