Mat 318: Statistics in the Sciences
Spring 2008

Textbook: Elementary Statistics by Triola, 10th edition, Addison Wesley

Calendar:

 

 

 

Jan 25 Introduction, graphs

Jan 28 Descriptive statistics

Jan 30 Percentiles, quartiles, boxplot

Feb 1 Snow Day

Feb 4 Lab

Feb 6 Probability

 Feb 8 Probability

Feb 11 Snow day

Feb 13
Discrete Random Variables,
expected value, variance 

Feb 15 Review, Quiz 1
Quiz 1 Key

Feb 18 Binomial

Feb 20 Normal
Project 1 due

Feb 22 Normal; Quiz 3

Feb 25  Normal

Feb 27 Lab

Feb 29 EXAM 1

Mar 3 Sampling distribution, CLT

Mar 5 Binom ~ Normal

Mar 7 Quiz 4

Mar 10 Confidence interval for
proportion.

Mar 12 CI mean

Mar 14 CI mean

Mar 17 CI lab

Mar 19 Quiz 5

Mar 21 No class

Mar 31 Hypothesis tests: Mean

Apr 2 Hypothesis tests: Mean

Apr 4 Quiz 6

Apr 7 HT proportion

Apr 9 HT proportion

Apr 11 EXAM 2

 Apr 14 HT 2 proportions

Apr 16 HT 2 means Lab

Apr 18 Lab

 Apr 21 Correlation
http://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/GuessCorrelation/GuessCorrelation.html
Minitab files are here   Excel file is here

Apr 23 Quest - No class

Apr 25 Regression

Apr 28 Regression lab (Snygg 6)
 Minitab project file is here 

Apr 30 Regression

May 2 Lab

 May 5 Chi Square

May 7 Chi Square

9 Review

 

 

May 16
 FINAL EXAM 8:00-10:00

Data files:

Useful websites:
www.whfreeman.com/ips (especially the applets!)
http://www.engr.udayton.edu/weather/
http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/
http://www.greenhybrid.com/

 Last Updated 4/27/08