MCS 341 Extra Credit
See also the chapter assignments for information on extra credit problems.
Do extra credit problems entirely on your own.
Turn them in separately from regular homework.
- Chapter 1: What is statistics?
A problem on means
(ps)
(pdf)
- Chapter 2: Probability
The sixteenfold way: handout
- Chapter 3: Discrete random variables
- Let Y have a binomial distribution with parameters p and n.
Derive a simple formula for the "rth factorial moment"
of Y, E(Yr).