Course Schedule - Course begins August 26 and ends December 17
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PROCTORED Final exam to be scheduled Dec 12 – Dec 17, 2013
Getting Started
Time frame:
Assignments:
August 26 – August 31
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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 Sept 2
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Lesson 1: An overview of Statistics, gathering data and graphical methods,
introduction to Minitab
Time frame:
Assignments:
August 26 – Sept 4
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Read online notes, chapters 1, 2, 3.1 and 3.3 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 1 - Homework (due Sept 4)
Lesson 2: Summarizing data: measures of central tendency and measures of
variability, box plot
Time frame:
Assignments:
Sept 4 – Sept 11
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Read online notes, chapters 3.4 - 3.6 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 2 - Homework (due Sept 11)
Lesson 3: Probabilities, conditional probability and independence, types of
variables and probability distributions
Time frame:
Assignments:
Sept 11 – Sept 18
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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 Sept 18)
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Lesson 4: Binomial distribution and normal distribution
Time frame:
Assignments:
Sept 18 – Sept 25
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Read online notes, chapters 4.8 - 4.10 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 4 - Homework (due Sept 25)
Lesson 5: Sampling distribution and central limit theorem
Time frame:
Assignments:
Sept 25 – Oct 2
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Read online notes, chapters 4.10 - 4.12 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 5 - Homework (due Oct 2)
Lesson 6: Introduction to inferences, confidence interval for population
proportion, margin of error and sample size computation
Time frame:
Assignments:
Oct 2 – Oct 16 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 Oct 16)
EXAM ONE
Time frame:
Oct 9 – Oct 13
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At home test Available Oct 9 and is due Oct 13
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:
Oct 16 – Oct 23
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Read online notes, chapters 5.7, 5.2 and 5.3 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 7 - Homework (due Oct 23)
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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:
Oct 23 – Oct 30
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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 Oct 30)
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:
Oct 30 – Nov 6
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Assignments:
Read online notes, chapters 5.4, 5.5, 5.7 in the textbook
Work on Lesson 9 - Homework (due Nov 6)
Lesson 10: Comparing two population means, independent samples versus paired
data, two sample t-test, paired t-test
Time frame:
Nov 6 – Nov 20 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 Nov 20)
Contact your proctor to arrange for the final exam.
EXAM TWO
Nov 13 – Nov 17
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At home test Available Nov 3 and is due Nov 17
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 Nov 14.
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Lesson 11: Comparing two population proportions, contingency table and Chisquare test of independence, comparing two population variances
Time frame:
Nov 20 – Nov 27
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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 Nov 27)
Project (Data set available October 31)
Oct 31 – Dec 8
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Individual submission due Dec 8
Lesson 12: Simple linear regression, correlation, inferences for simple linear
regression
Time frame:
Nov 27 – Dec 4
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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 Dec 4)
Lesson 13: Multiple regression, one-way ANOVA
Note: The details in Lesson 13 are not required for the final exam.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
Dec 4 – Dec 11
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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 Dec 17.]
Time frame:
Assignments:
Dec 12 – Dec 17
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Final Exam open book, open notes, proctored
On-line Proctor Exam 1 (Final exam ) Request
should be submitted by Nov 15.
Form
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