Math 243: Introduction to Probablity and Statistics, Summer 2004

Course information

Handouts

Handouts are in the Portable Document File (PDF) format and require a special reader. The Adobe Reader is the most common--in fact, it might already be installed on your computer. The Adobe Reader is also included on the Duckware CD-ROM available from Microcomputer Services.

• Syllabus
  Please note: The midterm will take place on Monday, 12 July 2004, not 11 July, which is indeed a Sunday. (Oops.)
• Week 2 worksheet
• Discrete probability worksheet
• Central Limit Theorem on the web!
• Confidence intervals worksheet
• Midterm information (does not include practice problems)
• Significance tests (z-test) worksheet
• t procedures worksheet
• Two-sample t procedures worksheet
• Confidence intervals for a population proportion worksheet
• Proportion testing (and other stuff) worksheet
• Two-population proportion testing worksheet
• Regression worksheet
• About the final (does not include practice problems)

Midterm results

• Midterm (held 12 July 2004)
• Five-number summary of scores: 37 47 51 54.5 57
• 55 points possible

Final results

• Final (held 12 August 2004):
  • Form A (Yellow)
  • Form B (Blue)
• Errors (announced during the final):
  • Form B, Question 8, should read "free of outliers".
  • Form A, Question 15, and Form B, Question 13, should read "confidence interval" (rather than "confidence level").
• Solutions (to both forms)
• Five-number summary of scores: 24 39 47 49.5 53
• 55 points possible

Homework

• Due Monday, 28 June 2004: Ch. 1, Ch. 2
• Due Tuesday, 6 July 2004: Ch. 3, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9
• Due Monday, 12 July 2004: Ch. 10, Ch. 13
• Due Monday, 19 July 2004: Ch. 14, Ch. 15
• Due Monday, 26 July 2004: Ch. 16, Ch. 17
• Due Monday, 2 August 2004: Ch. 18, Ch. 19 (and perhaps more)
• Extra credit assignment: Ch. 19 (Due Monday, 9 August 2004)

Last updated: 12 August 2004