Readings and Assignments

Doe on Monday, May 29
Read Chapter 26.
Page 625: 3*(except b), 5, 9*
You may still turn in Lab 3 if you wish.
Review for exam (chapters 19-26), which is on Wednesday. Bring questions to class.
Review problems: Part V (p 512): 5, 11, 19, 23, 34; Part VI (p 596): 1, 9, 11, 25, 27, 35
Due on Friday, May 26
Read quickly through Chapters 24 and 25.
Page 565: 1*, 3*, 23, 33; Page 586: 1, 7, 17(a,b)*, 19
Look over Chapter 26.
Lab 3 is optional. You may do it if you wish. If you choose to skip it, I will take the average grade for your other two papers and count that as your third. You may do this individually or in a team of your choice (but must be different from the first paper).
Due on Wednesday, May 24
Read Chapter 23.
Page 539: 3, 5, 11*(a-e), 13*, 27*
Feel free to use this t-distribution calculator for the above problems.
Remember that Friday's class is in the Statistics Lab, CMC 201. Bring your lab manual with your textbook.
Due on Monday, May 22
Read Chapter 22.
Page 506: 3, 5, 9*, 23*, 25
Look over Chapter 23.
Due on Friday, May 19
Read Chapter 21
Page 489: 3, 5, 9, 13*, 15*, 25*, 27
Look over Chapter 22.
Due on Wednesday, May 17
Read Chapter 20.
Page 467: 1, 3, 9, 11*, 13, 15*, 23*
Look over Chapter 21.
Due on Friday, May 12
Send me an email with preferences for the final project, so that I can create teams. Tell me if you have a subject area of preference, who (if anyone) you'd like to have on your team, whether I should rank area or teammates more heavily for you in picking a team, whether or not you want to work on the project early, and if there's anything else I need to know. If I don't hear from you by Friday, I'll assign you to teams without any preference info from you.
Study for exam. Remember to bring a calculator.
Optional review problems (don't turn in): Part III (p. 313), 1, 5, 13, 23, 29, 35, 41; Part IV (p 398): 3, 15, 23, 25, 35, 43; page 426: 7, 35
Due on Wednesday, May 10
Read Chapter 19.
Page 443: 3*, 5*, 7, 23, 29*, 37
Review for exam, which is on Friday. Bring questions to class.
Due on Monday, May 8
Read Chapter 18.
Page 423: 1, 3, 5, 15*, 23, 29, 31*, 33* (Remember to show your work to receive credit for homework.)
(Note: the answer in the book for 33 is wrong.)
Play with this sampling distribution applet that we used in class.
Due on Friday, May 5
Read Chapter 16.
Page 375: 5, 13, 23*, 31, 33*, 37
Skip Chapter 17. Look over Chapter 18.
Due on Wednesday, May 3
Read Chapter 15.
Page 356: 9*, 11, 15, 31, 39, 43*, 45
Paper #2 is due.
Look over Chapter 16.
Due on Friday, 4/28
Read Chapter 14.
Page 333: 17, 19, 21, 24*, 26*, 27, 31, 33
Also to turn in: Simulate the probability that you found in 24(b)(4). Use the random number generator at random.org to simulate the experiment. Make sure that you have enough trials (at least 40) to get a reasonable estimate. You may do the counting by hand, or feel free to use Excel or some other tool if you find it useful. Explain briefly how you used random.org, and how you used the results to obtain your answer.
Look over Chapter 15.
Due on Wednesday, 4/26
Read Chapter 13.
Page 307: 1, 3, 5, 19*, 25*, 32*, 37
Start Paper 2. It will be due on Wednesday, May 3. This paper is to be done individually.
Look over Chapter 14.
Due on Monday, 4/24
Read Chapter 12.
Page 283: 3, 4*, 9, 11, 15, 23*, 25, 31
Look over Chapter 13.
Due on Friday, 4/21
Read Chapter 11.
Page 262: 7, 29*, 35, 36*
Look over Chapter 12.
Due on Wednesday, 4/19
Study for exam.
Remember to bring a calculator.
Due on Monday, 4/17
Read Chapter 9.
Skim Chapter 10.
Page 210: 5, 9, 11, 13, 17
Page 234: 11* (note that the CD has an error in the data for this problem, and that the answer in the back doesn't have enough significant figures)
Page 245: 28*, 31
Some additional useful review problems: Page 129: 7, 29, 33; Page 239: 7, 13, 15, 39
Due on Friday, 4/14
Read Chapter 8.
Page 185: 3, 8*, 10*, 12*, 14*, 21, 23, 41
Play with this least-squares applet.
Remember that Friday's class is in the Statistics Lab, CMC 201. Bring your lab manual with your textbook.
Look over Chapters 9 and 10.
Remember that exam #1 is on Wednesday, 4/19. Start reviewing now.
Due on Wednesday, 4/12
Read Chapter 7.
Lab 1.
Play the Guessing Correlations Game.
Page 158: 3, 13, 17, 29, 33, 35 (nothing to turn in)
Due on Monday, 4/10
Read the starred sections at the end of Chapters 4 and 5 on re-expressing data.
Pages 70-71 (chap 4): 39, 31
Pages 98-99 (chap 5): 48*, 49*, 50*
Read The Median Isn't The Message by Stephen Jay Gould.
Look over Chapters 7 and 8.
Remember that Paper 1 is due Wednesday.
Due on Friday, 4/7
Read Chapter 6.
Pages 89-99 (chap 5): 3, 11, 23, 27*, 28*, 33, 35, 40*.
Pages 121-127 (chap 6): 1, 3, 23*, 25, 29(a,c), 31(b,d), 42*, 49
Use SPSS for the graphs and summary statistics. Put care into the presentation.
Look over the starred sections at the end of Chapters 4 and 5 on re-expressing data.
Due on Wednesday, 4/5
Read Chapter 5.
Pages 63-70 (chap 4): 3, 5, 11, 19, 34*, 35, 38*.
Page 137 (part I review): 37.
Use SPSS on the graphs and descriptive statistics for the above problems.
Look over Chapter 6.
Due on Tuesday, 4/4
Read Chapter 4.
Look over Chapter 5.
Due on Monday, 4/3
Read Chapter 3.
Pages 15-18: 3, 11*, 23
Pages 36-44: 10*, 13, 19.
Look over Chapter 4.
Remember that Monday's class is in the Statistics Lab, CMC 201. Bring your lab manual with your textbook.
Optional fun: Find a graph in a newspaper, magazine, or on the Internet that violates the Area Principle. Bring it to class.
Due on Wednesday, 3/29
Read the Prelude and Chapter 1, particularly the last paragraph of Chapter 1.
Look over Chapters 2 and 3.
Introductory email to me: tell me about yourself! Why are you taking this class? Do you have any previous experience with statistics? Do you have a major, or are there majors that you are considering? What else would you like to tell me about yourself (hobbies, interests, etc.)?
Look at this class survey data in Excel. You can also look at the survey itself. Without doing any fancy statistics (you haven't learned any yet!) what story does the data tell about your classmates? Come to class with three interesting observations.

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Turn in the starred problems(*) for grading.