Math 130 Summer 2009 Online Class Schedule

Bob Secrist

Statistics - Math 130 Summer 2009 Online Class Schedule
with links to notes and assignments.

The due date is the final date for completing the session. The session does end approximately 11:00 P.M. each evening. The study material and notes are given in the Reading column and the assignments are given in the Activity column. You will want to two print copies of this schedule and place one next to your computer and one in your statistics notebook.

You may access the notes and assignments at "Course Documents" in the Blackboard Course.

Session	Due Date	Topic	Reading	Activities To be completed by the due date
1	Tue May 19	INTRODUCTION Learn how to use Blackboard for this course.	Course Introduction, Getting Started Lesson Syllabus Departmental Outline Session 1 notes	Session 1 Assignment
2	Thur May 21	NATURE OF PROBABILITY and STATISTICS Learn what statistics is about.	Chapter 1 Chapter 1, pages 2-23. Session 2 notes	Unit I, Session 2 Assignment
3	Sat May 23	ORGANIZING DATA Organize data with frequency distributions. Histograms, box-whisker graphs, frequency graphs. Using your calculator	Chapter 2, Sec 2-1, pages 36-42 Sec 2-2, pages 51-64 Session 3 notes.	Unit I, Session 3 Assignment
4	Tue May 26	MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY Mean, mode, median, midrange.	Chapter 3, Sec 3-1, pages 104-116, Session 4 notes.	Unit I, Session 4 Assignment
5	Thur May 28	MEASURES OF VARIATION, POSITION Range, variance, standard deviation.	Chapter 3, Sec 3-2, pages 123-136 Session 5 notes.	Unit I, Session 5 Assignment
6	Sat May 30	MEASURES OF POSITION Percentiles, deciles, quartiles\| More graphs: stem-leaf plots, box plots	Chapter 3, Sec 3-3, pages 142-153. Sec 2-3, pages 80-83 Sec 3-4, pages 162-170 Session 6 notes.	Unit I, Session 6 Assignment
7	Tue Jun 2	PROBABILITY Sample spaces, classical & empirical probability. Addition Rules for Probability. Multiplication Rules for Probability. Conditional Probability.	Chapter 4, Sec 4-1, page 1182-193, Sec 4-2, pages 199-203, Sec 4.3, pages 211-219, Sec 4.4, pages 224-232 Session 7 notes.	Unit I, Session 7 Assignment
	Sat Jun 6	UNIT I TEST Chapters 1 - 4	Review
8	Tue Jun 9	PROBABILITY & BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS Probability distributions. Binomial Distribution	Chapter 5, Sec 5-1, pages 252-257 Sec 5-2, pages 253-264 Sec 5-3, pages 270-276, Session 8 notes.	Unit II, Session 8 Assignment
9	Thur Jun 11	NORMAL DISTRIBUTION Normal distribution. Standard Normal Distribution.	Chapter 6, Sec 6-1, pages 300-311 Session 9 notes.	Unit II, Session 9 Assignment
10	Sun Jun 14	PROBABILITIES - NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS Convert to standard normal variable. Percentages associated with standard normal distributions.	Chapter 6, Sec 6-2, pages 316-324. Session 10 notes.	Unit II, Session 10 Assignment
11	Tue Jun 16	CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM Solve problems involving sample means for large samples.	Chapter 6, Sec 6-3, pages 331-337. Session 11 notes.	Unit II, Session 11 Assignment
12	Thur Jun 18	CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR MEAN Confidence Interval for Mean for Large Samples	Chapter 7, Sec 7-1, pages 356-365 Session 12 notes.	Unit II, Session 12 Assignment
13	Sun Jun 21	CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR MEAN (t-DISTRIBUTION Confidence interval for mean for small samples. t-distribution (student distribution).	Chapter 7, Sec 7.2, pages 370-373. Session 13 notes.	Unit II, Session 13 Assignment
	Thur Jun 25	UNIT II TEST over Chapters 5 - 7 (Proctored Test)	Review
14	Sun Jun 28	HYPOTHESIS TESTING State null and alternate hypotheses. Critical Values for Z-test. Procedure for hypothesis testing	Chapter 8, Sec 8.1, pages 405-441. Session 14 notes.	Unit III, Session 14 Assignment
15	Tue Jun 30	Z-TEST FOR MEAN FOR LARGE SAMPLES Classical method of hypothesis testing.	Chapter 8, Sec 8.2, pages 413-418. Session 15 notes.	Unit III, Session 15 Assignment
16	Thur Jul 2	P-VALUE METHOD FOR MEAN FOR LARGE SAMPLES p-value method of hypothesis testing.	Chapter 8, Sec 8.2, pages 418-422. Session 16 notes.	Unit III, Session 16 Assignment
17	Sun Jul 5	T-TEST FOR MEAN FOR SMALL SAMPLES Test means for small sample using t-test.	Chapter 8, Sec 8.3, pages 427-433. Session 17 notes.	Unit III, Session 17 Assignment
18	Tue Jul 7	TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (LARGE SAMPLES) Test difference between two large sample means, using the Z-test.	Chapter 9, Sec 9.1, pages 472-471. Session 18 notes.	Unit III, Session 18 assignment
19	Fri Jul 10	TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (SMALL INDEPENDENT SAMPLES) Test difference between two means for small independent samples.	Chapter 9, Sec 9.2, pages 484-487. Session 19 notes.	Session 19 assignment
20	Mon Jul 13	TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (SMALL DEPENDENT SAMPLES) Test difference between two means for small dependent samples.	Chapter 9, Sec 9.3, pages 491-499. Session 20 notes.	Session 20 assignment
	Thur Jul 16	UNIT III TEST over Chapter 8 - 9	Review
21	Sun Jul 19	SCATTER PLOTS, CORRELATION Draw a scatter plot. Compute correlation coefficient.	Chapter 10, Sec 10.1, pages 534-547 Session 21 notes.	Session 21 assignment
22	Tue Jul 21	LINEAR REGRESSION Compute the equation of the regression line.	Chapter 10, Sec 10.2, pages 551-558 Session 22 notes.	Session 22 assignment
23	Fri Jul 24	MEASURES OF REGRESSION - PREDICTION INTERVALS Compute coefficient of determination. Compute standard error of estimate. Find prediction interval.	Chapter 10, Sec 10.2, pages 565-571 Session 23 notes.	Session 23 assignment
24	Open	CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION Confidence intervals for variance and standard deviation.	Chapter 7, Sec 7.4, pages 385-390 Session 24 notes.	Session 24 assignment
25	Open	MORE CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION Test distribution for "goodness of fit", using chi square distribution..	Chapter 11, Sec 11.1, pages 590-596 Session 25 notes.	Session 25 assignment
	Sun Jul 26	UNIT IV TEST over Chapter 4.	Review
	Tue Jul 28	WRITING REQUIREMENT / EVALUATION		See Course Documents in the Blackboard Course
	Thur Jul 30	REVIEW - FINAL EXAM (Proctored Test) Review for the final examination, Practice final examination, Final examination.	Review. All previous material.