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Mathematics 241 - Spring 2016

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January
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11
Homework
Beginning with R
12 13
Chapters 1 and 2
Homework
Design of Experiments
14 15
Section 3.1
Homework
Histograms
18
Martin Luther King Day
19 20
Sections 3.2 - 3.3
Homework
More with Histograms
Assignment # 1
21 22
Snow day
25
Sections 3.4 - 3.7
Homework
Variables and the Shapes of Distributions
26 27
Chapter 4
Homework
Numerical Summaries of Data
Assignment # 2
guinea-pigs-low.txt
guinea-pigs-high.txt
28
Office hour:
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
29
Sections 5.1 - 5.3
Homework
The Normal Curve
February
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1
Sections 5.4 - 5.5
Homework
Percentiles and Quantiles
2 3
Chapter 6
Homework
Measurement Error
Assignment # 3
guinea-pigs-low.txt
4 5
Sections 13.1 - 13.3
Homework
Probability
8
Sections 13.4 - 13.5, 14.1 - 14.5
Homework
Independence and Counting
9
Office hour:
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
10
Exam # 1
rainfall.txt
11 12
Sections 15.1 - 15.2
Homework
Repeated Independent Trials
15
Sections 16.1 - 16.3
Homework
The Law of Averages
16 17
Section 16.4
Homework
Sums and Box Models
Assignment # 4
18 19
Sections 17.1 - 17.2
Homework
Expected Values and Standard Errors
22
Sections 17.3 and 17.5
Chapter 18
Homework
The Normal Approximation
23 24
Section 19.1 Homework
Samples and Populations
Assignment # 5
Office hours:
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
25 26
Sections 19.2 - 19.8, 20.1 - 20.2
Homework
Chance in Sampling
Middle of the term
29
Sections 20.3 - 20.5
Homework
More on Chance in Sampling
March
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2
Chapter 21
Homework
Confidence Intervals
Assignment # 6
3 4
Chapter 23
Homework
Confidence Intervals for Means
7
Spring break
8
Spring break
9
Spring break
10
Spring break
11
Spring break
14
Sections 26.1 - 26.5
Homework
Testing Hypotheses
15
Office hour:
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
16
Exam # 2
17 18
Section 26.6
Homework
The t-test
21
Homework
Two-sided alternatives and R
22 23
Sections 27.1 - 27.3
Homework
Two-sample Tests
Assignment # 7
24 25
Good Friday
28
Easter Monday
29 30
Sections 27.2 - 27.5
Homework
Testing Proportions
31
April
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1
Sections 28.1 - 28.3
Homework
Chi-Square Tests: Goodness of Fit
4
Section 28.4
Homework
Chi-Square Tests: Independence
5 6
Sections 7.1-5 and 8.1
Homework
Two-variable Samples
Assignment # 8
7 8
Sections 8.2-4 and 9.1-5
Homework
Correlation, Association, and Causation
11
Correlation (cont'd)
12
Office hour:
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
13
Exam # 3
14 15
Sections 10.1-3
Homework
Linear Regression
18
Sections 10.4, 11.1, 11.3, 12.1-2
Homework
Least Squares
Office hour:
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
19 20
Sections 10.5, 11.4, 12.3
Homework
Linear Regression Examples
Assignment # 9
21 22
Chapter 29
Final Thoughtss
25
Review for final exam
26 27
Office hour:
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
28 29
May
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2 3 4
Final Exam
lifetimes.txt
rmr.txt
Due no later than 2:30 p.m.
5 6