STAT 2000

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Course Information: 

57345 TR 11:10 am – 12:25 pm (Brooks 145

57327 TR 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm (Brooks 145) 

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SPRING 2023 SCHEDULE & COURTESY LECTURE SLIDES:

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1/10-13 Welcome, Ch.1 Basics, Chapter 4.1-2 Overview of Study Types, Sampling, and Bias 

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(End of Add/Drop Period 1/13)

1/16-20 Chapter 4.3 and 4.4: Experimental Studies 

1/19 Chapter 2.1: Different Types of Data (Time Permitting)

1/24 Chapter 2.2: Graphical Summaries PDF 

1/26 Chapter 2.3 Measuring the Center of Quantitative Data and 2.4 Measuring the Variability of Quantitative Data (PPT

1/31 Chapter 2.5 Measures of Position (PPT): Empirical rule, first outlier check

2/2 2.5: Second outlier check, drawing boxplots with and without the presence of outliers

2/7 Complete 2.5: Z-scores, Third outlier check, the Standard normal distribution (Final content on Test 1)

This is the conclusion of Test 1: Module 1 & 2 material. This covers Chapters 1, 2, and 4 in your textbook.

2/9 Untimed practice exam 1 discussion

2/9 Time permitting: Chapter 5 Computing Basic Probability (This material is not on Test 1) Activate your StatCrunch subscription before Tuesday

2/14 5.2 Probability of Compound Events  (PDF) Addition and basics of the Multiplication rule. 5.3 Conditional Probability NO OFFICE HOURS TODAY

2/16 Complete  &  6.1 and 6.2 Probability Distributions (PDF), StatCrunch tutorial and examples. (The remaining slides after the introduction to StatCrunch are for additional explanation). 

Stat crunch examples, Quiz Review of probability (Module 3: Chapters 5 and 6) 

2/21 Chapter 7 Introduction to Sampling Distributions: Proportions (Module 4 in eLC) Time permitting: Quiz review

2/23 Sampling Distributions for Proportions practice 

2/28 Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions: Means (PDF),  Sampling distributions for means practice

3/2 Module 5: Hypothesis Testing (PDF)  Student-T Distributions and Standardized Statistics in brief (Slides 1-12 only) Time permitting: Practice

SPRING BREAK

3/14 Nested Probability, Decision Making with Probability, Hypothesis Testing Introduction (Test 3 material, not on exam)

This is the conclusion of Test 2: Modules 3 & 4 material. This covers Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in your textbook.

3/16 Test 2 Review: Untimed Practice & Module 5: Hypothesis Testing (PDF)  Hypothesis Testing (slides 13-35) Practice Solution 

3/21 Hypothesis testing for proportions and means with standardization, One-tailed (left/right) vs two-tailed hypothesis tests (Slides 36-47)

3/23 Type I and Type II errors, adjusting alpha

3/28 Chapter 8: Confidence Intervals (Module 6 in eLC. Slides 1-11), Checking conditions for constructing confidence intervals, Time permitting: Connecting hypothesis tests to confidence intervals (Slides 14-15)

3/30 Calculating necessary sample size for proportions & means (Review slides 9-10, go over slides 12-13) Homework 6

End of Test 3 Material 


FALL 2022 SCHEDULE & COURTESY LECTURE SLIDES:

11/7 Introduction to Module 7, Chapter 10: Two Sample Tests. We will discuss the relationship between the new module and the Test 3 content. This new material, however, will not be on Test 3.

11/9 Test 3 Review Practice

11/11 Test 3 Review Practice (11:30 am class only) Extended Zoom Office Hours 6-7 pm 

11/11-11/13 Test 3

11/14 Module 7: Introduction to Paired-t test and Two Sample Tests Review. Practice with a focus on verifying conditions (Note: Please pay special attention to the differences in conditions for these tests when compared to one sample tests)

11/16 Confidence intervals for two samples

11/18 Chapter 11 Chi-square distribution and the Chi-Square Goodness of Fit  (Video)

11/21 Begin Module 8: Chapter 11 Chi-Square Test of Independence

11/23-25 Thanksgiving Break (No class)

11/28 Which Chi-Square test is appropriate? (Video Passcode: 8c9&^b^E Practice)

11/30 Chapter 3 Position & Scatter Plots, Correlation

12/2 Regression Homework 8

12/5 Exam 4 Review Untimed Practice

12/6 Exam 4 Review Untimed Practice

See syllabus for final exam dates.


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