15.075J | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate

Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis

Assignments

Computer Assignments

There are three computer homework assignments, which comprise a total of 20% of the course grade and should be completed independently. The MATLAB® tutorial below covers the basics of MATLAB.

MATLAB Tutorial (PDF)

ASSN # ASSIGNMENTS SOLUTIONS
1 (PDF) (PDF)
2 (PDF) (PDF)
3 (PDF) (PDF)

Optional Assignments

The optional homework assignments correspond to problems from the course textbook:

Tamhane, Ajit C., and Dorothy D. Dunlop. Statistics and Data Analysis: From Elementary to Intermediate. Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780137444267.

CHAPTERS TITLES PROBLEMS
2 Review of Probability 2.25, 2.42, 2.43, 2.56, 2.62, and 2.80
3 Collecting Data 3.12, 3.17, and 3.18
4 Summarizing and Exploring Data 4.12a, 4.13bc, 4.30, 4.33, 4.35, and 4.44
5 Sampling Distributions of Statistics 5.4, 5.6, 5.11ab, 5.23, and 5.25
6 Basic Concepts of Inference 6.5abc (but not the plot), 6.15, 6.17, 6.24, 6.27abc, and 6.28
7 Inferences for Single Samples 7.3, 7.7, 7.9, 7.10, 7.12, 7.17, 7.18, and 7.19
8 Inferences for Two Samples 8.9, 8.14, 8.18, 8.20, 8.22, and 8.23
9 Inferences for Proportions and Count Data 9.2, 9.5, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 9.19, 9.20, 9.22b, and 9.24
10 Similar Linear Regression and Correlation 10.7, 10.13a, and 10.22
14 Nonparametric Statistical Methods 14.2, 14.8, and 14.9
Learning Resource Types
Problem Sets with Solutions
Exams with Solutions
Lecture Notes
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