Stat134 Spring 2008 Main Page

Instructor: Nick Crawford

Time: Teus., Thurs. 12:30-2:00pm

Place: Evans 70

Office: Evans 347

OH: Teus. 2-4

GSI:
Ying: Evans 307
OH: M 12-2 W 11-1 ---------- TIME CHANGE! AGAIN!
Laura Evans 387
OH: M 2-4

Important: The are tremendous resources available for this course at the Student Learning Center.

Email: crawford at stat dot berkeley dot edu

Statistics and Probability in the News:

The Preeclampsia Puzzle, Making sense of a mysterious pregnancy disorder.	Jerome Groopman	The New Yorker, July 24, 2006
You're Getting Warmer … The new statistical rhetoric of climate change.	Daniel Engber	Slate.com, Feb. 6, 2007
The Myth, the Math, the Sex	Gina Kolata	The New York Times, August 12, 2007
In Natures Casino	Michael Lewis	The New York Times, August 26, 2007
Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices	Esther Landhuis	Stanford News Service June 7, 2004

Exam Schedule (You must make these dates to pass the class):

Midterm 1: Teusday February 26, in class at 12:30--------------NOTE DATE CHANGE!

(Courtesy Ying Xu) Midterm 1 Solutions:

Grade Distribution:

Note Date Change:

Midterm 2: Teusday April 15, at 12:30.

Location: Lewis 0009.

Midterm 2 Grade Distribution:

(Courtesy Ying Xu) Midterm 2 Solutions:

Final will be on Tuesday 5/20/08 at 5-8pm.

Location: 3106 Etcheverry.

Final Prep:

2 Finals from past classes may be found at Jim Pitman's Stat134 Website.

Caution: There are one or two problems from 6.4 and 6.5, which we have not covered and you aren't responsible for.

The Normal Approximation of the Binomial:
A link from class to Prof. West's Applet at Texas A &M.
Another Good Link (takes some patience to understand what is shown)
Homework Problems:

Course Description: Students enrolled should start here.

Lecture Schedule: I emphasize that this is approximate. I'll update it as the course evolves.