|
Week &
Date of Class |
Assignment(s) Due/Quiz or Test
Scheduled |
Material Covered
|
Homework (Practice and Hand-In) |
|
Week 15
M 5/2 |
Final Exam
Final Exam Topics
3:00-5:30 p.m. |
|
|
|
Week 14
F 4/29 |
Please see the
Student Presentations Page for Abstracts,
etc. Also see the
Project Evaluation Form I
will be using. |
Presentation 5: John Burton
Presentation 6: John Larson & Brice O'Hara |
|
|
Week 14
W 4/27 |
Presentation 3: Jen Eckrote & Thomas Fields
Presentation 4: Megan Aldrich & Tiffany Timm |
|
|
Week 14
M 4/25 |
Presentation 1: Kevin Strosnider & Kris Tuck
Presentation 2: Lindsay Robson & Demetria Wilson |
|
|
Week 13
F 4/22 |
|
- More Analysis of Variance including
Comparing Analysis of Variance to Regression |
- Finish practice problems assigned below |
|
Week 13
W 4/20 |
|
- Start Analysis of Variance (8.6, 8.7) |
Practice: Section 8.6: 1 - 13 odd |
|
Week 13
M 4/18 |
|
- Finish Chi-Square Tests
|
- Finish Practice Problems Assigned below. |
|
Week 12
F 4/15 |
Presentation Abstract and Presenter Bios Due (in
electronic form to Dr. L.) |
- More with Chi-Square Tests |
Practice: Section 8.5: 1, 5 - 15 odd |
|
Week 12
W 4/13 |
|
- Start Chi-Square Tests: Sections 8.4 and 8.5 |
Practice: Section 8.4: 1 - 11 odd, 15 |
|
Week 12
M 4/11 |
Hand-In Homework 8 Due
NEW DUE
DATE! |
- Finish Regression Basics |
Practice: Section 7.9: 1, 3, 5, 7 |
|
Week 11
F 4/8 |
|
- More on Regression: Section 7.9 (or 8.8) |
Check out the
Formulas and Relationships handout for Simple and Multiple Regression |
|
Week 11
W 4/6 |
|
- More on Regression: Section 7.9 (or 8.8) |
|
|
Week 11
M 4/4 |
|
- More Regression: Section 7.8 |
Practice:
Section 5.2:
1, 5 (also prove the line goes through mu X and mu Y), 11
Section 7.8:
1 (a,b), 3 , 5, 11 (a,b, d), (Use Minitab, Excel, or your TI-83 for the
computational problems.)
Add to
Hand-In Homework 8: 5.2-5 (also show that the line you derive
passes through the point (mu X, mu Y) and that beta equals row times sigma Y
divided by sigma X) |
|
Week 10
F 4/1 |
|
- Start Regression: Section 5.2 |
|
|
Week 10
W 3/30 |
Impromptu Hand-In Homework Due |
- Finish Section 7.1 |
Finish
all practice problems from Section 7.1
Hand-In
Homework 8: Work problem 7.1-4 (For this problem show
that the max. likelihood estimator for lambda is (surprise!) the sample mean
and also draw a histogram of the data fitted with a Poisson curve with the
maximum likelihood estimator as the parameter). Due Friday, 4/8.
NOTE: I will very likely be adding another problem from the
Regression material to this assignment! |
|
Week 10
M 3/28 |
|
- Continue with Section 7.1 |
|
|
Week 9
F 3/25 |
Hand-In Homework 7 Due |
- Section 7.1 - Point Estimation - Maximum Likelihood
Estimators |
Practice: Section 7.1: 1, 3, 5 (a and
b only), 7 (for part (c) only compute the maximum likelihood estimate), 9 |
|
Week 9
W 3/23 |
|
- Section 8.1
- Hypothesis Tests for Proportions, Errors in Hypothesis Tests |
Practice: Section 8.1: 1 - 15 odd |
|
Week 9
M 3/21 |
|
- More on Hypothesis Testing fundamentals |
Make sure you have finished all practice problems
assigned from Sections 8.2 and 8.3 |
|
M 3/14 - F 3/18 |
Spring Break! |
|
|
|
Week 8
F 3/11 |
|
- Cover highlights from Section 8.3 |
Practice:
Section 8.3: 1 - 7 odd, 15, 17, 21
Hand-In
Homework 7: Work problems 8.2-6, 8.3-14. Clearly indicate
your null and alternative hypothesis, what test statistic you are using and
why, the p-value of the test, and you conclusion in the context of the
problem. Due Friday, March 25, 2005. |
|
Week 8
W 3/9 |
Take-Home Midterm Exam Due Beginning of Class |
- Start Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing, Section 8.2 |
Read
Section 8.1
Practice:
Section 8.2: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17 |
|
Week 8
M 3/7 |
Noon: deadline to withdraw with grade of "W" |
- More on Confidence Intervals for Proportions (Section
7.5)
- Sample Size (Section 7.6) |
Practice: Section 7.6: 1 - 17 odd |
|
Week 7
F 3/4 |
Take In-Class
Midterm Exam
Receive
Take-Home Midterm Exam |
- In-Class Midterm Exam covers the following sections: 3.3 - 3.5, 4.1 - 4.4, 6.1 - 6.4, 6.6 (t-distrib.),
7.2, 7.3
- Take-Home Exam may also include the
following sections (tentative list): 7.5, 7.6 |
|
|
Week 7
W 3/2 |
Hand-In
Homework 6 Due |
- Confidence Intervals for Proportions (Section 7.5)
|
Practice: Section 7.5: 1 - 11 odd |
|
Week 7
M 2/28 |
No Class - Snow Day |
|
|
|
Week 6
F 2/25 |
Abstract for Class Paper and Presentation Due |
- Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Means
(Section 7.3) |
|
|
Week 6
W 2/23 |
|
- Finish on Confidence Intervals for Means |
|
|
Week 6
M 2/21 |
Hand-In Homework 5 Due |
- More on Confidence Intervals for Means (with an Intro to the T
distribution (Sec. 6.6)) |
Finish the
practice problems assigned below.
Hand-In
Homework 6 |
|
Week 5
F 2/18 |
|
- Confidence Intervals for Means (Section 7.2) |
Practice:
Sections 7.2: 1 - 21 odd and
Section 6.6
#1, 2 |
|
Week 5
W 2/16 |
|
- The Central Limit Theorem (Section 6.4) |
Practice: Section 6.4: 1 - 9 odd |
|
Week 5
M 2/14 |
Hand-In Homework 4 Due |
- More on Random Functions Associated with Normal
Distributions (Section 6.3) |
Finish all
practice problems assigned below.
Hand-In HW5 |
|
Week 4
F 2/11 |
|
- More on Independent Random Variables: Random
Functions Associated with Normal Distributions (Sections 6.2 and 6.3) |
Practice: Section 6.3: 1 - 15 |
|
Week 4
W 2/9 |
|
- Review of Independent Random Variables and Sums of Independent
Random Variables (Sections 6.1 and 6.2) |
Practice:
Section 6.2: 1, 3 (on part (a) use Moment Generating Functions), 5, 7,
9, 11, 13
Add to
Hand-In HW4: Add problem 6.2 #8 to your hand-in assignment.
Work it two ways: using n independent Poisson r.v.s (this is how it is
stated in the text) and using n independent Chi-Square r.v.s. |
|
Week 4
M 2/7 |
|
- Review Hand-In Homework 3 |
- Look over Sections 6.1 and 6.2 of your text. |
|
Week 3
F 2/4 |
Hand-In Homework 3 Due |
- More on the Normal Distribution (Relationship with
Chi-Square, Normal q-q plots) |
Finish all
practice problems assigned from Section 4.4 below
Hand-In
HW4: Section 4.4 #12 (find the mean, standard deviation,
and graph a histogram and q-q plot of the data). Due Monday 2/14 |
|
Week 3
W 2/2 |
|
- Review of the Normal Distribution (Section 4.4) |
Practice: Section 4.4: (Make sure you
can use your calculator to work these problems): 1 - 9 odd, 17, 21.
Use Minitab or some other software package to work these problems: 13,
15, 19 (b,c) |
|
Week 3
M 1/31 |
|
- The Chi-Square Distribution (Section 4.3) |
Finish Problems Assigned below from Section 4.3 |
|
Week 2
F 1/28 |
Hand-In Homework 2 Due |
- The Gamma Family of Distributions: Exponential,
Gamma, Chi Square (Sections 4.2, 4.3) |
Practice:
Section 4.3: 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15,
Hand-In HW3:
Section 4.3: 3, 4, 13 Due Friday, 2/4/05 |
|
Week 2
W 1/26 |
|
- The
Exponential and Gamma Distributions (Sections 4.2, 4.3) |
Practice:
Section 4.2: 6 - 11, 13, 15, 19
|
|
Week 2
M 1/24 |
|
- Finish the Poisson Distribution, Review Properties of
Continuous Distributions (Sections 4.1, 4.2). |
Finish the Practice problems assigned below from Section
3.5, including those that require the use of Minitab. |
|
Week 1
F 1/21 |
Easy Homework 1 Due |
- The Poisson
Distribution (Section 3.5) |
Practice:
Start these problems Section 3.5: 1 - 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 - 17 odd. On
the simple computational problems, use the VLPS to get a quick graph of the
Poisson distribution! We will discuss how to use Minitab to work the
data intensive problems (11 on).
Hand-In HW
2: Section 3.5 #9 (calculate both the exact and approximate
values of these probabilities - clearly indicate the distributions
and parameters of all random variables you use), and #12 (you will definitely
want to use a software package for this problem!). Due 1/28 |
|
Week 1
W 1/19 |
|
- Continue
Review of Bernoulli Trials (Sections 3.3, 3.4)
|
Practice:
Use the Virtual Labs to work the following problems in
Chapter 11
(Bernoulli Trials):
Section 1
(Introduction): 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Section 2
(The Binomial Distribution): 4, 5, 28, 30 a-d, 31, 37, 38, 39
Section 3
(The Geometic Distribution): 4, 5, 14, 15
Here is a
Link to a Page with Answers (scroll down the page) |
|
Week 1
M 1/17 |
Easy Homework
1 (Due 1/21) |
- Review of
Syllabus (Technology Issues)
- Start Review
of Bernoulli Trials and Resulting Distributions (Binomial, Geometric,
Negative Binomial) |
Practice: Make sure your laptop is
configured with the required software (see the
Syllabus). Work through the
Minitab and Excel tutorials on my NSF Project Website. Also see
the excellent Minitab instructions by
Dr. Hans Engler of Georgetown. |