Math 121 - Spring 2017

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Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 1/18   1   Graphing data     1.23, 1.26, 1.35 (See here)  
2 1/20   2   Measures of center     2.25, 2.26 (See here)  
3 1/23   2   Measures of spread     2.21, 2.23, 2.32, 2.44, 2.50 (See here)  
4 1/25   3   Normal distributions     3.27, 3.46 (see here)  
5 1/27   3   Normal distributions     3.35, 3.36, 3.41, 3.42  
6 1/30   4   Scatterplots & correlation     4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.34, 4.38  
7 2/01   5   Regression     5.28, 5.37  
8 2/03   5   Regression     5.32, 5.34, 5.56  
9 2/06   6   Two-way tables     6.18, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24  
10 2/08   6   Simpson's paradox     6.25, 6.32  
11 2/10   8   Producing data: sampling     8.27, 8.34, 8.39  
12 2/13   8   Bias versus random error     9.29, 9.47 (and review problems)  
13 2/15   9   Producing data: experiments      
14 2/17     Midterm 1      
15 2/20   10   Probability distributions     10.31, 10.36, 10.38, 10.40, 10.48  
16 2/22   10   Continuous distributions     10.49, 10.50, 10.51, 10.52  
17 2/24   11   Weighted averages     11.24 and these problems  
18 2/27   11   Law of large numbers     11.26, 11.36  
19 3/01   11   Sampling distributions     11.37, 11.38, 11.39  
20 3/03   12   Independence, tree diagrams    12.27, 12.30, 12.31, 12.54  
21 3/06   12   Conditional probability     12.36, 12.39, 12.48, 12.50  
22 3/08   13   Binomial distributions     13.38, 13.39  
23 3/10   14   Confidence intervals     14.19, 14.21, 14.24, 14.26, 14.27  
24 3/20   14   Confidence intervals     review problems  
25 3/22     Review      
26 3/24     Midterm 2      
27 3/27   15   Tests of significance     15.28, 15.31, 15.33, 15.36, 15.40  
28 3/29   16   Thinking about inference     16.30, 16.31, 16.34  
29 3/31   18   The t-distribution     18.27, 18.29, 18.35  
30 4/03   18   Inference about means     18.40, 18.41, 18.45, 18.46, 18.47  
31 4/05   18   Matched pairs      
32 4/07   19   Two-sample problems     19.32, 19.33, 19.34, 19.48, 19.50  
33 4/10   19   Two-sample problems     19.25, 19.26, 19.28  
34 4/12   20   Inference about proportions      
35 4/14   20   Inference about proportions     20.25, 20.26, 20.36, 20.39, 20.41  
36 4/17   21   Comparing two proportions     21.17, 21.19, 21.35  
37 4/19   21   Comparing two proportions      
38 4/21     Midterm 3     22.48, 22.50, 22.52, 22.54, 22.57  
39 4/24   23   Chi-squared test     23.29, 23.30, 23.40, 23.41, 23.42  
40 4/26   23   Chi-squared test      
41 4/28     Logarithmic scales      
42 5/01     Benford's law