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Introduction to Statistics

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Homework: Chapter 3: 3.2: 5 10 14 23 3.3: 5 7 17 23 33 35 3.4: 4 5 11 13 15 19 21 35 Chapter 4: 4.2: 9 11 13 17-20 29 4.3: 5 9 15 17 33-38 4.4: 17 18 21 27 29 4.5: 9 13 15 23-26 29 4.7: 13 17 33 Chapter 5: 5.2: 5 11 15 21 27 5.3: 7 9 11 25 29 31 37 5.4: 4 9 13 17 19 5.5: 9 13 Review Exercises p 242: 4 7 9 Chapter 6: 6.2: 5 17 21 25 41 47 49 6.3: 15 17 21 25 27 31 33 6.4: 2 6 10 18 6.5: 7 13 15 21 6.6: 3 5 7 19 21 6.7: use STATDISK 9 11 13 15 Chapter 7: 7.2: 29 33 38 41 43 45 7.3: 21 25 27 33 7.4: 5-7 17 21 27 32 Chapter 8: 8.2: 9 11 21-23 33 35 36 39 8.3: 7 9 11 17 23 25 36 8.5: 5-8 14 19 23 29 Chapter 9: 9.2: 1 11 12 17 21 23 31 9.3: 11 12 19 20 29 33 9.4: 3 9 10 11 19 22 Chapter 10: 10.2: 9 19 23 29 10.3: 5 7 9 11 27 29 10.4: 5 9-12 15 19 21 10.5 5-13 Cumulative Review: 1-6 Chapter 11: 11.2: 11 15 17 19 21 25 11.3: 5 6 7 9 19 21 23

Exam 1 Review Sheet Chapter 3: **3.2**: 10 14 23 **3.3**: 7 17 33 **3.4**: 4 5 11 13 29 35 Chapter 4: **4.2**: 17-20 29 **4.3**: 15 17 33-38 **4.4**: 18 21 27 29 **4.5**: 15 23-26 29 **4.7**: 13 17 27 33. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Review Polygraph examples in slides for ch4. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Dependent vs Independent – picking cards example from the slides. Compare cases with and without replacement. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 5: **5.2**: 15 21 27 **5.3**: 25 29 31 37 **5.4**: 13 17 19 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 6: **6.2**: 17 21 25 41 47 **6.3**: 21 25 27 31 **6.4**: 10 18 **6.5**: 13 15 21 **6.6**: 19 21 **6.7**: use STATDISK 13 15

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Exam 2 Review sheet <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 7: **7.2**: 29 37 41 43 **7.3**: 25 27 33 **7.4**: 5-7 17 21 27 32 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 8: **8.2**: 21-23 33 39 **8.3**: 7 11 17 25 **8.5**: 5-8 14 19 23 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 9: **9.2**: 12 15 16 17 **9.3**: 11 12 19 29 31 **9.4**: 9 10 11 14 19 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 10: **10.2**: 9 19 **10.3**: 5 9 27 **10.4**: 5 9-12 15 19 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Chapter 11: **11.2**: 11 15 17 25 **11.3**: 7 19 21 23


 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">TOURO COLLEGE COURSE SYLLABUS **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">DEPARTMENT: Mathematics – Lander College <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE TITLE: Statistics <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE NUMBER: MAT 261 (3 credit hours) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">PREREQUISITES: College Mathematics or a passing grade on the Placement Examination <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">DEVELOPERS: S. Siegel and E. Cohen <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Updated by L. Kaganovskiy <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">LAST UPDATE: 1/30/2011 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE DESCRIPTION: We consider descriptive statistics, discrete and continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics, hypothesis testing (inferences from one and two samples), Correlation and Regression analysis, and Chi-Square Test of Independence and Goodness-of-Fit Test. In addition, technological tools such as R and TI83 will be discussed throughout the semester. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE/DEPARTMENTAL OBJECTIVES: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE/INSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Statistics is a course intended to teach students the essential and basic concepts of statistics. This will enhance students’ understanding of the concepts studied as part of several major departments at the College. The Social Sciences, Business, Psychology and many other disciplines utilize statistics. Students will also appreciate and understand the practical applications of statistics in their career choices. Goals include the fostering of analytical and quantitative thinking, and the ability to solve problems and interpret data.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Organize and summarize statistical data.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Distinguish between discrete and continuous probability distributions.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Students will solve several application problems, using the appropriate distributions.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Utilizing the standard normal distribution and the t-distribution, students will make inferences about population parameters, based upon sample statistics.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discuss essential concepts of Hypothesis Testing
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Utilizing Inferential statistical techniques involving inferences from one and two samples
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Analyzing and exploring the connection and meaning of Correlation and Regression
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Solving Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit and tests of independence and exploring its applications

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 1- Introduction to Statistics <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1-2: Statistical Thinking <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1-3: Types of Data <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1-4: Critical Thinking <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 2 – Summarizing and Graphing Data <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2-2: Frequency Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2-3: Histograms <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2-4: Statistical Graphics <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 3 – Statistics for Describing, Exploring and Comparing Data <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3-2: Measures of Center <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3-3: Measures of Variation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3-4: Measures of Relative Standing <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 4- Probability <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-2: Basic Concepts of Probability <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-3: Addition Rule <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-4: Multiplication Rule-Basics <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-5: Multiplication Rule: Complements and Conditional Probability <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4-7: Counting <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 5 – Discrete Probability Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5-2: Random Variables <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5-3: Binomial Probability Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5-4: Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation for the Binomial Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5-5: The Poisson Probability Distribution <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 6-Normal Probability Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-2: The Standard Normal Distribution <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-3: Applications of Normal Distributions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-4: Sampling Distributions and Estimators <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-5: The Central Limit Theorem <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6-6: Normal as Approximation to Binomial <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 7 – Estimates and Sample Sizes <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">7-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">7-2: Estimating a Population Proportion <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">7-3: Estimating a Population Mean (sigma is known) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">7-4: Estimating a Population Mean (sigma is not known) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 8- Hypothesis Testing <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">8-4: Testing a claim about a mean (sigma is known) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">8-5: Testing a claim about a mean (sigma is not known) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">8-6: Testing a claim about Variation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 9 – Inferences from Two Samples <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9-2: Inferences About Two Proportions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9-3: Inferences About Two Means: Independent Samples <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9-4: Inferences from Dependent Samples <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9-5: Comparing Variation in Two Samples <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 10 – Correlation and Regression <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10-2: Correlation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10-3: Regression <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10-4: Variation and Prediction Intervals <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10-5: Multiple Regression <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 11 – Goodness-of-Fit and Contingency Tables <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">11-1: Review and Preview <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">11-2: Goodness-of-Fit <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">11-3: Contingency Tables

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE REQUIREMENTS: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">to enhance learning and understanding of the course material.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students must attend class on a regular basis.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In class assignments.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Homework assignments (solutions to homework assignments checked and discussed).
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Midterm (or a first exam) and a final examination.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In addition to scientific/graphing calculators, utilizing a computer tool

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">GRADING GUIDELINES: Grades are to be based on the weighted averages of attendance requirements, classwork and homework assignments, and all examination grades.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">METHODOLOGY: Classroom lectures, discussions pertaining to coursework, and assigned homework problems.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">COURSE TEXTBOOK: Elementary Statistics by Mario F. Triola. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Pearson/Addison-Wesley Publishers-11th Edition <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> ISBN-10: 0-321-57082-0 (Annotated Instructor’s Edition) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> ISBN-10: 0-321-50024-5 (Student Edition)