Math 121 - Spring 2018

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Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 1/15   1     Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here)  
2 1/17   2     Measures of center     2.25  
3 1/19   2     Measures of spread     2.32, 2.50 (See here)  
4 1/22   3     Normal distributions     3.26, 3.35, 3.36  
5 1/24   3     Normal distributions     3.41, 3.42  
6 1/26   4     Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 1/29   5     Regression     5.28, 5.37  
8 1/31   5     Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56  
9 2/02   6     Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24  
10 2/05   6     Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32  
11 2/07   8     Producing data: sampling     7.18, 8.27, 8.34  
12 2/09   8     Bias versus random error      
13 2/12   9     Producing data: experiments      
14 2/14       Midterm 1      
15 2/16   10     Probability distributions     10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 2/19   10     Continuous distributions     10.49, 10.50, 10.52  
17 2/21   11     Weighted averages     11.24 and these problems  
18 2/23   11     Law of large numbers     11.26, 11.37  
19 2/26   11     Sampling distributions     11.38, 11.39  
20 2/28   12     Independence, tree diagrams     12.27, 12.30, 12.31  
21 3/02   12     Conditional probability      
22 3/12   12     Conditional probability     12.36, 12.39, 12.48, 12.50, 12.54  
23 3/14   13     Binomial distributions     13.27, 13.38, 13.39  
24 3/16   14     Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.27  
25 3/19   14     Confidence intervals      
26 3/21       Midterm 2      
27 3/23   15     Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.36  
28 3/26   16     Thinking about inference     15.40, 15.41, 16.30, 16.31  
29 3/28   18     The t-distribution     18.27, 18.35  
30 3/30   18     Inference about means     18.40, 18.41, 18.45  
31 4/02   18     Matched pairs     18.29, 18.46, 18.47  
32 4/04   19     Two-sample problems     19.26, 19.28  
33 4/06   19     Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50  
34 4/09   20     Inference about proportions     20.25, 20.26, 20.36  
35 4/11   20     Inference about proportions     20.39, 20.41  
36 4/13   21     Comparing two proportions     21.17, 21.19, 21.35  
37 4/16   21     Comparing two proportions      
38 4/18       Midterm 3      
39 4/20   23     Chi-squared test     22.48, 22.50, 22.52  
40 4/23   23     Chi-squared test     23.29, 23.30, 23.40, 23.41, 23.42  
41 4/25       Logarithmic scales      
42 4/27       Log-scales and regression      

Final Exam: Thursday, May 3, 1:30-4:30pm