Course Schedule - Course begins January 12 and ends May 5
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PROCTORED Final exam to be scheduled April 30 – May 5, 2015
Getting Started
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 12 – January 17
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Complete the steps outlined in the Welcome Letter sent to you
by Student Services with other course introductory materials to
acquaint yourself with the course environment
Read the Announcement (Resources tab) and the Welcome
Message (Lessons tab)
Proctor form needs to be submitted by January 19. These
assignments are assigned simply to get these things done now
instead of waiting until end of semester.
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Lesson 1: An overview of Statistics, gathering data and graphical methods,
introduction to Minitab
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 12 – January 21
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Read online notes, chapters 1, 2, 3.1 and 3.3 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 1 - Homework (due January 21)
Lesson 2: Summarizing data: measures of central tendency and measures of
variability, box plot
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 21 – January 28
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Read online notes, chapters 3.4 - 3.6 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 2 - Homework (due January 28)
Lesson 3: Probabilities, conditional probability and independence, types of
variables and probability distributions
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 28 – February 4
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Read online notes, chapters 4.1-4.4, 4.6 and 4.7 in the
textbook
Work on Lesson 3 - Homework (due February 4)
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Lesson 4: Binomial distribution and normal distribution
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 4– February 11
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Read online notes, chapters 4.8 - 4.10 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 4 - Homework (due February 11)
Lesson 5: Sampling distribution and central limit theorem
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 11 – February 18
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Read online notes, chapters 4.10 - 4.12 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 5 - Homework (due February 18)
Lesson 6: Introduction to inferences, confidence interval for population
proportion, margin of error and sample size computation
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 18 – March 4 NOTE this spans TWO weeks BUT includes
Exam one!!!
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Read online notes, chapters 5.1, 10.1 and 10.2 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 6 - Homework (due March 4)
EXAM ONE
Time frame:
February 25 – March 1
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At home test Available February 25 and is due March 1
Content: (Lesson 1 – Lesson 5)
Down loaded from the Exam folder, you should submit the
completed test within 3 hours.
Lesson 7: Confidence interval for population mean when population standard
deviation is unknown, t-distribution, choosing the sample size for estimating the
population mean
Time frame:
Assignments:
March 4 – March 11
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Read online notes, chapters 5.7, 5.2 and 5.3 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 7 - Homework (due March 11)
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Lesson 8: Hypothesis testing, type I and type II error, statistical test for
population proportion, p-value approach to hypothesis testing
Time frame:
March 11– March 18
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Assignments:
Read online notes, chapters 5.4, 5.6 and 10.2 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 8 - Homework (due March 18)
Lesson 9: Statistical test for using rejection region approach, statistical test for
population mean, how to use confidence interval to draw conclusion about two
sided test, power and sample sizes
Time frame:
March 18 – March 25
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Assignments:
Read online notes, chapters 5.4, 5.5, 5.7 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 9 - Homework (due March 25)
Project Data set available and is due April 26
Lesson 10: Comparing two population means, independent samples versus paired
data, two sample t-test, paired t-test
Time frame:
March 25 – April 8 NOTE this spans TWO weeks BUT includes
Exam two!!!
Assignments:
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Read online notes, chapters 6.1, 6.2 and 6.4 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 10 - Homework (due April 8)
Contact your proctor to arrange for the final exam. Note this
relates to your completing the proctor form in week 1.
EXAM TWO
April 1 – April 5
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At home test Available April 1 and is due April 5
Content: (Lesson 5 – Lesson 9) note: lesson 5 is overlap with Midterm 1
Down loaded from the Exam folder, you should submit the completed test
within 3 hours.
On-line Proctor Exam (Final exam) Request Form should be submitted by
April 2. Again, you may have already completed this by now. Just making
sure you have it completed so there are no hiccups for final exam, or if
something has occurred since week 1, new arrangements can be made.
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Lesson 11: Comparing two population proportions, contingency table and Chisquare test of independence, comparing two population variances
Time frame:
April 8 – April 15
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Assignments:
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Read online notes, chapters 10.3, 10.6 and 7.3 in the
textbook
Work on Lesson 11 - Homework (due April 15)
On-line Proctor Exam (Final exam ) Request Form should
have been submitted by now!!
Project (Data set available March 18)
March 18 – April 26
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Individual submission due April 26
Lesson 12: Simple linear regression, correlation, inferences for simple linear
regression
Time frame:
April 15 – April 22
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Assignments:
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Read online notes, chapters 11.1-11.4 and 11.7 in the
textbook
Work on Lesson 12 - Homework (due April 22)
Lesson 13: Multiple regression, one-way ANOVA
Note: The details in Lesson 13 are NOT required for the final exam.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
April 22 – April 29
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Read online notes, chapters 12.1-12.3, 15.1 and 15.2 in the
textbook
Work on Lesson 13 - Homework (no need to submit)
Final Exam [Note: Final exam should be taken by May 5.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
April 30 – May 5
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Final Exam open book, open notes, proctored
On-line Proctor Exam (Final exam) Request Form should
be submitted by now!!
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