Math 141 - Introductory Statistics - Tentative Syllabus

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All numbers indicate sections from The Basic Practice of Statisticsby David Moore.


Monday
Wednesday
1/29Welcome to Math 141 1/311.1 Displaying Distributions with Graphs
1.2 Displaying Distributions with Numbers
2/51.2 Displaying Distrib with Numbers (cont)
1.3 The Normal Distribution
2/71.3 The Normal Distribution (cont)
2/122.1 Scatterplots
2.2 Correlation
2.3 Least-Squares Regression
2/14Sick day. No Class.
2/192.3 Least-Squares Regression (cont)
2.4 Cautions about Correlation and Regression
2/21Exam 1
Covers thru 2.4
2/263.1 Designing Samples
3.2 Designing Experiments
2/284.1 Randomness
4.2 Probability Models
4.3 Sampling Distributions
3/54.3 Sampling Distributions
6.1 Estimating with Confidence
3/76.2 Tests of Significance
3/12Spring Break 3/14Spring Break
3/196.3 Making Sense of Statistical Significance 3/217.1 Inference for the Mean of a Population
3/26Exam 2
Covers thru 6.3
3/287.2 Comparing Two Means
4/22.5 Relations in Categorical Data
8.1 Inference for a Population Proportion
4/48.2 Comparing Two Proportions
4/9The Big Picture 4/119.1 Two-Way Tables
9.2 The Chi-Square Test
4/169.2 The Chi-Square Test (cont) 4/18Exam 3
Covers thru 9.2
4/23Putting it all together 4/25Putting it all together
4/30Project Presentations 5/2Project Presentations

Final Exam, Friday, May 11, 9:00-12:00 am

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