| MA 117 Probability and Statistics Math - Block 4 - 2001 |
| WEEK ONE - | DETAILED SCHEDULE AND HOMEWORK |
| Monday | |
| Topics: | Introduction. Experimental Design. Chapter Nineteen: Predicting Election Results; the Gallup Poll. Chapter One: Controlled Experiments. Chapter Two: Observational Studies. |
| To Prepare: | Reading from chapter 1 and 2. |
| Tuesday | |
| Topics: | Controlled Experiments - the Salk Vaccine Field Trial. Chapter Three: The Histogram - construction and interpretation. Chapter Four: The average and standard deviation as measurements of the centre and spread of a data set. |
| To Prepare: | Reading from chapter 19, 3 and 4. |
| Poliomyelitis Handout | Turn in your written answers to questions 2, 6, 7, and 9 at the end of the handout on Tuesday. |
| Quiz One: | Topic: Controlled Experiments. Surveys. Parameters and Statistics. Turn this quiz in by 3:00 p.m. to my office, Palmer 134. Slide it under the door if it is closed. |
| Wednesday | |
| Topics: | More on the standard deviation. Other measurements of centre and spread. Chapter Five: Approximating data using the ‘standard normal approximation’. Using tables to estimate area under the normal curve. The effect of changes of scale. Chapter Six: Outliers and Bias; Measurement Error. |
| To Prepare: | Reading from chapter 5 and 6. |
| Quiz Two: | Topic: Histograms. Mean and Standard Deviation. Turn this quiz in by 3:00 p.m. to my office, Palmer 134. Slide it under the door if it is closed. |
| Homework One: | Homework One will be due today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m. in the Green Drop boxes beside Palmer 130. |
| Thursday | |
| Topics: | More on outliers and bias. Chapter Thirteen: Probability: Conditional Probability. The multiplication rule. Independence. |
| To Prepare: | Reading from chapter 13. |
| Lab One: | Afternoon Lab: An introduction to using SPSS |
| Friday |
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| Topics: | Chapter Fourteen: The addition rule. Chevalier du Mere’s Paradox. When do you multiply and when do you add and when do you do neither? |
| To Prepare: | Reading from chapter 14. | Homework Two: |
| Homework Two is due at 5 p.m. | |
| Quiz Three: | Topic: Using the normal curve to estimate proportions in a histogram when appropriate. Turn this quiz in by 3:00 p.m. to my office, Palmer 134. Slide it under the door if it is closed. |