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This document provides information about STAT418 Statistics course offered in spring 2013 including time, location, instructor, grader, textbook, topics to be covered, exam structure, homework, and grading breakdown. The course will be taught by Professor Bing Li on MWF from 11:15am-12:05pm in room 013 of the Life Science Building. There will be two midterms and a final exam worth 40% each. Homework will make up the remaining 20% of the grade. The textbook is Probability and Stochastic Processes by Yales and Goodman.

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Stat 418.1 Li

This document provides information about STAT418 Statistics course offered in spring 2013 including time, location, instructor, grader, textbook, topics to be covered, exam structure, homework, and grading breakdown. The course will be taught by Professor Bing Li on MWF from 11:15am-12:05pm in room 013 of the Life Science Building. There will be two midterms and a final exam worth 40% each. Homework will make up the remaining 20% of the grade. The textbook is Probability and Stochastic Processes by Yales and Goodman.

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STATISTICS 418 (Spring, 2013, section 1)

Time and Place MWF 11:15 am – 12:05 pm, 013 Life Science Building.

Instructor information

1. Bing Li, Professor of Statistics

2. Office: 410 Thomas Building

3. email: [email protected]

4. Office hours: MWF 4:00pm – 5:00pm

Grader information:

1. Grader: Ms. Hao Han

2. Office hours and place: to be announced.

3. Office: to be announced.

4. email: [email protected]

Textbook: Probability and Stochastic Processes, 2nd edition, by Yales and Goodman.

Course coverage:

1. Probability axioms, conditional probability, and combinatorics;

2. Discrete random variables;

3. Random variables with continuous distributions;

4. Jointly distributed random variables and random vectors;

5. Stochastic processes.

Examinations: There will be two midterms and a final exam. They will be closed-
book and in-class. You may bring a double-sided page of notes and a calculator.
Homework: Homework will be assigned after each class, and will be collected and
graded roughly every week. Late homework will not be accepted.
Evaluation: Midterms 40 %. Final 40%. Homework 20%.

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Penn State welcomes students with disabilities into the University’s educational
programs. If you have a disability-related need for reasonable academic adjustments in
this course, contact the Office for Disability Services (ODS) at 814-863-1807 (V/TTY).
For further information regarding ODS, please visit the Office for Disability Services
Web site at http://equity.psu.edu/ods/.
In order to receive consideration for course accommodations, you must contact ODS
and provide documentation (see the documentation guidelines at http://equity.psu.edu/
ods/guidelines/documentation-guidelines ). If the documentation supports the need for
academic adjustments, ODS will provide a letter identifying appropriate academic ad-
justments. Please share this letter and discuss the adjustments with your instructor as
early in the course as possible. You must contact ODS and request academic adjust-
ment letters at the beginning of each semester

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