Math 141 - Introductory Statistics - Reading Assignments
April 2000

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All numbers indicate sections from The Basic Practice of Statistics, Second Edition.

For Monday April 3 / Tuesday April 4

Section 6.2 Tests of Significance

To read : All of Section 6.2

Be sure to understand :
Examples 6.8, 6.10, and 6.12
The definition of the null hypothesis, p-value, statistical significance, and z-test

Email Subject Line : Math 141-03 4/3 Your Name
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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 6.28 and 6.35

For Wednesday April 5 / Thursday April 6

Section 6.3 Making Sense of Statistical Inference

To read : All of Section 6.3

Be sure to understand :
Examples 6.18 and 6.19

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 6.55 and 6.56

For Monday April 10 / Tuesday April 11

Section 7.1 Inference for the Mean of a Population

To read : All of Section 7.1

Be sure to understand :
The definition of standard error and one-sample t statistic
Examples 7.1, 7.2,and 7.3
The guidelines for using t procedures (pg 380)

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 7.6 and 7.8

For Wednesday April 12 / Thursday April 13

Section 7.2 Comparing Two Means

To read : Section 7.2 through page 401

Be sure to understand :
The section on two-sample t procedures
Example 7.8

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 7.31 and 7.33

For Monday April 17 / Tuesday April 18

Section 2.5 Relations in Categorical Data
Section 8.1 Inference for a Population Proportion

To read : All of Sections 2.5 and 8.1

Be sure to understand :
Examples 2.22 and 2.23
The sections "Assumptions for Inference" and "The z procedures"
Example 8.4

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 2.72 and 8.7

For Wednesday April 19 / Thursday April 20

Section 8.2 Comparing Two Proportions

To read : All of Section 8.2

Be sure to understand :
Examples 8.4 and 8.10
"Confidence intervals for comparing two proportions" (pg 449)
"Significance test for comparing two proportions" (pg 453)

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 8.24

For Monday April 24 / Tuesday April 25

Section 9.1 Two-Way Tables
Section 9.2 The Chi-Square Test

To read : Introduction to Chapter 9 and all of Section 9.1 and 9.2

Be sure to understand :
The section "The problem of multiple comparisons"
The definition of the chi-square statistic
The section "The chi-square distributions"

Email Subject Line : Math 141-03 4/24 Your Name
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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 9.1abde and 9.3

For Wednesday April 26 / Thursday April 27

Section 9.2 The Chi-Square Test

To read : Reread Section 9.2

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Reading Questions : Apply Your Knowledge 9.8abcd

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