Math 121 - Fall 2015

Announcements

Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 8/26 1   Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here) 
2 8/28 2   Measures of center     2.25, 2.26 (See here)  
3 8/31 2   Measures of spread     2.21, 2.23, 2.32, 2.44, 2.50 (See here)  
4 9/02 3   Normal distributions     3.27, 3.46 (see here)  
5 9/04 3   Normal distributions     3.35, 3.36, 3.41, 3.42  
6 9/07 4   Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 9/09 5   Regression     5.28  
8 9/11 5   Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56 
9 9/14 6   Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24  
10 9/16 6   Simpson's paradox    6.25, 6.32  
11 9/18 8   Producing data: sampling     8.27, 8.34, 8.39  
12 9/21 8   Bias versus random error     9.29, 9.47 (and review problems)  
13 9/23 9   Producing data: experiments      
14 9/25   Midterm 1      
15 9/28 10   Probability distributions     10.31, 10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 9/30 10   Continuous distributions     10.49, 10.50, 10.51, 10.52  
17 10/02 11   Law of large numbers     11.24, 11.37 and these problems  
18 10/05 11   Sampling distributions     11.26, 11.36  
19 10/07 11   Central limit theorem     11.37, 11.38, 11.39  
20 10/09 12   Independence, tree diagrams     12.27, 12.30, 12.31, 12.54  
21 10/12 12   Conditional probability     12.48, 12.50  
22 10/14 13   Binomial distributions     13.22, 13.24, 13.27, 13.29  
23 10/16 13   Binomial distributions     13.38, 13.39  
24 10/21 14   Confidence intervals     review problems  
25 10/23   Midterm 2      
26 10/26 14   Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.26, 14.27  
27 10/28 15   Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.33, 15.36, 15.40  
28 10/30 16   Thinking about inference     16.30, 16.31, 16.34  
29 11/02 18   The t-distribution     18.26, 18.28, 18.30, 18.36  
30 11/04 18   Inference about means     18.27, 18.29, 18.35  
31 11/06 18   Matched pairs      
32 11/09 18   Matched pairs     18.40, 18.41, 18.45, 18.46, 18.47
33 11/11 19   Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50  
34 11/13 19   Two-sample problems      
35 11/16 20   Inference about proportions     20.26, 20.36, 20.40, 20.41, 20.42  
36 11/18 21   Comparing two proportions     21.18, 21.20, 21.34  
37 11/20 21   Comparing two proportions     review problems  
38 11/23   Midterm 3      
39 11/30   Logarithmic scales     Finish handout 1 and handout 2  
40 12/02   Benford's law     23.15, 23.16, 23.17 (on p. 575)  
41 12/04 23   The chi-squared test     23.29, 23.30, 23.32  
42 12/07 23   The chi-squared test