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MTH 145: Statistics


Course documents


Week 13

Monday: AppleFinish.pdf, a 20 point take-home portion of exam 3 due at start of class.

Randomized Block Design

Tuesday:  Rank Sum Test

Wednesday:  Review

Thursday: EXAM IV


Week 12

Monday: ANOVA

Tuesday:  ANOVA

Wednesday: Lab

Thursday: Tukey-Kramer, Quiz 9


Week 11

Monday: Section 12.1 Goodness of Fit Tests

Tuesday:  Section 12.2

Wednesday: Quiz?

Thursday: Project day/jury duty


Week 10

Monday: Comparison of population means

Tuesday: Comparison of population proportions

Wednesday: Review

Thursday: Exam 3


Week 9

Monday: Hypothesis testing 145/hypothesisTesting.pdf

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Observational v. Experimental

Thursday:


Week 8

Monday: Confidence Intervals

145/ci.pdf

Tuesday: CI for mean

Wednesday: Hypothesis testing

Thursday:


Week 7

Monday: Sampling distribution of sample proportion

145/sampleProportion_SRS.pdf

Tuesday: Simple random samples

Wednesday: Review day

Thursday:

145/exam2solns.pdf


Week 6

Monday: Sampling distribution

145/sampling_practice.pdf

Tuesday: Practice problems

Wednesday: Jury Duty

Thursday: Practice problems, quiz.


Week 5

Monday: Binomial Distribution

Tuesday: Quiz, Continuous distributions

145/Continuous_Normal_BinomApprox.pdf

Wednesday: Normal Distributions

Thursday: Normal approximation of a binomial distribution


Week 4

Monday 2/18: Exam 1

Tuesday 2/19: Probability

145/Probability_Binomial.pdf

Wednesday 2/20: Meet in Wing 17

Thursday 2/21: Binomial distribution.


Week 3

Thursday 2/14:  Review day for Monday's Exam.

Wednesday 2/13: Applied Linear Regression, Descriptive stats and charts in Excel

145/RegressionAndExcel.pdf

Page 194: 1, 2, 3,11,12(Use Excel),14, 16;

Page 205: 18, 22, 26;

Page 219: 33.

Tuesday 2/12: Linear Regression on Excel

145/Regression2.pdf

Monday 2/11: Linear Regression: hand computation

145/RegressionNotes.pdf

145/regressionHW.pdf


Week 2

Monday 2/4:  145/boxplots.pdf, 145/PracticeProblems.pdf

Tuesday 2/5:  145/empiricalRule.pdf

Wednesday 2/6:  Meet in Wing 17: 145/StatPlotExamples.nb, 145/LeastSquaresExample.nb

Thursday 2/7 Percentiles, Apple project: Letter.pdf, Apple Data: Apple.pdf(pdf), or Apple.xls (Excel)

HW: 1. Form project groups, discuss what types of numerical and graphical summaries to provide for the data. I strongly suggest that you prepare crude hand drawings of the graphics you want before using Mathematica or other computer software to produce the graphics.

2. Suppose an exam has a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

a. What percentile is a score of 2?

b. What percentile is a score of 2.5?

c. What score is at the 50th percentile?

d. What score is at the 80th percentile?


Week 1

Monday 1/28:  Introduction, Stem and Leaf diagrams:  145/Introduction.pdf

Tuesday 1/29:  Density Histograms and Scatter Plots

145/densityPlots.pdf

Wednesday 1/30:  Mean and Median: 145/center.pdf

145/spread.pdf

Thursday 1/31: Spread

 


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