STAT 131A, Fall 2007
Instructor: Michael Rosenblum
Course Description
Course Schedule
Recommended Problems
Instructor Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30-11AM, 1:00-3:00PM in Soda Hall Room 445
GSI: Brad Luen's Office Hours:
Mon 4-6,
Tue 2-4
in Rm 307 Evans
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Midterm Information
Midterm preparation material here.
Midterm extra review problems here and answers.
Quiz Information
Quiz 2 Pointers and Practice
Quiz 1 Pointers and Practice.
Quiz Rules
Extra Information From Lecture:
Computing the Standard Deviation (two formulas)
Computing the Correlation Coefficient
Summary of Basic Calculations for Draws from a Box
Optional Reading and Materials:
Vitamin C and Colds
Section 3 of: An Interesting Article on an "Experiment of Nature"
analyzed by John Snow in discovering the cause of Cholera
A paper I recently submitted on an HIV prevention trial--this is quite difficult material,
but you can get an idea of my current statistics research in causal inference if you're interested.
More on the Monty Hall Type Problem, Written by Berkeley Professor Philip Stark
Go here and scroll down a bit until you reach three green circles with question marks in the center of the page--you can play the Monty Hall Game and verify that switching is better on average
New York Times Article on Confounding (Includes quotes from Freedman, the author of our textbook)
Online tool to play with regression line, graph of averages, etc. written by Philip Stark
"Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey"
A similar study: Congo Mortality Study