Outline for Stats 51b (also Econ 40 and Stats 11)
(The on-line version includes links to more detailed information.)
 The textbook is Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed.


Lecture 1 Topic Chapter Pages Homework Comments
1. Friday Introduction Introduction xxv-xxvii  Read Homepage  Important  Concept
2. Monday Collecting Data 3 231-234, 241-243,257  p. 281: 65,66,78,79,80b  Controlled vs. Observationsl
3. Wednesday Displaying Data 1.1 4-23  p.23: 1,12,15,19,21 
P.23 and P.281 due Oct. 8
 Variation
4. Friday Graphical displays  & 
Numerical Descriptions
1.2 40-43 Due today:
HW1, Lab1
Due Next Friday!! p. 58: 41,42,49,51,53
 Histogram Demo with Old Faithful Data
5. Monday More numerical descriptions 1.2 44-55    Skewed Distributions
6. Wednesday Describing linear relations 2.2 126-131    Correlation Demos and Cause and Effect
7.Friday Least-squares regression 2.3 135-142  Due:  HW2,  Lab 2  
8. Monday
More LS 2.3,2.4 142-147,153-163    
9. Wednesday Correlation and Causation 2.4,2.7 166-169,207-210    
10.Friday Review      Due: HW3, Lab 3  
11. Monday Midterm        
12. Wednesday "Describing" Populations 4.1, 4.2 288-305    
13. Friday Probability 4.2 295-305  Due: HW 4  Let's Make a Deal Demo
14. Monday Random Variables 4.3 312-321    
15. Wednesday Normal Distribution 1.3 66-76    
16. Friday Other Distributions 4.3 312-322  Due:  HW5, Lab 4  
17. Monday Means and estimates of means 4.4 326-335    
18. Wednesday Variances of random variables 4.4 335-339    
19. Friday Standard Units 4.3 312-322  Due: Hw6, Lab5  
20. Monday Means and Variances 4.4 335-339    
21. Wednesday Estimating means 5.2 397-405    
22. Friday Confidence Intervals 6.1 432-447  Due: HW7, Lab 6  
23.Monday Review        Sample Questions
24. Wednesday Midterm II        
25. Friday  Thanksgiving        
26. Monday More CI's 6.1 432-447    
27. Wednesday Intro to Hypothesis testing 6.2 453-460    
28. Friday z-tests and caution 16.2,6.3 460-479 Due: Lab 7  
29. Monday t-tests 7.1 502-517    
30. Wednesday Summary  Due HW 8  Sample questions
Last Quiz http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rgould/51f98/lastquizsoln 
Corrections to Lecture
31. Wednesday Final Exam       8am to 11am