| 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 | |
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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 |
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| 31. Wednesday | Final Exam | 8am to 11am |