Course Schedule
| DATE | TOPIC COVERED | READING | DISC SECTION |
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT# |
4/3/00 |
Asking questions; collecting data | Chapter 1 | Wk 1: Lab 1 | #1: Ch 2: 3,4,6,11; Ch 3: 2,4,6,7,12; DISC 2 |
4/5/00 |
Common elements of research design | Chapter 2 | ||
4/7/00 |
Summarizing data graphically | Chapter 3 | ||
4/10/00 |
Summarizing data numerically | Chapter 4 | Wk 2: Lab 2 | #1
due; #2:Ch 4:1,3,7,10; Ch 5: 4,6,8; Ch 6 SR: 6,15; DISC 4 |
4/12/00 |
Normal distributions | Chapter 5 | ||
4/14/00 |
Measurement error/Chance | Chapter 6, 13 | ||
4/17/00 |
Chance continued | Chapter 14 | Wk 3: Lab 3 | #2
due; #3:Ch 13: 6,7,10,12; Ch 14: 4,6,13; Ch 15: 3,6,8 |
4/19/00 |
Binomial processes/Review | Chapter 15 | Homework #3 is not turned in | |
4/21/00 |
MIDTERM #1 | Bring calculator, student photo ID | ||
4/24/00 |
Repeated trials, expected values, SE | Chapter 16, 17 | Wk 4: Review midterm* | #4: Ch 16: 4,10; Ch 17: 4,8; Ch 18: 5,11; Ch 19: 2,10; DISC 7 |
4/26/00 |
More S.E./Normal approximations | Chapter 18 | ||
4/28/00 |
Sampling | Chapter 19 | ||
5/1/00 |
Sampling error | Chapter 20 | Wk 5: Lab 4 | #4
due; #5: Ch 20: 6,10; Ch 21: 1,4,6; Ch 23: 4,10; Ch 23 SR: 18; DISC 9 |
5/3/00 |
Confidence intervals | Chapter 21 | ||
5/5/00 |
Confidence intervals | Chapter 23 | ||
5/8/00 |
Correlation | Chapter 8 | Wk 6: Prepare for midterm* | #5
due; #6: Ch 8: 5,6,8,9,10; Ch 9: 2,4,7,8,12 |
5/10/00 |
More correlation/Review | Chapter 9 | Homework #6 is not turned in | |
5/12/00 |
MIDTERM #2 | Bring calculator, student photo ID | ||
5/15/00 |
Regression | Chapter 10 | Wk 7: Review Midterm* | #7: Ch 10: 2,4; Ch 11: 3,6,7; Ch 12: 2,7,11 |
5/17/00 |
Regression continued | Chapter 11 | ||
5/19/00 |
Regression continued | Chapter 12 | ||
5/22/00 |
The z-test | Chapter 26 | Wk 8: Lab 5 | #7
due; #8: Ch 26: 2,5,8,12; Ch 27: 3,7,8,10; DISC 12 |
5/24/00 |
The one sample t-test | |||
5/26/00 |
The two sample z-test | Chapter 27 | ||
5/29/98 |
Holiday | |||
5/31/00 |
Chi-square | Chapter 28 | Wk 9: Lab 6 | #8
due; #9: Ch 28: 1,5,6; Ch 29: 4; Ch 29 SR: 5,9,12,19; DISC 14 |
6/2/00 |
More chi-square | |||
6/5/00 |
Drawing conclusions | Chapter 29 | Wk 10: Prepare for final* | #9 due |
6/7/00 |
Recap | |||
6/9/00 |
Review | |||
6/13/00 |
FINAL | Bring calculator, student photo ID |
*Even if you choose not to attend discussion sections regularly, in the past students have found these sections important to doing well in the course.
#Numbers refer to REVIEW EXERCISES, except SR = Special Review EXERCISES SECTION, DISC = Lab Manual questions