STAT-141 Intro to Statistics with Recitation

Trouble accessing Brightspace (D2L), your email, or any part of the campus network?  Follow this link to the help desk. 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. Here is the syllabus for this class. Normal and t tables.

Week 1.  August 25 - August 29.
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.

Week 2.  September 1 - September 5.
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
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.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday	3-3:  Measures of position.  Z scores, percentiles, quantiles, deciles,  Quintiles example.  Z-score example. 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.

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

Week 6.  September 29 - October 3.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

Week 7.  October 6 - October 10.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday Midterm Grades

Week 8.  October 13 - October 17.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday	No classes.  Fall break.
Thursday

Week 9.   October 20 - October 24.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Monday (Reg)
Tuesday
Thursday

Week 10.  October 27 - October 31.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

Week 11.  November 3 - November 7.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

Week 12.  November 10 - November 10.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

Week 13.  November 17 - November 21.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

Thanksgiving Week.  November 24  - November 28.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	No classes.	No classes.
Thursday	No classes.  Happy Thanksgiving!	No classes.
Friday	No classes.	No classes.

Week 14.  December 1 - December 5.
Day	Class Covers	Assignments, etc.
Tuesday
Thursday

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.
Day	Final Exam
Monday
Tuesday	Stats final time slot:  December 9, 2025 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday