Wk Day Day Name Date Event Other
1 1 Monday 1/15/01 1.1 Organizing Data
1 2 Wednesday 1/17/01 1.2 Random Samples
1 3 Friday 1/19/01 1.3 Graphs Q1, LDTAdd
2 4 Monday 1/22/01 1.4 Histograms
2 5 Wednesday 1/24/01 1.5 Stem and Leaf
2 6 Friday 1/26/01 2.1 Cent Tend Q2, LNoRec
3 7 Monday 1/29/01 2.2 Measures of Variation
3 8 Wednesday 1/31/01 2.3 Box and Whisker plots
3 9 Friday 2/2/01 Test One
4 10 Monday 2/5/01 T1 Review
4 11 Wednesday 2/7/01 3.1 Intro to Paired Data
4 12 Friday 2/9/01 3.2 Linear Regression Q3
5 13 Monday 2/12/01 3.3 Correlation Early warn
5 14 Wednesday 2/14/01 4.1 Probability
5 15 Friday 2/16/01 4.2 Compound events Quiz 4
6 16 Monday 2/19/01 4.3 Trees and counting
6 17 Wednesday 2/21/01 5.1 Binomial Probability Dist
6 18 Friday 2/23/01 5.2 Binomial Probabilities Q5
7 19 Monday 2/26/01 5.3 Mean and StDev of Binom Dist
7 20 Wednesday 2/28/01
7 21 Friday 3/2/01 Midterm exam
8 22 Monday 3/5/01 Review midterm
8 23 Wednesday 3/7/01 6.1 Graphs of Normal Dist
8 24 Friday 3/9/01 6.2 Standard Units Q6
9 25 Monday 3/12/01 6.3 Normal curve areas
9 26 Wednesday 3/14/01 6.4 Normal Approx to Binomial
9 27 Friday 3/16/01 No class: Staff Dev Day
10 28 Monday 3/19/01 7.1 Sampling Distributions
10 29 Wednesday 3/21/01 7.2 Central Limit Theorem
10 30 Friday 3/23/01 7.3 Class Project Q7
11 31 Monday 3/26/01 8.1 Estimating m large n LTWWW
11 32 Wednesday 3/28/01 Test Two
11 33 Friday 3/30/01 Cultural Day
12 34 Monday 4/2/01 Review T2 Course prereg
12 35 Wednesday 4/4/01 8.2 Est m small n
12 36 Friday 4/6/01 8.3 Estimating P in binomial Q8
13 37 Monday 4/9/01 8.4 Choosing a sample size
13 38 Wednesday 4/11/01 Easter recess
13 39 Friday 4/13/01 Good Friday
14 40 Monday 4/16/01 9.1 Hypothesis Testing Early reg
14 41 Wednesday 4/18/01 9.2 Large n
14 42 Friday 4/20/01 9.3 P for large n Q9
15 43 Monday 4/23/01 9.4 T-tests for small n
15 44 Wednesday 4/25/01 9.5 Proportion tests
15 45 Friday 4/27/01 10.1 Inferences about diff Q10
16 46 Monday 4/30/01 10.2 Inferences about means
16 47 Wednesday 5/2/01 10.3 Inferences
16 48 Friday 5/4/01 11.1 Chi square Q11
17 49 Monday 5/7/01 11.2 Chi square fit
17 50 Wednesday 5/9/01 11.4 Testing variance
17 51 Friday 5/11/01 Last Day
18 52 Monday 5/14/01
18 53 Wednesday 5/16/01 Statistics Final 14:15
19 55 Friday 5/25/01 Graduation

Quizzes are given every Friday that there is not a test.  Quizzes may be moved to Wednesday when Friday is a holiday. Items in grey are optional and are covered on a time available basis.

Statistics Office hours: Room F105 10:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. MWF or walk-in any time.
Instructor: Dana Lee Ling. 320-2962.

Seven absences results in withdrawal from the course. A late is one third of an absence. Thus any combination of absences and lates that adds to seven will result in withdrawal. For example, twenty-one lates would result in withdrawal.

No betelnut in class nor on campus except in the cultural huts.
No spitting over the balcony!

Required Textbook: Understanding Basic Statistics, Brase and Brase.

Health cautions.

Grading policy:
Homework is worth 1 to 3 points.
Quizzes are worth on the order of 5 to 10 points each.
Tests are worth on the order of 20 points.
The midterm is worth roughly 40 points.
The final is worth up to roughly 60 points.
The term as a whole will generate some 200 plus points.
Grading is based on the standard College policy: Obtain 90% of the points or more to obtain an A, 80% to 89% for a B, and so forth.

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