During the first two weeks we will primarily use the custom course packet. Note that this packet is a reprint of Chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook Introductory Statistics, by Sheldon Ross. There is a copy of this book on reserve in the Mathematics Library. Otherwise, "chapter" refers to the corresponding chapters in The Basic Practice of Statistics, by David S. Moore.
Week 1: January 26, 28, 30
- introduction to statistics
- probability, mutually exclusive events (packet 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4)
- independence, discrete probability distributions (packet 4.5, 5.1, 5.2)
Week 2: February 2, 4, 6
- mean and variance of a sum of random variables (packet 5.3, 5.4)
- binomial distribution (packet 5.5; chapter 10 pages 249-261)
- normal distributions (chapter 3)
- normal approximation to binomial (chapter 12 pages 312-314)
Week 3: February 9, 11, 13
- sample proportion (chapter 18 pages 469-472)
- law of large numbers (chapter 10 pages 251-253)
- central limit theorem (chapter 10 pages 258-261)
Week 4: February 16, 18, 20
- picturing distributions with graphs (chapter 1)
- describing distributions with numbers (chapter 2)
- scatterplots (chapter 4 pages 79-87)
Week 5: February 23, 25, 26*, 27
- review for first prelim
- correlation (chapter 4 pages 88-94)
Week 6: March 1, 3, 5
Week 7: March 8, 10, 12
- producing data: sampling (chapter 7)
- producing data: experiments (chapter 8)
Week 8: March 15, 17, 19
- sampling distributions (chapter 10)
- confidence intervals (chapter 13)
- tests of significance (chapter 14 pages 340-344)
Week 9: March 22, 24, 26
Week 10: March 29, 31, April 2
- tests of significance (chapter 14 pages 345-359)
- inference in practice (chapter 15)
Week 11: April 5, 7, 9
- inference about a population mean (chapter 16)
- two sample problems (chapter 17)
Week 12: April 12, 13*, 14, 16
- review for second prelim
- inference about a population proportion (chapter 18)
- comparing two proportions (chapter 19)
Week 13: April 19, 21, 23
- two categorical variables: the Chi-square test (chapter 20 pages 529-546)
Week 14: April 26, 28, 30
- inference for regression (chapter 21 pages 562-567)
Week 15: May 3, 5, 7
- inference for regression (chapter 21 pages 568-583)
- review for final exam
Exam Schedule
- Prelim #1: Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Thurston Hall 203)
- Prelim #2: Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Malott Hall 251)
- Final Exam: Monday, May 17, 2004, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
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