Math 121 - Fall 2017

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Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 8/21   1   Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here)  
2 8/23   2   Measures of center     2.25, 2.26  
3 8/25   2   Measures of spread     2.21, 2.23, 2.32, 2.50 (See here)  
4 8/28   3   Normal distributions     3.26, 3.35, 3.36, 3.41, 3.42 (See here)  
5 8/30   3   Normal distributions      
6 9/01   4   Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 9/04   5   Regression     5.28, 5.37  
8 9/06   5   Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56  
9 9/08   6   Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24  
10 9/11   6   Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32  
11 9/13   8   Producing data: sampling     7.18, 8.27, 8.34, 8.39  
12 9/15   8   Bias versus random error      
13 9/18   9   Producing data: experiments     9.29, 9.47 (and review problems)  
14 9/20     Midterm 1      
15 9/22   10   Probability distributions     10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 9/25   10   Continuous distributions     10.49, 10.50, 10.52  
17 9/27   11   Weighted averages     11.24 and these problems  
18 9/29   11   Sampling distributions     11.26, 11.36  
19 10/02   11   Central limit theorem     11.37, 11.38, 11.39  
20 10/04   12   Independence, tree diagrams     12.27, 12.30, 12.31  
21 10/06   12   Conditional probability     12.36, 12.39, 12.48, 12.50, 12.54  
22 10/11   13   Binomial distributions     13.27, 13.38, 13.39  
23 10/13   14   Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24  
24 10/16   14   Confidence intervals     14.25, 14.27  
25 10/18   15   Tests of significance      
26 10/20     Midterm 2     15.28, 15.31, 15.33, 15.36  
27 10/23   16   Thinking about inference     15.40, 15.41, 16.30, 16.31  
28 10/25   18   The t-distribution     18.27, 18.35  
29 10/27   18   Inference about means     18.40, 18.41, 18.45  
30 10/30   18   Matched pairs     18.29, 18.46, 18.47  
31 11/01   19   Two-sample problems     19.26, 19.28  
32 11/03   19   Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50  
33 11/06   20   Inference about proportions     20.25, 20.26, 20.36  
34 11/08   20   Inference about proportions     20.39, 20.41  
35 11/10   21   Comparing two proportions     21.17, 21.19, 21.35  
36 11/13   21   Comparing two proportions     (see the review problems)  
37 11/15     Midterm 3      
38 11/17     Logarithmic scales      
39 11/20     Logarithmic scales     22.48, 22.50, 22.52, 22.57  
40 11/27   23   Chi-squared test     23.29, 23.30, 23.40,  
41 11/29   23   Chi-squared test     23.41, 23.42  
42 12/01     Review