Math 243 Winter 2006

Introduction to Statistics

Instructor: Professor Sadofsky
Office: Deady 101, x6-5619
Email: sadofsky@uoregon.edu
Office hours: MW 11-12.
Homework: due weekly on Fridays to Mr. Smith. Bring to his office (a collection envelope is at his door, and you need to put it in the right compartment for your section by 2:30 on Friday.
Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics, David S. Moore, 3rd edition.

Handouts and useful links

Syllabus
How to do some basic statistics on the TI-83.
How to do some basic statistics on Excel.
Professor Shao's handout on using various calculators for statistics.
Professor Phillips Math 243 web page.
The textbook has its own website. You can print out tables and such from the textbook using the website from the previous edition.
Random numbers for free! This form allows you to collect a specific number of random integers in a range you get to specify.
Random Haiku. Example:
Refrigerate nuns
lurid flash-freeze drizzle slack
Afterschool special.
(Warning: they aren't all this good.)
Practice Midterm 1 and Solutions
Practice Midterm 2 and Solutions
Practice Final. Solutions will be posted before Friday's class: Solutions.
Midterm 1 score distribution, solutions and solution to problems 6a,b
Midterm 2 score distribution, solutions
Final exam answers.

Assignments and Lectures

Here are some homework and reading assignments.

Week of 1/9: Read Chapter 1, 2 and 3.
- 1.12, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.21, 1.29. Due 1/13.
- Histograms etc. about population density of US states. Note the incorrect and confusing horizontal labeling on the Excel generated histograms.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  2.18, 2.19, 2.23, 2.29. Due 1/13
- Friday Lecture Notes
  2.26, 2.27, 3.14-3.18, 3.20, 3.24, 3.25 plus this. Due 1/20.
Week of 1/16.
- MLK day.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  3.27. Due 1/20.
- Friday Lecture Notes
  4.15, 4.16, 4.25, 4.28, I.31, I.32 plus this. Due 1/27.
Week of 1/23.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  5.15, 5.16, 5.18, 5.20. 5.28, 5.32, 5.34. Due 1/27.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  7.16, 7.18, 7.22, 7.23, 7.38. Due 1/27
- Friday Lecture Notes
  8.16, 8.18, 8.22, 8.23, 8.28, 8.30, 9.24, 9.29. Due 2/3.
Week of 1/30.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  7.26, 7.33, 7.34, 8.34, 8.37, 9.30, 9.32, 9.33 Due 2/3.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  9.36, 9.37, 9.40, 9.42. Due 2/10.
- MIDTERM 2/3.
Week of 2/6.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  9.41, 9.43, 9.45, 9.46, 9.48, 10.16, 10.17, 10.21 , 10.22, 10.23Due 2/10.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  10.31, 10.34 Due 2/10.
- Friday Lecture Notes
  13.1, 13.2, 13.4, 13.5, 13.15, 13.18, 13.21 Due 2/17.
Week of 2/13.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  2/13: 13.20, 13.23, 13.24, 13.29, 14.2, 14.6 Due 2/17.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  13.25-13.27, 14.7-8. Due 2/24.
- Friday Lecture Notes
  14.11, 14.12, 14.14, 14.15, 14.21, 14.26, 14.27, 14.29 plus this. Due 2/24.
Week of 2/20.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  14: 34, 35, 37. 15: 18-20 Due 2/24.
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  15: 26, 27, 29. Due 3/3.
- Friday Lecture Notes
  15.10-11, 16.1-5, 16.8-9, 16.17, 18, 20 plus this. Due 3/3.
Week of 2/27.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  16.21-22, 31. Due 3/3
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  16.26, 27. Due 3/10.
  16.19, 28, 37, 17.23, 17.24, 17.28. Due 3/10.
- Midterm 2: 3/3
Week of 3/6.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  16.19. 26-28, 37. 17.5, 6, 11, 14, 16, 23, 24, 28 plus this excel assignment. Due 3/10
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
  17.41-43 Due 3/10.
- Friday Lecture Notes
  18:1-4, 14, 15, 18, 19, 24, 35, 36
  19: 8, 9, 12, 15
  plus this excel assignment. Due 3/17.
Week of 3/13.
- Monday Lecture Notes
  19: 20a, 21
- Wednesday Lecture Notes
- Friday Lecture Notes

Help

If you have a question, send email: sadofsky@uoregon.edu , or come see me.

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