Math 141 - Introductory Statistics - Tentative Syllabus

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


Monday/Tuesday
Wednesday/Thursday
1/31(2/1)Welcome to Math 141 2/2(2/3)1.1 Displaying Distributions with Graphs
Introduction to Excel
2/7(2/8)1.2 Displaying Distributions with Numbers 2/9(2/10)1.3 The Normal Distribution
2/14(2/15)1.3 The Normal Distribution 2/16(2/17)2.1 Scatterplots
2.2 Correlation
2/21(2/22)2.3 Least-Squares Regression 2/23(2/24)Exam 1 (Covers thru 2.2)
2/28(2/29)2.4 Cautions about Correlation
and Regression
3/1/(3/2)3.1 Designing Samples
3/6(3/7)3.2 Designing Experiments 3/8(3/9)Discuss Project
3/13(3/14) Spring Break 3/15(3/16) Spring Break
3/20(3/21)4.1 Randomness
4.2 Probability Models
3/22(3/23)4.3 Sampling Distributions
3/27(3/28)6.1 Estimating with Confidence 3/29(3/30)Exam 2 (Covers thru 4.3)
4/3(4/4)6.2 Tests of Significance 4/5(4/6)6.3 Making Sense of Statistical Significance
4/10(4/11)7.1 Inference for the Mean of a Population 4/12(4/13)7.2 Comparing Two Means
4/17(4/18)2.5 Relations in Categorical Data
8.1 Inference for a Population Proportion
4/19(4/20)8.2 Comparing Two Proportions
4/24(4/25)9.1 Two-Way Tables
9.2 The Chi-Square Test
4/26(4/27)9.2 The Chi-Square Test
5/1(5/2)Exam 3 (Covers thru 9.2) 5/3(5/4)Course Overview

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