Statistics 100A - Introduction to Probability TheorySummer 2008Section 2AYour TA: Ryan RosarioEmail: [email protected]: MS 8105HMy Website: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/∼rosarioOffice Hours: Tuesday, 1:30-3:30pm; Wednesday, 10:30-11:30, or by appointment*.My BackgroundPursuing Ph.D., Statistics.Pursuing M.S., Computer Science.M.S. Statistics. University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.B.S. Mathematics of Computation, Statistics. University of California, Los Angeles, June 2006.Born and raised in Southern California. Originally from Thousand Oaks, CA.Section 2A Meeting TimesDay Time Location PurposeWednesday 9:00 - 10:20 MS 5147 Concept questions, material review, HW questions.Format of SectionsOn Wednesday we will spend most of the time going over the related material from lecture as well as questionsabout the homework. It is to your benefit to have at least looked at the problems by time we discuss thechapter.To help our homework grader, please include your name, UID # and section (or TA name) on allof your written work. Please staple your work and write neatly. If you make an error, please erase it cleanly,neatly cross out the error, or use white-out. For more severe errors, just start on a new sheet of paper. Weencourage you to work together, but under no circumstances should your work appear to becopied.If you enjoy the material covered in this class, you may want to consider a major or mi-nor in Statistics. For more information, visit Glenda Jones in Math Sciences 8117 or visithttp://student-services.stat.ucla.edu.Also, if you want to talk about the major or graduate school in Statistics, stop by office hours!1More Practice ProblemsIf you want more practice, you can try non-assigned problems in the textbook with available solutions in theback. I also recommend these books that I used when I took this course:Probability Problem Solvers, Research & Education Association, 1978.A giant book of just practice problems with complete solutions. It is dated, but still relevant to today’scurriculum. There are others in this series that cover most topics in mathematics and science includingcalculus, advanced and vector calculus, physics, chemistry, differential equations, linear algebra and variousengineering courses.Schaum’s Outline of Probability, M. R. Spiegel, et. al., 2000.This book is probably more useful for the inferential statistics part of this course. This is also a very largeseries covering lower-division mathematics and science, as well as some upper-division courses.If you are a Statistics major or are interested in probability or actuarial science, you may wantto look at these books as reference for this course, or in the future:Probability and Statistics, M.H. DeGroot, M. J. Schervish, 2001.Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, R. V. Hogg, A. Craig, 2004.Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications, R. J. Larsen, M. L. Marx,