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MTH 145: Statistics

Course documents

Calendar

Week 9   

  • Mon Write your own problems on confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
  • Tue Write your own problems on confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
  • Wed Chapter 11
  • Thu 

Week 8  

  • Mon-Wed Hypothesis test for mean and proportion
  • Thu  Quiz 2

Week 7   

  • Mon Confidence intervals
    HW page 379: 11-27(odd)
  • Tue Confidence intervals
    HW page 392: 35, 45; page 402: 49-60, 62, 63
  • Wed Review day
  • Thu  Exam 2

Week 6   

  • Mon Sampling distributions
    Page 339: 1-4, 9; (sampling distributions)
    Page 350: 14-17, 19, 23-25; (sample distribution for the sample mean)
    Page 356: 27-29, 31, 33, 35; (sample distribution for the sample proportion)
  • Tue Distribution of sample mean
  • Wed Distribution of sample proportion
  • Thu Confidence intervals

Week 5 

  • Mon Binomial
  • Tue Continuous distributions
    HW: page 298: 11-15.
  • Wed Normal distribution
    HW: page 315: 17-31 odd.
  • Thu Approximation of binomial
    practice problems

Week 4   

  • Mon 2/16 Exam 1
  • Tue 2/17   Probability145/Probability.pdf
  • Wed 2/18  Probability 
    Read chapter 6; page 258: 1, 3, 11; page 263: 15, 17; page 273: 19, 21; page 277: 28
  • Thu 2/19  Binomial145/BinomialDistribution.pdf
    HW page 726: 1, 2, 5, 8, 12.

Week 3   

  • Mon 2/9 LinearRegression.pdf, chapter 5 worksheet.
  • Tue 2/10    Linear Regression Page 194: 1, 3,11,14, 16; Page 205 18, 22, 26; Page 219: 33.
  • Wed 2/11  Linear Regression
  • Thu 2/12  Review for exam 1

Week 2   

  • Mon 2/2 Variance and standard deviation
  • Tue 2/3  BoxPlots   
  • Wed 2/4 Empirical rule
  • Thu 2/5  z-scores, percentiles

Week 1   

  • Mon 1/26 Introduction to statistics
    1. Chapter 1: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
    2. Write down five more questions you could investigate with the combined data on:  gender, home, goal, sibs, weight, height
    3. Read chapter 1, sections 3.1-3.3
    4. Bar charts, pie charts, comparative bar charts
  • Tue 1/27
    1. Stem and Leaf: Page 90: 17, 21, 22
    2. Histograms: Page 110: 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 36, 39
  • Wed 1/28
    1. Scatterplots: Page 123: 41, 43, 45, 49, 51
    2. Measures of center: Page 148: 1, 5, 11, 13
  • Thu 1/29
    1. Measures of spread:  Page 158: 17, 19, 21, 23, 27
    2. Quiz

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