Instructor: Hiro Kasahara
Office: Iona Building 213
Phone: 604-822-4814
Email: hkasahar@mail.ubc.ca
Office Hours: Monday 10:30-11:30 or by appointment
Time and Location: Tuesday and Thursday 14:00-15:30, Iona 301
Teaching Assistant: Neil Lloyd <neil.lloyd@alumni.ubc.ca>
Lab Sessions: Tues/Wed/Thurs 17:00-18:00, Iona 301 (Lecture) and BIE Computer Lab (Computer)
Textbooks: Newbold, Carloson, and Thorne Statistics for Business and Economics, 8th edition (required, older editions are also fine.)
Reference: Hogg, Tanis, and Zimmerman Probability and Statistical Inference (not required)
Midterm Exam: 14:00-15:30 on Tuesday, October 18
Past Final Exams:
- 2013 without answer
- 2014 without answer
- 2015 without answer
- 2013 with answer
- 2014 with answer
- 2015 with answer
Past Midterm Exams:
Midterm
Syllabus:
Class Notes:
- Notes on Examples (Introduction)
- Notes on Summation Operator (Chapters 2 and 4)
- Notes on Mathematical Expectation, Variance, and Covariance (Chapter 4)
- Notes on Bernoulli and Binomial Distribution (Chapter 4)
- Notes on Uniform Distribution and Normal Distribution (Chapter 5)
- Notes on Sample Mean, Sample Proportion, and Central Limit Theorem (Chapter 6)
- Notes on Point Estimation (Chapter 7)
- Notes on Two Population Proportions (Introduction, Chapters 8 and 10)
- Notes on Power of Test (Chapter 9)
Slides:
- Introduction with Examples
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4
- Lecture 5
- Lecture 6
- Lecture 7
- Lecture 8
- Lecture 9
- Lecture 10
- Lecture 11
Assignments:
Stata:
- Lab schedule for B101, B125, and B126
- Stata Data set at Stata Press
- Stata Tutorials online at Princeton
- Purchasing Stata at special GradPlan pricing