Honors Introduction to Statistics
STA 2023, Spring 2007

 

Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics, 4th edition, David Moore 

Date

Topic

Sections

Assignment (to be completed before next class)

M

Aug 27

Distributions and graphs

1

11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 37, 44

W

Aug 29                      

Center and spread

2

8, 11-17, 19, 20-22, 26, 28, 29, 38, 40, 46

F

Aug 31

Lab

 

 

M

Sept 3

Labor Day, no class

 

 

W

Sept 5

Normal distributions

3

1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23, 24, 27, 31-43 odd

F

Sept 7

Scatterplots, correlation

4

4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36, 39

M

Sept 10

Regression

5

5, 7, 9, 11, 24, 25, 26, 31, 33, 34, 41, 43, 50, 53

W

Sept 12

Comparisons, Two-Way tables

6

1, 7, 19-25, 27, 29, 30

F

Sept 14

Lab

 

 

M

Sept 17

REVIEW

7

17-22, 35, 36, 39-41, 43, 50

W

Sept 19

TEST 1

 

Covers Chapters 1-7

F

Sept 21

Lab

 

 

M

Sept 24

Sampling

8

1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, 33, 36, 39, 41, 46, 49, 50

W

Sept 26

Experiments

9

2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40,45, 46;
Read Ethics section

F

Sept 28

Lab

 

 

M

Oct 1

Probability and Randomness

10

4, 6, 7, 19, 21-24, 30, 34, 38, 39, 41, 45, 46, 47, 51, 53

W

Oct 3

Central Limit Theorem

11

6- 9, 12, 20-24, 25, 35, 38, 41, 43, 45                            

F

Oct 5

Lab, Start Project 2

 

 

M

Oct 8

Probability Rules

12

1, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 16, 21, 25, 43, 45, 52-53

W

Oct 10

Binomial dist

13

7, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, 28, 30, 35

F

Oct 12

Lab

 

 

M

Oct 15

Confidence Intervals, sample size

14

1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 17, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 37

W

Oct 17

Hypothesis testing

15

1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26-35, 37, 43, 52-53

F

Oct 19

Lab

 

 

M

Oct 22

Inference in practice

16

2, 5, 27, 28, 34, 42, 48, 51

W

Oct 24

REVIEW

17

2, 5ac, 13, 17, 23, 26, 37, 45, 47, 49, (51, 55, 61)

F

Oct 26

Lab

 

 

M

Oct 29

TEST 2

 

Covers Chapters  8-17

W

Oct 31

t procedures

18

1, 5,7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 27ab, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45

F

Nov 2

Lab

 

 

M

Nov 5

Comparing means

19

5, 7, 9, 42, 43, 45, 51

W

Nov 7

Inference for proportions

20

3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 29, 37, 41

F

Nov 9

Lab

 

 

M

Nov 12

Veteran’s Day, no class

 

 

W

Nov 14

Comparing two proportions

21

2, 4, 6, 19-21, 22, 24, 26, 32

F

Nov 16

Lab

 

 

M

Nov 19

REVIEW

22

2, 5, 12-16, 25, 26, 45, 51

W

Nov 21

TEST 3

 

 Covers Ch 18-22

F

Nov 23

Thanksgiving Break, no class

 

 

M

Nov 26

Inference for two-way tables

23

 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 32, 39, 40, 42

W

Nov 28

Inference for regression

24

 1, 3, 5, 10, 13, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37                              

F

Nov 30

Lab

 

 

M

Dec 3

Multiple Regression

 

 TBA

W

Dec 5

Review

 

 

Su

Dec 9

FINAL EXAM
10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.