Math 121 - Fall 2014

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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, 2.26 (See here)  
3 9/01 2   Measures of spread     2.21, 2.23, 2.32, 2.44, 2.50 (See here)  
4 9/03 3   Normal distributions     3.27, 3.46 (see here)  
5 9/05 3   Normal distributions     3.35, 3.36, 3.41, 3.42  
6 9/08 4   Scatterplots and correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 9/10 5   Regression     5.28, 5.32, 5.34  
8 9/12 5   Regression     5.37, 5.56  
9 9/15 6   Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24, 6.28  
10 9/17 6   Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32  
11 9/19 8   Producing data: sampling     8.27, 8.34, 8.39  
12 9/22 8   Bias versus random error     9.28, 9.29, 9.30, 9.47, 9.48  
13 9/24 9   Producing data: experiments      
14 9/26   Midterm 1      
15 9/29 10   Probability distributions     10.31, 10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 10/01 10   Basic probability     10.44, 10.49, 10.50  
17 10/03 10   Continuous distributions     10.51, 10.52  
18 10/06 11   Law of large numbers     11.16, 11.24, 11.37 and these problems  
19 10/08 11   Sampling distributions     11.26, 11.27, 11.29, 11.30  
20 10/10 11   Central limit theorem     11.36, 11.38, 11.39, 11.40  
21 10/15 12   Independence, tree diagrams     12.27, 12.30, 12.31, 12.54  
22 10/17 12   Conditional probability     12.48, 12.50  
23 10/20 13   Binomial distributions     13.22, 13.24, 13.27, 13.29  
24 10/22 13   Binomial distributions      
25 10/24   Midterm 2     13.38, 13.39  
26 10/27 14   Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.26, 14.27  
27 10/29 15   Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.33, 15.36, 15.40  
28 10/31 16   Thinking about inference     16.30, 16.31, 16.34  
29 11/03 18   The t-distribution     18.26, 18.28, 18.30, 18.35, 18.36  
30 11/05 18   Inference about means     18.27, 18.29  
31 11/07 18   Matched pairs      
32 11/10 19   Two-sample problems     18.40, 18.41, 18.42, 18.43, 18.44  
33 11/12 19   Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.35, 19.48, 19.50  
34 11/14 20   Inference about proportions     20.38, 20.41  
35 11/17 20   Inference about proportions     20.26, 20.31, 20.32, 20.36  
36 11/19 21   Comparing two proportions     21.18, 21.19, 21.20  
37 11/21 21   Comparing two proportions      
38 11/24   Midterm 3      
39 12/01   Logarithmic scales     Finish the in-class problems  
40 12/03   Benford's law     Finish the in-class problems  
41 12/05 23   The chi-squared test     23.16, 23.17, 23.28  
42 12/08 23   The chi-squared test     23.29, 23.35, 23.37, 23.38, 23.39