MATH 170S

This is the webpage for Swee Hong Chan's section of MATH 170S (Lec 2), Introduction to Statistics, in Spring 2021.

The class will be conducted remotely via Zoom. The zoom addresses and the lecture recordings can be accessed through CCLE (enrolled students only).

Some official links for the course:

CCLE »

General Course Outline »

My office hours are Thursday 8-10pm Pacific time.

Our textbook is Probability and Statistical Inference, 10th edition, by Hogg, Tanis, and Zimmerman.

The lecture notes are made available here, by popular demand.

Please include an acknowledgement if you intend to use these lectures notes for your course.

The materials in this webpage are updated once per quarter (at most). For registered students, please use CCLE for the most up-to-date materials.

Section 6: Point Estimation


Section 7: Interval Estimation


Section 8: Statistical Hypotheses


Section 9: More Tests