18.05 Introduction to Probability and Statistics Spring 2012
Drs. Jeremy Orloff and Jonathan Bloom


Lectures: Jeremy Orloff    TR 1-2:30, room 4-370.
Recitations: Jonathan Bloom    F 12-1 or F 2-3, room 2-139.
Office hours: Jerry: TR 2:30-3:30, room 2-363a,   M 1-2, room 24-606;    Jon: F 1-2, room 2-230;   M 4:30-5:30, room 2-230.

Announcements
• Posted some problems for exam review.
  -This is incomplete. We'll add some more problems soon.
  -Many of the problems are from the book and have solutions. Other solutions will be posted soon.
  The practice is much longer than the actual exam. We've made it somewhat complete, but you need to look at your notes and the book to make sure you've studied everything.

XKCD Probability and Statistics Gallery

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XKCD Jelly Beans

Muddy Cards
Use this form to ask about anything that is unclear or to make comments on the class.
Muddy Questions:    Answers

Probability and Statistics in the News and Elsewhere
World Happiness Report (contains lots of interesting statistics.)
Can you beat the lottery odds?
Jeremy Lin: Is he for real?   Abstruse Goose comic commentary
Bias in Coin Tossing

Information
Syllabus and class information
Calendar
We will use Matlab. You can use it on Athena or download it from student matlab.
Brief matlab instructions.

Links
Lecture notes
Stellar page (This is just for grades. We will open it after the first pset.)
Textbook data sets
OCW 18.05 spring 2005
Berkeley Stat Applets
Scientific American: Raising Smart Kids: Summary: it's all in how hard you work.

Extras
Benford's law, Pareto distributions and accounting fraud

Problem sets
*Answers to emailed questions about the psets*
  Problem set 1solutions
  Problem set 2extra creditsolutions
  Problem set 3solutions
  Problem set 4solutions
  Problem set 5Matlab 5: histogramssolutions
  Problem set 6solutions
  Problem set 7Matlab help for pset 7solutionsps7.m
  Problem set 8ps8-p3-data.txtMatlab help for pset 8solutionsps8_p3.mps8_p6.m
  Problem set 9Matlab help for pset 9solutionsps9_p4.mps9_p7.m

Practice exams
  Practice questions exam 1Exam 1 info sheetsolutions
  Practice questions exam 2Exam 2 info sheetsolutions
  Practice questions for final examFinal exam info sheet • Solutions and more problems will be posted soon.

Exams
  Exam 1Exam 1 info sheetsolutions
  Exam 2Exam 2 info sheetsolutions

Recitation Materials
Recitation 1 questions and answers
Recitation 2 questions and answers
Recitation 3 questions and answers
Recitation 4 questions and answers
Recitation 5 questions and answers
Recitation 6 questions and answers
Recitation 7 questions and answers
Recitation 8 questions and answers
Recitation 9 questions and answers
Recitation 10 questions and answers
Recitation 11 questions and answers