MATH 116-01 Elementary Statistics

Spring 2010

 

The calendar presented below is a tentative schedule for the course. This calendar may change from time to time, so return to it regularly throughout the semester for updates on schedules and deadlines. Make a note of all test dates.

Homework assignments are collected at the end of the week and must be turned it by 4:00pm each Friday.

The links labeled pdf are to lecture notes for the material of that chapter from the textbook. Numbers in brackets [ ] in the calendar refer to page numbers in Intro Stats.

January 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Chapter 2 [pdf]: Data

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14

Chapters 3-4 [pdf, pdf]: Organizing and displaying data

15

HW due:
Ch 2 [16-18]: #8, 10, 13, 16, 20, 24;
Ch 3 [40-47]: #13, 20, 29, 30, 34, 39

18

MLK HOLIDAY

19

Chapter 5 [pdf]: Summarizing data -- median, quartiles, boxplots

20

21

Summarizing data -- mean and standard deviation

22

HW due:
Ch 4 [78-87]: #6, 7, 10, 14, 35, 37, 53;
Ch 5 [109-120]: #6, 8, 11, 15, 17, 22, 34, 44

25

26

Chapter 6 [pdf]: The normal model

27
28

Chapter 7 [pdf]: Scatterplots, association, correlation

29

HW due:
Ch 6 [147-153]: #6, 17, 25, 28, 34, 38, 44, 48, 54;
Ch 7 [186-193]: #2, 10, 13, 24, 26, 34, 37
February 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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2

Chapter 8 [pdf]: Linear regression

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11

Ch 9 [pdf]: Regression and prediction

12

HW due:
Ch 8 [216-226]: #2, 8, 10, 13, 28, 30, 47, 54, 55;
Ch 9 [244-251]: #3, 9, 12, 16, 17, 22, 24, 30, 33

15

16

Review

17

18

Test #1
(Chs. 2-9)

19

22
23

Chapter 11 [pdf]: Randomness and simulations

24

25

Chapter 12 [pdf]: Parameters, statistics, and bias

26

HW due:
Ch 11 [299-302]: #3, 14, 16, 25, 26, 29, 34, 36, 41;
Ch 12 [324-328]: #4, 8, 14, 21, 25, 31, 35, 36, 37
March 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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SPRING

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BREAK

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WEEK

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9

Chapter 13 [pdf]: Experiments and
observational studies

10

11

Chapter 14 [pdf]: Probability

12

HW due:
Ch 13 [350-355]: #10, 12, 22, 24, 36, 42, 44, 52, 55;
Ch 14 [379-383]: #8, 12, 26, 28, 34, 36, 43

15
16

Chapter 15 [pdf]: Conditional probability

17

18

Chapter 16 [pdf]: Random variables

19

HW due:
Ch 15 [404-408]: #2, 10, 19, 22, 23, 28, 38;
Ch 16 [427-431]: #7, 15, 20, 26, 28, 32, 40, 45

22
23

Review

24

25

Test #2
(Ch. 11-16)

26

29

30

Chapter 18 [pdf]: Sampling
distributions

31

HW due:
Ch 18 [479-485]: #2, 4, 5, 11, 18, 20, 24, 30, 40, 47
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April 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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EASTER

2

BREAK

5

 6

Chapter 19 [pdf]: Confidence intervals

7

8

Chapter 20 [pdf]: Hypothesis testing

9

HW due:
Ch 19 [503-507]: #3, 7, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32, 35, 37;
Ch 20 [527-530]: #2, 8, 14, 16, 26, 29, 32

12

13

Chapter 21 [pdf]: Types of error in hypothesis tests

14
15

Chapter 22 [pdf]: Comparing two proportions

16

HW due:
Ch 21 [552-556]: #7, 12, 18, 24, 32, 34;
Ch 22 [574-578]: #5, 10, 14, 25, 29, 31, 37

19
20

Review

21
22

Test #3
(Chs. 18-21)

23

26

27

Chapter 23 [pdf]: the t-distribution

28

29

Chapter 24 [pdf]: Comparing two means;
Chapter 25 [pdf]: Matched pairs comparisons

30

HW due:
Ch 23 [609-615]: #1, 8, 14, 22, 26, 28, 42;
Ch 24 [640-649]: #4, 7, 12, 16, 24, 34, 44;
Ch 25 [666-674]: #4, 15, 19, 26, 36

May 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
3

STUDY DAY

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Final Exam
4:00 - 5:50

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