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Text:  Prentice Hall Pilot Materials for UCLA Stat 154A & B
 

Topic	Reading
Types of Studies (The art of comparisons)	3.1-3.4
Summarizing and Exploring data  Types of variables, measures of central tendency and dispersion, graphical techniques, covariance, correlation	4.1,4.2,4.3,4.3.1,4.3.2,4.3.4,4.4.2
Probability: basic terminology	2.1:2.1.1,2.1.2
Conditional Probability and Independence	2.2:2.2.1,2.2.2
Bayes Theorem	2.2:2.2.3
Random Variables	2.3:2.3.1,2.3.2
Expected Values, Variance	2.4:2.4.1,2.4.2
Favorite Discrete Distributions: Bernoulli	2.7.1
Binomial	2.7.2
Poisson	2.7.4
Favorite Continuous Distributions: Uniform	2.8.3
Exponential	2.8.1
Normal	2.9:2.9.1,2.9.2
Sampling Distributions of sample means and the Central Limit Theorem	5.1:5.1.1,5.1.2,5.1.3
Inference: estimating parameters, properties of estimators	6.1:6.1.1
Confidence intervals	6.2
Hypothesis Testing framework	6.3 but not 6.3.6
Inference for single samples	7.1, 7.2
Inference for two samples:	8.1,8.2,8.3: 8.3.1