Stat 145 – Introduction to Statistics - Syllabus
Spring 2013
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Paul Fawcett
330 Humanities
10 AM Wed Stat Table DSH, 11 AM Wed Alg Table DSH, 12 Noon Wed my office
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Essential Statistics (1st Edition) by David S. Moore
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Chapters 6, 15, and 20 are review chapters. While not assigned, you are encouraged to review them.
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Stat 145 - Tentative Schedule – Spring 2013
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Jan 14
Jan 21
Jan 28
Feb 4
Feb 11
Feb 18
Feb 25
Mar 4
Mar 11
Mar 18
Mar 25
Apr 1
Apr 8
Apr 15
Apr 22
Apr 29
May 6
Material Covered
Notes
Introduction
Ch. 1 Picturing Distributions with Graphs
Ch. 2 Describing Distributions with Numbers
Ch. 2 (cont’d)
Ch. 3 The Normal Distributions
Ch. 3 (cont’d)
Exam 1 (Ch. 1 – 3)
Ch. 4 Scatterplots and Correlation
Ch. 4 (cont’d)
Ch. 5 Regression
Ch. 5 (cont’d)
Ch. 7 Producing Data: Sampling
Ch. 8 Producing Data: Experiments
Ch. 8 (cont’d)
Exam 2 (Ch. 4 – 5, 7 – 8)
Ch. 9 Introducing Probability
Ch. 10 Sampling Distributions
Jan 14 – Instruction Begins
Jan 21– Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Jan 25 – Last day to add courses or change sections
Feb 1 – Last day to drop without a grade
Feb 8– Last day to change grading options
Mar 10-17 – Spring Break
Ch. 10 (cont’d)
Ch. 13 Introduction to Inference
Ch. 13 (cont’d)
Ch. 14 Thinking About Inference
Ch. 14 (cont’d)
Exam 3 (Ch. 9, 10, 13, 14)
Ch. 16 Inference About a Population Mean
Ch. 17 Two-Sample Problems
Ch. 17 (cont’d)
Ch. 18 Inference About a Population Proportion
Ch. 18 (cont’d)
Ch. 21 Two Categorical Variables
Course Review
Final Exam 7:30 am
Apr 12– Last day to withdraw without dean’s approval
May 3 – Last day to withdraw with dean’s approval
May 6 – Final Exam, 7:30 AM, ROOM TBD
May 10 – Last day to report removal of incomplete
Homework Problems
Chapter
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Problems
1, 3, 9, 10, 12-19, 21, 27, 32, 35, 36
1, 2, 4, 6-10, 13-19, 21, 23-25, 36
2-4, 7, 9, 11, 13-21, 23, 31, 32, 37
1, 3, 5 ,8, 12-18, 19 ,21, 22, 27, 28-30 ,33
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15-21, 23, 27-29
3, 5, 7, 11, 13-19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 30, 33, 36-38
1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17-24, 33, 37, 40
5, 6, 7, 10-13, 17-25, 31, 40, 41, 45
2, 3, 7, 8, 10-16, 17, 19, 23, 28, 29, 31
3, 4, 7, 9-12, 19-26, 29, 33, 35, 47, 49, 51
2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11
1-3, 7, 9-13, 15-21, 26, 30
1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 13-19, 22, 24
1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12-19, 34, 36, 37
5, 7, 9, 11
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