| MA 117 Introduction to
Probability and Statistics
Block 4, 2001
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Course Outline (subject to minor rescheduling)
| Week One Chapters 19, 1 - 6, 13 and 14. |
Survey Design, Experimental Design (controlled experiments versus observational studies). Measuring the centre and spread of data. Outliers and bias. Probability. |
| Week Two Chapters 16 - 17, and 21- 23. |
Chance variability and the Law of Averages. Box Models and Roulette. Expected Value and the Standard Error. Applications to Sample Surveys. Confidence Intervals and the Central Limit Theorem. |
| Week Three Chapters 26 - 28 and 7 - 10. |
Tests of Significance (Hypothesis Testing). The Chi Squared Test. ANOVA (based on a handout not in the text). The equation of a line, scatter diagrams, and the Correlation Coefficient. Regression. |
| Week Four | RMS error and the regression line. Project Presentations. |