| STAT-141
Intro to Statistics with Recitation |
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| Week 1. August 25 - August 29.
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Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
The syllabus and my
expectations. What is statistics? |
Get the book, read section 1-1 and 1-2. |
| Thursday |
Sections 1-1 and 1-2:
Variables and the beginnings of sampling. Outline. My chapter 1 notes. |
1-1 problems 1-15 only the
odds on page 5. 1-2 problems 1-15 only the odds on page 10. |
| Week 2. September 1 - September
5. |
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| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Monday |
No classes. Labor Day. | |
| Tuesday |
Section 1-3. Sampling
techniques and experiments. Section 1-4. Experiments. Outline. |
1-3 problems 7-15 only the
odds on page 17. 1-4 problems 1, 3, 7, 9, 11,15, 17, 23, 25 starting on page 24. |
| Thursday |
Chapter 2 -- graphs and
histograms. My examples. Common charts: Wiki |
2.2 (page 65): 1, 3 is a
good idea, 5, and 20 (Answers to #20 are 0, 14, 10, 16). 2.3 (page 90): 5, 17. There's a quiz on D2L. Quiz 1. Take it soon. |
| Week 3. September 8 - September 12. | ||
| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
3-1: Measures of
central tendency. My notes on chapter 2 and 3 for
the online students Weighted means. GPA example. We'll start into 3-2. |
3-1 (page122): 3, 5, 7
(skip the midrange for those), 25, 27, 28 (answer is 82.67),
29. The chapter 2 quiz is on D2L. Quiz 2. Take it soon. |
| Thursday |
3-2: Measures of
variation -- variance, SD, range. The empirical rule,
Chebychev's theorem. We'll start into 3-3. |
3.2 (page143): 1, 3, 4, 7,
9, 11. Be sure to be able to compute the SD and variance by
hand, but don’t perform calculations without a calculator/computer. 3.2 (page145): 29, 31, 35, 41 |
| Week 4. September 15 - September 19. |
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| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
3-3: Measures of
position. Z scores, percentiles, quantiles,
deciles, Quintiles
example. Z-score example. Some
mixed
problems. 3-4: 5 number summaries and boxplots. |
3-3 (page159): 1- 7 all. 9
– 15 odd. 3-4 (page172): 1-13 odd There are two quizzes for chapter 3 on D2L. Quiz 3 and Quiz 4. Take them soon. |
| Thursday |
We'll start into
probability. Bring any questions you have for test 1. |
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| Week 5. September 22 - September 26. | ||
| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
Test
1. Covers everything before probability |
Test 1. Covers everything before probability |
| Thursday |
4-1: Intro to
probability: nomenclature and basic probability.
Some examples. 4-2: the addition rule. More examples. Here's my chapter 4 notes. |
4-1: 1-10 all, 13, 15, 17,
21, 23, 27, 31, 33. 4-2: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 17, 23. |
| Week 6. September 29 - October 3. |
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| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
4-3: Conditional
probability and independence. Here's some problems for class. |
4-3: 1, 5, 11, 15, 21, 25,
29, 31, 33, 35. Here are some additional probability problems and the solutions. Here's a not-too-evil set of exercises on conditional probability with the answers. There are three quizzes for chapter 4 on D2L. Quizzes 5, 6, and 7. Take them after Thursday. Unless you're really ready. |
| Thursday |
Quick review. 5-1: Discrete random variables. My chapter 5 notes. 5-2: Expectation of random variables. |
5-1: 1-6 you should know
except the baseball thing. 7-17 odd, 21, 23, 29. 5-2: 1, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 |
| Week 7. October 6 - October 10. | ||
| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
5-3: Binomial random variables. Some examples for class. | 5-3: 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 17,
21. Quiz 9 is the last one before test 2. It's ready on D2L. |
| Thursday |
Finish up 5-3, start
chapter 6. |
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| Friday Midterm
Grades |
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| Week 8. October 13 - October 17. |
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| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
No classes. Fall
break. |
No classes. Fall break. |
| Thursday |
Review for test 2. Cooties Continuous random variables. |
Read chapter 6. |
| Week 9. October 20 - October 24. | ||
| Day |
Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Monday (Reg) | ||
| Tuesday |
Test
2. Covers chapters 4 and 5. |
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| Thursday |
6-1: Introduction to
the normal curve. Notice the Z and T table at the top,
btw. 6-2: "Non-standard" normal curves. Examples Something cool. |
6-1: 1-5 odd. 7-25 odd (Do
3 of them.) 27-40 odd. (Do 3 of them.) 41-49 odd. 6-2: 3, 5, 9, 11, any of the odds from 13 to 29 are pretty good. Definitely do 31 and 33. |
| Week 10. October 27 - October 31. |
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Class
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etc. |
| Tuesday |
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| Thursday |
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| Week 11. November 3 - November 7. |
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| Week 12. November 10 - November 10.
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| Thursday |
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| Week 13. November 17 -
November 21. |
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Class
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Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
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| Thursday |
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| Thanksgiving Week. November 24 - November 28. | ||
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Class
Covers |
Assignments,
etc. |
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
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| Wednesday |
No classes. | No classes. |
| Thursday |
No classes. Happy Thanksgiving! | No classes. |
| Friday |
No classes. | No classes. |
| Week 14. December 1 - December 5. |
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Class
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Assignments,
etc. |
| Tuesday |
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| Thursday |
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| Week 15. Finals Week. December 8 - December 12. See the final exam schedule on the registrar's page. All finals are in the same room as the class. |
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Final
Exam |
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
Stats final time
slot: December 9, 2025 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM |
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