Schedule
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 411.
| Week # | Topic | Assignments Due | Points | |||
| Week 1 | Introduction to Statistics:the definition of statistics; a population and a sample; descriptive statistics and inferential statistics; types of data and levels of measurement. | n/a | n/a | |||
| Week 2 | Descriptive Statistics:frequency distributions, graphs of frequency distributions; graphing quantitative data sets, graphing qualitative data sets, graphing paired data sets; mean, median, and mode; range, deviation, variance, and standard deviation; empirical rule, Chebychev's Theorem, quartiles, percentiles. | Review Exercises 1 Quiz 1 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 3 | Probability:probability experiments, types of probability, properties of probabilities; conditional probability, independent and dependent events, the Multiplication rule; | Review Exercises 2 Excel Project 1 Excel Project 2 Quiz 2 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 4 | Probability (continued): mutually exclusive events, the Addition rule, a summary of probability | Review Exercises 3 Excel Project 3 Quiz 3 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 5 | Discrete Probability Distributions: random variables,discrete probability distributions; mean, variance, and standard deviation, expected value; binomial experiments, binomial probabilities; summary of discrete probability distributions. | Review Exercises 4 Excel Project 4 Quiz 4 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 6 20/10 10.30 am | Midterm Exam (200 points possible) Remember to bring a calculator! | Review Exercises 5 Excel Project 5 Case Study 1 | Total: 255 | |||
| Week 7 15/10 | Normal Probability Distributions:properties, normal curves; standard normal distribution; applications of normal distributions | Excel Project 6 Quiz 4_2 | ||||
| Week 8 | Normal Probability Distributions (continued):the central limit theorem; normal approximations to binomial distributions Confidence Intervals:confidence interval for the mean (large samples) | Review Exercises 7 Excel Project 7 Quiz 5 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 9 | Confidence Intervals (continued):confidence intervals for the mean (small samples); confidence intervals for population proportions; confidence intervals for variance and standard deviation. | Review Exercises 8 Excel Project 8 Quiz 6 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 10 November 12, 12.30 -15.00 | Cumulative Test(Normal Probability Distributions; Confidence Intervals) ( 100 points possible) Remember to bring a calculator! | Review Exercises 9 Test Excel Project 9 | Total:100 | |||
| Week 11 | Hypothesis Testing with One Sample: introduction; hypothesis testing for the mean (large samples); | |||||
| Week 12 | Hypothesis Testing with One Sample: hypothesis testing for the mean (small samples); hypothesis testing for proportions; hypothesis testing for the variance and standard deviation. | Review Exercises 10 Quiz 7 Excel Project 10 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 13 | Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples: Testing the difference between means ( large samples); testing the difference between means (small samples); testing the difference between means (dependent samples); | Review Exercises 11 Quiz 8 Excel Project 11 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 14 | Correlation and Regression:correlation, linear regression, measures of regression and prediction intervals, multiple regression | Review Exercises 12 Quiz 9 Excel Project 12 | Total: 10 | |||
| Week 15 | Final Exam (200 points) Remember to bring a calculator! | Review Exercises 13 Excel Project 13 Final Exam Case Study 2 | Total :260 | |||
| Week 16 | Presentations | Case Study 3 | 30 points | |||
Total: 745 points
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