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MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Vu Dinh
Departments of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Delaware
August 28th, 2018
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
General information
Classes:Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:45 am, Gore Hall 115
Office hours: Tuesday–Wednesday 1-2:30 pm, Ewing Hall 312
Website: http://vucdinh.github.io/m450f18
Textbook: Modern mathematical statistics with applications(Second Edition). Devore and Berk. Springer, 2012.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Evaluation
Overall scores will be computed as follows:25% homework, 10% quizzes, 25% midterm, 40% final
No letter grades will be given for homework, midterm, or final.Your letter grade for the course will be based on your overallscore.
The lowest homework scores and the lowest quiz score will bedropped.
Here are the letter grades you can achieve according to youroverall score.
≥ 90%: At least A≥ 75%: At least B≥ 60%: At least C≥ 50%: At least D
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Homework
Assignments will be posted on the website every otherTuesday (starting from the second week) and will be due onThursday of the following week, at the beginning of lecture.
No late homework will be accepted.
The lowest homework scores will be dropped in the calculationof your overall homework grade.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Quizzes and exams
At the end of some chapter, there will be a short quiz duringclass.
The quiz dates will be announced at least one class inadvance.
The lowest quiz score will be dropped.
There will be a midterm on 10/25 and a final exam duringexams week.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Data analysis
Open source statistical system R
http://cran.r-project.org/
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Topics
Textbook: Modern mathematical statistics with applications(Second Edition).Devore and Berk. Springer, 2012.
Week 1 · · · · · ·• Chapter 6: Statistics and SamplingDistributions
Week 4 · · · · · ·• Chapter 7: Point Estimation
Week 7 · · · · · ·• Chapter 8: Confidence Intervals
Week 10 · · · · · ·• Chapter 9: Test of Hypothesis
· · · · · ·• Chapter 10: Two-sample inference
Week 14 · · · · · ·• Regression
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Mathematical statistics
Statistics is a branch of mathematics that deals with thecollection, organization, analysis, interpretation andpresentation of data
“...analysis, interpretation and presentation of data”→ mathematical statistics
descriptive statistics: the part of statistics that describes datainferential statistics: the part of statistics that drawsconclusions from data
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Modelling uncertainties
— Modern statistics is about making prediction in the presence ofuncertainties
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
— It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Inferential statistics
population: a well-defined collection of objects of interest
when desired information is available for all objects in thepopulation, we have what is called a census→ very expensive
a sample, a subset of the population, is selected
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Random sample
Definition
The random variables X1,X2, ...,Xn are said to form a (simple)random sample of size n if
1 the Xi ’s are independent random variables
2 every Xi has the same probability distribution
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Overview
Axioms of probability
Conditional probability and independence
Random variables
Special distributions
Bivariate and multivariate distributions
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Most important parts
Expectation and variance of random variables (discrete andcontinuous)
Computations with normal distributions
Bivariate and multivariate distributions
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Random variables
random variables are used to model uncertainties
Notations:
random variables are denoted by uppercase letters (e.g., X );the calculated/observed values of the random variables aredenoted by lowercase letters (e.g., x)
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Random variable
Definition
Let S be the sample space of an experiment. A real-valuedfunction X : S → R is called a random variable of the experiment.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Discrete random variable
Definition
A random variables X is discrete if the set of all possible values ofX
is finite
is countably infinite
Note: A set A is countably infinite if its elements can be put inone-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers, i.e, wecan index the element of A as a sequence
A = {x1, x2, . . . , xn, . . .}
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Discrete random variable
A random variable X is described by its probability mass function
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Represent the probability mass function
As a table
As a function:
p(x) =
{12
(23
)xif x = 1, 2, 3, . . . ,
0 elsewhere
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Expectation
The expected value of a random variable X is also called the mean,or the mathematical expectation, or simply the expectation ofX. It is also occasionally denoted by E [X ], E (X ), EX , µX , or µ.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Exercise
Problem
A random variable X has the following pmf table
X 0 1 2
probability 0.25 0.5 0.25
What is the expected value of X?
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Exercise
Problem
A random variable X has the following pmf table
X 0 1 2
probability 0.25 0.5 0.25
What is E [X 2 − X ]?
Compute Var [X ]
Var [X ] = E [(X − E [X ])2] = E [X 2]− (E [X ])2
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Continuous random variable
Definition
Let X be a random variable. Suppose that there exists anonnegative real-valued function f : R→ [0,∞) such that for anysubset of real numbers A, we have
P(X ∈ A) =
∫Af (x)dx
Then X is called absolutely continuous or, for simplicity,continuous. The function f is called the probability densityfunction, or simply the density function of X.
Whenever we say that X is continuous, we mean that it isabsolutely continuous and hence satisfies the equation above.
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
Properties
Let X be a continuous r.v. with density function f , then∫∞−∞ f (x) dx = 1
For any fixed constant a, b,
P(a ≤ X ≤ b) =
∫ b
af (x) dx
P(X = a) = 0
P(a < X < b) = P(a ≤ X < b) = P(a < X ≤ b) = P(a ≤ X ≤ b)
Vu Dinh MATH 450: Mathematical statistics
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