MATH 155 Modern Statistics with Computer Analysis

Spring 2011 Tentative Weekly Schedule & Links Handouts

(You can be sure that this schedule will change as the semester progresses.)

The final exam for MATH 155-017 is at 8:30 AM on Tuesday, May 17 .

Week 1:    Introduction to Course; Some Important Statistical Terms; Two Examples; Sample Minitab Output;

                  (Oscar Winners' Ages, Reading Test Scores); Sample Histogram for Reading Test Score; Methods for Describing Sets of Data;

                  Minitab Instructions; In-Class Calculation of Standard Deviation (Score Deviations Graph, Results of In-Class Calculation)

Week 2:    More on Describing Sets of Data; Measures of Central Tendency; Measures of Variability; Interpreting the Standard

                  Deviation; Box Plots &  Outliers

Week 3:    Measures of Relative Standing; z-scores; Methods for Detecting Outliers; Review Chapters 1 & 2

Week 4:    Probability (Events, Sample Spaces, Probability, Events); Assigning Probabilities;  Test #1

Week 5:    Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Conditional Probability; Independent Events Revisited;

Week 6:    Random Variables, Probability Distributions, Binomial Random Variables; The Binomial Distribution

Week 7:    The Binomial Distribution; Use of TI-83/TI-84, TI83Output, MINITAB Output, The Normal Distribution

Week 8:    The Normal Distribution; Assessing Normality; Assessing Normality with MINITAB;

                   Assessing Normality with a TI Calculator;                   

Week 9:     Random Samples & Review; Test #2

Week 10:   Sampling Distributions; The Central Limit Theorem (CLT); Applications of the CLT; Another Application of the CLT,

                    Inferences Based on a Single Large-Sample

Week 11:   Inferences Based on a Single Large-Sample; Inferences Based on a Small Sample; Determining Sample Size;

                   Introduction to Hypothesis Testing   

Week 12:   Hypothesis Testing; Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis about a Population Mean; p-Values; Small-Sample Test;   

Week 13:   In-Class Review of Hypothesis Testing (Solutions); Test #3

Week 14:   Comparing Two Population Means: Independent Sampling; Sign Test;

Week 15:   Comparing Two Population Means: Paired Difference Experiments; Nonparametric Tests for Comparing Two Populations

The Final Exam for MATH 155-017 is at 8:00 am on Tuesday, May 17.