STAT-141 Intro to Statistics with Recitation

  • 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 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.  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.



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.
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
Review for test 2.


Friday Midterm Grades



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

Thursday
Test 2.  Covers chapters 4 and 5.



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

Tuesday
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.
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