Stats 110A
Outline

This is a tentative outline of the topics we will cover and the order in which we will cover them. You must come to class to keep informed of any changes in this outline.

Week Topic Reading
1 Introduction none
Graphical Summaries 2.1, 2.2
Numerical Summaries 2.3-2.8

2 Polls, Censuses, and Surveys 3.1,3.2
Controlled Studies 3.3, 3.4
Obesrvational Studies and Causality 3.5

3 Models of Populations 4.1,4.2
Discrete Random Variables 4.3, 4.4
Means and SDs
Useful distributions

4 Continuous Random Variables 4.5
Means and SDs
Useful Distributions
The Normal Distribution

5 Central Limit theorem 4.6
Using Data to check distributional assumptions 4.7
Transformations to normality 4.8

Midterm Friday, May 3

6 Models of Inference 5.1-5.3
Estimates of the mean 5.4
Sampling Distributions for estimates of the mean 5.4

7 Confidence intervals for the mean 5.4
Prediction Intervals 5.5

8 Estimating Proporations 5.6
Hypothesis Testing 6.1-6.4
Tests for the mean 6.6

9 Comparing Two means 6.8
Related Issues 6.5, 6.11

10 Correlation, Simple Regression 7.1-7.3