STAT 2509 A - Summer 2025
Suggested Homework Problems
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For homework you are assigned some practice problems. The related exercises are not to be handed in and will not be graded. However, to succeed in the course it is absolutely essential that you solve them on a regular basis.
All problems are from the textbook "Introduction to Probability & Statistics", 4th Canadian ed. by William Mendenhall, Robert J.Beaver and Barbara Beaver.
Please, try as many of them as possible. Note, that they follow the order of the sections covered in the class.
Chapter 12: 12.1, 12.7 a)b)c), 12.11 d)e), 12.6, 12.9, 12.17, 12.18, 12.19, 12.39,
12.40, 12.47, 12.49, 12.50, 12.54, 12.55
Sections covered: 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.6, 12.7, 12.5 plus Lack-of-Fit (not in the textbook)
Chapter 13: 13.1, 13.3 a), 13.4 b), 13.5, 13.9, 13.28, 13.31, 13.17, 13.20
Sections covered: 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.6, Inferences about a single parameter (not in the
textbook), 13.5, 13.9 (Multicollinearity), 13.4, 13.8 + Model Selection
Procedures (not in the textbook), 13.10 (read only).
Chapters 11 & 15 : 11.1, 11.2 a)b)c)d), 11.7 a)b)c)d)e), 11.10 + Hartley's test,
11.15 + Hartley's test, 15.32, 15.34 a), 11.28, 11.29, 11.30, 11.34,
11.38, 11.40, 15.38 a)c), 15.41 a)
Sections covered: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, Hartley's test for equality of variance (not in the
textbook), Multiple comparisons, 15.6 + Dunn's Procedure (not in
the textbook), 11.5, 11.6, 15.7 + Nemenyi's Procedure (not in the
textbook), 11.7, 11.8.
Chapter 14: 14.2, 14.6, 14.7, 14.16, 14.18, 14.27, 14.30
Sections covered: 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5