Tentative Class Schedule

Lecture Date Main Topics Supplement Reading

1. January 17 Syllabus, Course Policies --------------------------
2. January 19 Introduction and Basic Definitions pages 1 – 8
3. January 22 Article Activity, Intro to Sampling - Bias pages 11 – 16, 17 – 19, 29
4. January 24 Sampling pages 19 – 29
5. January 26 Design of Experiments pages 30 – 37
6. January 29 Questions, Test 1 -------------------------
7. January 31 Stem-and-Leaf Plots pages 43 – 51, 60 – 64
8. February 2 Back-to-Back Stem-and-Leaf Plots, Histograms pages 52 – 56, 60 – 64
9. February 5 Describing Distributions pages 57 – 64
10. February 7 Measures of Center pages 69 – 75, 90 – 93
11. February 9 Measures of Spread pages 76 – 84, 90 – 93
12. February 12 Boxplots pages 85 – 93
13 February 14 Questions, Test 2 -------------------------
14. February 16 Scatterplots and Correlation pages 99 – 110
15. February 19 Anscombe Activity, Regression Line pages 111 – 114, 120 – 121
16. February 21 Regression Line continued pages 115 – 121
17. February 23 Categorical Data pages 122 – 129
18. February 26 Questions, Test 3 --------------------------
19. February 28 Normal Distribution – Introduction, Z Table pages 139 – 144, 158 – 160
20. March 2 Normal Distribution – Z-Score Transformation pages 145 – 150, 158 – 160
March 5 NO CLASS – Spring Break ----------------------------
March 7 NO CLASS – Spring Break ----------------------------
March 9 NO CLASS – Spring Break ----------------------------
21. March 12 Normal Distribution – Applications pages 150 – 152, 158 – 160
22. March 14 Student’s t-Distribution, Sampling Distributions 153 – 160
23. March 16 Questions, Test 4 ----------------------------
24. March 19 Intro to Confidence Intervals; Hypotheses pages 169 – 173, 185 – 186
25. March 21 Intro to Statistical Testing pages 173 – 186

26. March 23 Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion ! p̂ pages 189 – 195, 206 – 207
27. March 26 CI for Population Proportion π pages 195– 201, 207 – 208
28. March 28 Test for Population Proportion π pages 202 – 205, 208-209
29. March 30 Activity – Card Exercise pages 216 – 217
30. April 2 Questions, Test 5 -------------------------------

31. April 4 Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean ! X pages 219 – 224, 243
32. April 6 CI for Population Mean µ, σ Known pages 225 – 229, 244 – 245
33. April 9 CI for Population Mean µ, σ Unknown, Activity pages 230 – 233, 246
34. April 11 Test for Population Mean µ, σ Known pages 234 – 238, 247
35. April 13 Test for Population Mean µ, σ Unknown, Activity pages 239 – 242, 248
36. April 16 Questions, Test 6 ----------------------------

37. April 18 Sampling Distribution of ! X1 − X 2 pages 261 – 265, 281 – 283

38. April 20 CI for ! µ1 − µ 2 , σ Known, σ Unknown pages 266 – 271, 281 – 283

39. April 23 Test for ! µ1 − µ 2 , σ Known, σ Unknown pages 272 – 277, 281 - 283
40. April 25 Paired t-Test, Review of Inference pages 278 – 280, 281 – 283
41. April 27 Questions, Test 7 -------------------------------
42. April 30 Questions, Review, Summary -------------------------------

Final exam: Monday, May 7, 8:00 – 10:50 AM