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Week &
Date of Class |
Assignment(s) Due/Quiz or Test
Scheduled |
Material Covered
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Homework Assignments |
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Week 15
F 5/6 |
Final Exam |
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Week 14
R 4/28 |
Homework 5
Due |
- Review for Final Exam |
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Week 14
T 4/26 |
Bring a laptop to class (or share one with your partners) |
- In-class Lab Day - Work on Homework 5 |
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Week 13
R 4/21 |
Bring a laptop to class (or share one with your partners) |
- In-class Lab Day - More on Random Number
Generation - Using the Monte Carlo Method (Section 14-5) |
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Week 13
T 4/19 |
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- Errors in Hypothesis Testing and the Power of a
Statistical Test (Section 8-1 and 8-2)
- Random
Number Generation - Introduction to the Monte Carlo Method (Section 14-5) |
- Problems
from Section 8-2: 1 - 11, 13. On problem 13, also identify what
constitutes a type I and type II error in the context of each scenario.
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Hand-In Homework 5 (Due
4/28) |
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Week 12
R 4/14 |
Test 2
Test 2
Study Guide |
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Week 12
T 4/12 |
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- Review for
Test 2
- Two-Way
Analysis of Variance (Section 12-4) |
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Week 11
R 4/7 |
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- One-Way Analysis of Variance (Section 12-2 with 12-3) |
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Week 11
T 4/5 |
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- Review of Quiz 6 (Regression and Chi-Square Goodness of
Fit Tests) |
- Rework
problems from the Regression and Chi-Square Chapters if you are still having
problems with these concepts
- Read 12-1
and 12-2. |
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Week 10
R 3/31 |
In-Class Quiz 6
Covers
Regression (Testing the Correlation Coefficient (or Slope of Regression
Line), Reading Excel Output, Visually Representing Types of Error (see page
525), etc.) and Section 11-2 (Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Tests) |
- Finish Tests Using Contingency Tables (Section
11-3) |
- Finish all
problems in Section 11-3.
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Week 10
T 3/29 |
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- Start Tests Using Contingency Tables (Section 11-3) |
- Section 11-3: 1 - 21 odd (Independence Tests), 23
- 31 (Homogeneity Tests) |
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Week 9
R 3/24 |
Hand-In Homework 4 Due |
- The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test (Section 11-2) |
- Finish all
of the Review Exercises and Chapter Quiz Exercises assigned below.
- Section
11-2: 1 - 15 odd (use the p-value method for all hypotheses tests). |
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Week 9
T 3/22 |
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- Review of Regression Fundamentals & Using Excel for
Regression Analysis |
- Finish all problems from Section 10-5
- You should
also start working the following review and chapter quiz problems from
Chapter 10:
Review
Exercises (p.542): 1-13 odd
Chapter Quiz
(p.543): 1-8, 11-26 |
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3/14 - 3/19 |
Spring Break! |
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Week 8
R 3/10 |
In-Class Quiz 5
Covers
Sections 7-4 and Regression Basics (includes Scatterplots, Centroids,
Correlation Coef., Regression Line, and Using the Regression Line to Infer.
Does not include testing the corr. coef. for significance.) |
- Coefficient of Determination, Formulas and
Relationships in Linear Regression (please download the formula sheet on the
main page for this class) - (Section 10-5) |
- Hand-In
Homework 4: Due 3/24/05
- Start
problems in Section 10-5: 1 - 21 odd |
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Week 8
T 3/8 |
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- Significance of Correlation, Finding, Plotting, and
Interpreting the Regression Line (10-3, 10-4) |
- Section 10-4: 1 - 35 odd (Be sure to generate a
scatterplot, plot the centroid, and plot the regression line for these
problems). |
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Week 7
R 3/3 |
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- Scatter Plots, Covariance, and Correlation (Sections
10-2 and 10-3) |
- Read pages
494 - 506
- Work the
following problems:
Section 10-3
Problems: 1, 3, 5, 11, 13 - 27 odd with these new directions:
Draw Scatterplot with Centroid, find the sample covariance (sXY), and the
sample correlation coefficient, r (find both ways (using sXY and the sample
standard deviations and directly via software) as discussed in class).
When you find r via your calculator, also record the values of the
coefficients for the regression line. Try playing the
"Correlation Guessing Game" |
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Week 7
T 3/1 |
Hand-In Homework 3
Due Beginning
of Class |
- Confidence
Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Proportions (Sections 7-4 and 8-5) |
- Work the
following problems:
Section 7-4:
1 - 19 odd
Section 8-5:
1 - 19 odd |
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Week 6
R 2/24 |
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- Hypothesis
Tests for the Difference Between Two Means (Sections 9-2 and 9-4) |
- Work the
following problems:
Section 9-2:
1 - 19 odd
Section 9-4:
1 - 13 odd |
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Week 6
T 2/22 |
Test 1
Test 1
Study Guide |
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Week 5
R 2/17 |
In-Class Quiz 4 - Covers Confidence Intervals for Means
(Sections 7.2 and 7.3) |
- Review for
Test 1
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Week 5
T 2/15 |
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- Hypothesis Tests for Means (Sections 8-2 and 8-3) |
- Work the
following problems:
Section 8-2:
1 - 13 odd
Section 8-3:
1 - 25 odd
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Hand In Homework 3:
Due 2/24 |
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Week 4
R 2/10 |
Hand-In
Homework 2 Due Beginning of Class |
- Finish
Confidence Intervals for Means (Section 7-3)
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- Work the following problems from Section 7-3: 1 -
19 odd |
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Week 4
T 2/8 |
In-Class
Quiz 3 - Covers the Normal Distribution and the CLT (Chapter 6) |
- More on Confidence Intervals for Means (Finish Section
7-2) |
- Work the following problems from Section 7-2: 1,
3, 5 - 7, 9 - 25 odd |
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Week 3
R 2/3 |
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- More on the
Central Limit Theorem
- Start
Confidence Intervals for Means (Chapter 7, Sections 7-2 and 7-3) |
- Make sure
you can work the problems assigned from Chapter 6 for your quiz on Tuesday
(note that I have updated the problem list since class on 2/3).
- Look at the
problems from Section 7.2 |
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Week 3
T 2/1 |
Hand-In Homework 1 Due Beginning of Class |
- The Central Limit Theorem (Chapter 6, Section 6.5 of
text) |
- Finish all
practice problems assigned below from Chapter 6.
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Hand In
Homework 2: Due Thursday 2/10 |
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Week 2
R 1/27 |
In-Class Quiz
2
Covers Basic
Descriptive Stats (essentially Chapters 2 and 3 of your book) |
- Continue Review of the Normal Distribution -
Computations and "Checking for Normality" (Chapter 6, Sections 6.3, 6.4 of text) |
- Continue working the problems assigned below from
Chapter 6 |
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Week 2
T 1/25 |
Easy Quiz
1 Due Beginning of Class |
- More on Measures of Center and Spread for Sample Data
(more on Standard Deviation, z-scores, percentiles, the empirical rule for
"bell shaped" data) - Chapter 3 of text.
- Start review
of the Normal Distribution (Chapter 6) |
- Finish the practice problems assigned in Week 1 below.
- Practice:
Read Sections 6.1-6.3. Start working these problems from Chapter 6:
Chapter Review exercise pages 318-319: 1 - 11 odd; Chapter Quiz
pages 320-321: 1 - 15, 18 - 28 |
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Week 1
R 1/20 |
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- Review of Measures of Center and Spread for Sample Data
(Mean, Median, Quartiles, Standard Deviation, Box Plots, Basic Data Shapes (skewness))
- Chapter 3 of text. |
- Practice:
Start working the following problems
Pages 159 -
161 Review Exercises: 1, 7, 9, 20, 21, 22
Pages 161 -
163 Chapter Quiz: 3 - 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36
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Hand In
Homework 1: Due 2/1 |
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Week 1
T 1/18 |
Easy Quiz
1 (Due 1/25) |
- Review of
Syllabus/Website/Technology Requirements
- Review of
Visual Representations of Data (Histograms, etc.) - Chapter 2 of text. |
- Get Your Computer Configured!:
Make sure your laptop is configured with the required software (see the
Syllabus and pages 23-24 of your
textbook, and click here for
problems/solutions when installing Megastat). If you need
practice with Excell, work through the
Excel tutorials on my NSF Project Website. Make sure you can enter
a list into your TI-83 calculator.
- Practice: page 90 problems 20-23, 25, 26 (also construct a
histogram for problem 26). You should be able to do these by hand and
also by using your computer software. |