Course Schedule - Course begins January 13 and ends May 6
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PROCTORED Final exam to be scheduled May 1 – May 6, 2014
Getting Started
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 13 – January 18
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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)
Complete the activities in the Practice Folder (see the Lessons
tab) by August 31
Proctor form needs to be submitted by January 20
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Lesson 1: An overview of Statistics, gathering data and graphical methods,
introduction to Minitab
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 13 – January 22
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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 22)
Lesson 2: Summarizing data: measures of central tendency and measures of
variability, box plot
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 22 – January 29
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Read online notes, chapters 3.4 - 3.6 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 2 - Homework (due January 29)
Lesson 3: Probabilities, conditional probability and independence, types of
variables and probability distributions
Time frame:
Assignments:
January 29 – February 5
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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 5)
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Lesson 4: Binomial distribution and normal distribution
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 5– February 12
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Read online notes, chapters 4.8 - 4.10 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 4 - Homework (due February 12)
Lesson 5: Sampling distribution and central limit theorem
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 12 – February 19
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Read online notes, chapters 4.10 - 4.12 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 5 - Homework (due February 19)
Lesson 6: Introduction to inferences, confidence interval for population
proportion, margin of error and sample size computation
Time frame:
Assignments:
February 19 – March 5 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 5)
EXAM ONE
Time frame:
February 26 – March 2
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At home test Available February 26 and is due March 2
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 5 – March 12
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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 12)
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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 12– March 19
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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 19)
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 19 – March 26
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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 26)
Project Data set available
Lesson 10: Comparing two population means, independent samples versus paired
data, two sample t-test, paired t-test
Time frame:
March 26 – April 9 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 9)
Contact your proctor to arrange for the final exam.
EXAM TWO
April 2 – April 6
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At home test Available April 2 and is due April 6
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 1 (Final exam ) Request Form should be submitted
by April 3.
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Lesson 11: Comparing two population proportions, contingency table and Chisquare test of independence, comparing two population variances
Time frame:
April 9 – April 16
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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 16)
On-line Proctor Exam 1 (Final exam ) Request Form
should have been submitted by now!!
Project (Data set available March 19)
March 19 – April 27
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Individual submission due April 27
Lesson 12: Simple linear regression, correlation, inferences for simple linear
regression
Time frame:
April 16 – April 23
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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 23)
Lesson 13: Multiple regression, one-way ANOVA
Note: The details in Lesson 13 are NOT required for the final exam.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
April 23 – April 30
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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 6.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
May 1 – May 6
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Final Exam open book, open notes, proctored
On-line Proctor Exam 1 (Final exam ) Request
should be submitted by now!!
Form
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