Math 130 Spring 2008 Traditional Class Schedule (Revised 20
December 2007)
with
links to notes.
The due date is the final date for completing the session. The study material and notes are given in the Reading column and the assignments are given in the Activity column. You will want to print copies of this schedule so that you can place one next to your computer and one in your statistics notebook.
You may access the notes and assignments at http://academic.kellogg.edu/secristb/. Click on Statistics Math 130 (Traditional). Then you will see links to both the syllabus and schedule. Now click on schedule and you will see the schedule with links to the class notes. These are actually the notes for the online course, but they still apply.
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Session |
Due Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Activities |
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1 |
Jan16 Wed |
INTRODUCTION AND TERMINOLOGY |
Course Introduction, Getting Started Lesson |
Unit I, "Getting Started" Assignment |
| 2 |
Jan 17 Thu |
NATURE OF PROBABILITY and STATISTICS Learn what statistics is about. |
Chapter 1
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Unit I,
Lesson 1 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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3 |
Jan 23 Wed |
ORGANIZING DATA Organize data with frequency distributions. Using your calculator |
Chapter 2
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Unit I, Lesson 2 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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4 |
Jan 24 Thu |
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY Mean, mode, median, midrange.
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Chapter 3
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Unit I, Lesson 3 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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5 |
Jan 28 Mon |
MEASURES OF VARIATION Range, variance, standard deviation. |
Chapter 3
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Unit I, Lesson 4 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 6 |
Jan 30 Wed |
MEASURES OF POSITION Percentiles, deciles, quartiles. More graphs: stem-leaf plots, box plots |
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Unit I, Lesson 5 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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7 |
Jan 31 Thu |
PROBABILITY Sample spaces, classical & empirical probability. Addition Rules for Probability. Multiplication Rules for Probability. Conditional Probability.
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Chapter 4
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Unit I, Lesson 6 Assignment (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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Feb 6 Wed |
UNIT I TEST Chapters 1 - 4 |
Review all previous material. |
Review Assignment |
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8 |
Feb 11 Mon |
PROBABILITY & BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS Probability distributions. Binomial Distribution |
Chapter 5
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Unit II, Lesson 1 |
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9 |
Feb 18 Mon |
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION Normal distribution. Standard Normal Distribution. |
Chapter 6
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Unit II, Lesson 2 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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10 |
Feb 20 Wed |
PROBABILITIES - NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS Convert to standard normal variable. Percentages associated with standard normal distributions. |
Chapter 6
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Unit II, Lesson 3 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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11 |
Feb 21 Thu |
CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM Solve problems involving sample means for large samples. |
Chapter 6
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Unit II, Lesson 4 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 12 |
Feb 27 Wed |
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR MEAN Confidence Interval for Mean for Large Samples |
Chapter 7
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Unit II, Lesson 5 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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13 |
Feb 28 Thu |
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR MEAN (t-DISTRIBUTION Confidence interval for mean for small samples. t-distribution (student distribution). |
Chapter 7
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Unit II, Lesson 6 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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Mar 5 Wed
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UNIT II TEST over chapters 5 - 7 |
Review |
Unit II, Lesson 7, |
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14 |
Mar10 Mon |
HYPOTHESIS TESTING State null and alternate hypotheses. Critical Values for Z-test. Procedure for hypothesis testing |
Chapter 8
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Unit III, Lesson 1 |
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15 |
Mar12 Wed |
Z-TEST FOR MEAN FOR LARGE SAMPLES Z-test for means of large samples. |
Chapter 8
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Unit III, Lesson 2 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 16 |
Mar 17 Mon |
Z-TEST FOR MEAN FOR LARGE SAMPLES p-value method of hypothesis testing. |
Chapter 8
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Unit III, Lesson 2 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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17 |
Mar 19 Wed |
T-TEST FOR MEAN FOR SMALL SAMPLES Test means for small sample using t-test. |
Chapter 8
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Unit III, Lesson 3 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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18 |
Mar 20 Thu |
TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (LARGE SAMPLES) Test difference between two large sample means, using the Z-test. |
Chapter 9
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Unit III, Lesson 4 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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19 |
Mar 24 Mon |
TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (SMALL INDEPENDENT SAMPLES) Test difference between two means for small independent samples. |
Chapter 9
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Unit III, Lesson 5 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 20 |
Mar 26 Wed |
TEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS (SMALL DEPENDENT SAMPLES) Test difference between two means for small dependent samples. |
Chapter 9
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Unit III, Lesson 6 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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Mar 31 Mon |
UNIT III TEST over Chapter 9 |
Review |
Unit III, Lesson 7, |
| 21 |
Apr 3 Thu |
SCATTER PLOTS, CORRELATION Draw a scatter plot. Compute correlation coefficient. |
Chapter 10
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Unit IV, Lesson 1 |
| 22 |
Apr 14 Mon |
LINEAR REGRESSION Compute the equation of the regression line. |
Chapter 10
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Unit IV, Lesson 2 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 23 |
Apr 17 Thu |
MEASURES OF REGRESSION - PREDICTION INTERVALS Compute coefficient of determination. Compute standard error of estimate. Find prediction interval. |
Chapter 10
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Unit IV, Lesson 3 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 24 |
Apr 21 Mon |
CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION Confidence intervals for variance and standard deviation. |
Chapter 7
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Unit IV, Lesson 4 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
| 25 |
Apr 23 Wed |
MORE CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION Test distribution for "goodness of fit", using chi square. |
Chapter 11
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Unit IV, Lesson 5 (Click and Scroll down the page) |
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Apr 28 Mon |
UNIT IV TEST over Chapter 4. |
Review |
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Apr 30 Wed- May 5 Mon |
REVIEW - FINAL EXAM Review for the final examination, Practice final examination, Final examination. |
All previous material. |