Math 121 - Fall 2018

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Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 8/27   1     Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here)  
2 8/29   2     Measures of center     2.25  
3 8/31   2     Measures of spread     2.32, 2.50 (See here)  
4 9/03   3     Normal distributions     3.26, 3.35, 3.36  
5 9/05   3     Normal distributions     3.41, 3.42  
6 9/07   4     Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 9/10   5     Regression     5.28, 5.37
8 9/12   5     Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56
9 9/14   6     Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24
10 9/17   6     Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32
11 9/19   8     Producing data: sampling     7.18, 8.27, 8.34
12 9/21   8     Bias versus random error      
13 9/24   9     Producing data: experiments      
14 9/26       Midterm 1      
15 9/28   10     Probability distributions     10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48
16 10/01   11     Weighted averages   11.24 and these problems
17 10/03   11     Random variables     10.41, 10.42
18 10/05   11     Sampling distributions      11.26, 11.37
19 10/08   11     Central limit theorem   11.38, 11.39
20 10/10   12     Independence, tree diagrams   12.27, 12.30, 12.31, 12.32
21 10/12   12     Conditional probability     12.36, 12.39, 12.48, 12.50, 12.54  
22 10/17   13     Binomial distributions     13.27, 13.38, 13.39
23 10/19   14    Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.27
24 10/22   14     Confidence intervals      
25 10/24       Midterm 2      
26 10/26   15     Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.36
27 10/29   16     Thinking about inference     15.40, 15.41, 16.30, 16.31
28 10/31   18     The t-distribution      18.27, 18.35   
29 11/02   18     Inference about means     18.40, 18.41, 18.45
30 11/05   18     Matched pairs   18.29, 18.46, 18.47
31 11/07   19     Two-sample problems   19.26, 19.28
32 11/09   19     Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50
33 11/12   20     Inference about proportions     20.25, 20.26, 20.36
34 11/14   20     Inference about proportions     20.39, 20.41
35 11/16   21     Comparing two proportions   21.17, 21.19, 21.31, 21.35
36 11/19   21     Comparing two proportions      
37 11/26   22     Choosing the right proceedure     22.47, 22.51, 22.53
38 11/28       Midterm 3      
39 11/30       Logarithmic scales      
40 12/03   24     Inference for regression     24.32, 24.34 (parts (a) only)
41 12/05   23     Chi-squared test     23.28, 23.29, 23.30, 23.35
42 12/07   23     Chi-squared test      

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 11, 2:00-5:00pm