Math 121 - Fall 2016

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Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 8/24   1   Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here)   
2 8/26   2   Measures of center     2.25, 2.26 (See here)  
3 8/29   2   Measures of spread     2.21, 2.23, 2.32, 2.44, 2.50 (See here)  
4 8/31   3   Normal distributions     3.27, 3.46 (see here)  
5 9/02   3   Normal distributions     3.35, 3.36, 3.41, 3.42  
6 9/05   4   Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 9/07   5   Regression     5.28, 5.37  
8 9/09   5   Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56  
9 9/12   6   Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24  
10 9/14   6   Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32  
11 9/16   8   Producing data: sampling     8.27, 8.34, 8.39  
12 9/19   8   Bias versus random error     9.29, 9.47 (and review problems)  
13 9/21   9   Producing data: experiments      
14 9/23     Midterm 1      
15 9/26   10   Probability distributions     10.31, 10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 9/28   10   Continuous distributions     10.49, 10.50, 10.51, 10.52  
17 9/30   11   Weighted averages     11.24 and these problems  
18 10/03   11   Law of large numbers     11.26, 11.36  
19 10/05   11   Sampling distributions     11.37, 11.38, 11.39  
20 10/07   11   Central limit theorem     11.27, 11.31  
21 10/10   12   Independence, tree diagrams     12.27, 12.30, 12.31, 12.54  
22 10/12   12   Conditional probability     12.48, 12.50  
23 10/14   13   Binomial distributions     13.38, 13.39  
24 10/19   13   Binomial distributions     review problems  
25 10/21     Midterm 2      
26 10/24   14   Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.26, 14.27  
27 10/26   15   Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.33, 15.36, 15.40  
28 10/28   16   Thinking about inference     16.30, 16.31, 16.34  
29 10/31   18   The t-distribution     18.27, 18.29, 18.35  
30 11/02   18   Inference about means     18.40, 18.41, 18.45, 18.46, 18.47  
31 11/04   18   Matched pairs      
32 11/07   19   Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50  
33 11/09   19   Two-sample problems     19.25, 19.26, 19.28  
34 11/11   20   Inference about proportions     20.26, 20.36, 20.40, 20.41, 20.42  
35 11/14   20   Inference about proportions     20.25  
36 11/16   21   Comparing two proportions     21.18, 21.20, 21.34  
37 11/18   21   Comparing two proportions      
38 11/21     Midterm 3      
39 11/28   16   Type I and II errors     16.48, 16.49, 16.50, 16.52  
40 11/30   16   Statistical power     16.44, 16.45, 16.46  
41 12/02     Logarithmic scales      
42 12/05     Benford's law