STAT-141 / 141A Intro to Statistics
Basic class information

  • The book for this class will be Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach 10th edition by Allan Bluman.  Earlier editions don't really work for the homework sets.  ISBN:  9781259755330.

Week 1.  August 24 - August 28.    
Day
 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.

Read the rest of chapter 1.

Week 2.  August 31 - September 4.
Day
 Class Covers
 Assignments, etc.
Monday
 Last Day for Add/Drop
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 7 - September 11.    
Day
 Class Covers
 Assignments, etc.
Monday
 No classes.  Labor Day.
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 14 - September 18.
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


Week 5.  September 21 - September 25.    
Day
 Class Covers
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Tuesday
 Test 1.  Covers everything before probability
Thursday


Week 6.  September 28 - October 2.
Day
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Tuesday

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Week 7.  October 5 - October 9.    
Day
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Tuesday

Thursday


Week 8.  October 12 - October 16.
Day
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Monday
 No classes.  Fall break.
Tuesday
 No classes.  Fall break.
Thursday

Friday Mid Grades


Week 9.   October 19 - October 23.    
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Tuesday

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Week 10.  October 26 - October 30.
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Tuesday

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Week 11.  November 2 - November 6.
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Tuesday

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Week 12.  November 9 - November 13.    
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Tuesday

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Week 13.  November 16 - November 20.
Day
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Tuesday

Thursday


Thanksgiving Week.  November 23  - November 27.    
Day
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Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday
 No classes. No classes.
Thursday
 No classes.  Happy Thanksgiving! No classes.
Friday
 No classes. No classes.

Week 14.  November 30 - December 4.
Day
 Class Covers
 Assignments, etc.
Tuesday

Thursday


Week 15. Finals Week.  December 7 - December 11.
See the final exam schedule on the registrar's page. All finals are in the same room as the class.  
Day
 Class Covers
 Assignments, etc.
Monday
 Not finals, but last day of regular classes.
Tuesday
 MATH 101 Math Thinking (both sections) 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
 STAT 141 (classroom sections) 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Wednesday
 STAT 141 (Mixed Remote section 98 )  2:45 PM to 4:45 PM
Thursday

Friday
 STAT 141 (Mixed Remote section 99 )  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM