The course information sheet is here. The schedule below is a record of what we have actually done as well as an approximate projection of what we will do. Homework assignments will be posted as they are assigned. Problems are the same in both editions of the book unless otherwise specified.

• Week 1
  • 1/12.
    • Chapter 2: 1, 3, 11, 13ab (due 1/14).
  • 1/14.
    • Chapter 2: 29, 33ab (due 1/19).
    • Chapter 2: 2, 18, 22, 30, 38 (due 1/21).
• Week 2
  • 1/19.
    • Chapter 2: 45, 51, 53 (due 1/21).
    • Last day to add.
  • 1/21.
    • Chapter 2: 65, 73, 75, 77a (due 1/24).
    • Last day to drop.
• Week 3
  • 1/24.
    • Review and preview worksheet (due 1/26).
    • Chapter 2: 60, 78, 90, 94, 100 (due 1/28).
    • Solution to the rivet problem.
  • 1/26.
    • Chapter 3: 7, 9 (due 1/28).
  • 1/28.
    • Chapter 3: 11, 15, 23 (due 1/31).
    • A solution to the problem on testing for carriers of a disease.
• Week 4
  • 1/31.
    • Chapter 3: 29, 33, 39 (due 2/2).
    • Chapter 3: 8, 12, 18, 30, 38 (due 2/4).
  • 2/2.
    • Chapter 3: 47, 49ab, 65 (due 2/4).
  • 2/4.
    • Chapter 3: 71ab, 75 (due 2/7).
    • 9:00 section only. Do chapter 3: 47 in addition to the above.
• Week 5
  • 2/7.
    • Exam review sheet.
    • Review problems for 3.4 & 3.5: 51, 53, 57, 69, 73, 77, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 107, 113.
  • 2/9. Exam 1.
  • 2/11.
    • Exam recap.
    • Chapter 4: 1, 7 (due 2/14).
• Week 6
  • 2/14.
    • Worksheet on meteorites (an example of a Poisson rv).
    • Solutions to the worksheet.
    • Chapter 4: 5, 13, 17 (due 2/16).
  • 2/16.
    • Chapter 4: 19, 23, 31 (due 2/18).
  • 2/18.
    • Chapter 4: 33, 35, 39, 41, 53 (due 2/23).
• Week 7
  • 2/23.
    • Chapter 4: 59, 61, 65af (due 2/23).
  • 2/25.
    • Exam 2 review (check back for updates on Monday).
    • Study/Review problems for chapter 4: 1-23 odd, 29-47 odd, 53, 55.
    • Worksheet on the Pareto principle (due 2/28).
• Week 8
  • 2/28.
    • Exam 2 review.
    • Study/Review problems for chapter 3: 49, 61, 79, 81, 85, 87, 97, 99, 109, 111.
    • Study/Review problems for chapter 4: 1-23 odd, 29-47 odd, 53, 55.
  • 3/2. Exam 2 covering up through 4.4. Yes, this includes exponential and Poisson random variables.
  • 3/4.
    • Chapter 1: 11, 15, 33 (due 3/14).
• Week 9
  • 3/14.
    • Chapter 1: 47, 51b, 55 (use answers in back for 51a) (due 3/16).
    • Chapter 1: 62, 68 (due 3/18).
  • 3/16.
    • Chapter 5: 1, 9a (due 3/18).
  • 3/18.
    • Homework (due 3/21).
    • Solutions.
• Week 10
  • 3/21.
    • Chapter 5: 37, 39, 49, 53 (due 3/23).
  • 3/23.
    • Worksheet on chapters 5 and 6 (due 3/25).
  • 3/25. Last Day to Withdraw.
    • Chapter 7: 1, 3abc, 5 (due 3/28).
    • Solutions to the worksheet on chapters 5 and 6.
• Week 11
  • 3/28.
    • Chapter 7: 13, 15, 19 (due 3/30).
    • Chapter 7: 2, 20, 22 (due 4/1).
  • 3/30.
    • Chapter 7: 29, 35, 37ab (due 4/1).
  • 4/1.
    • Chapter 7: 43, 44 and
    • Chapter 8: 3, 5, 11abcd (due 4/4).
• Week 12
  • 4/4.
    • Chapter 8: 15, 21abc, 23, 29 (due 4/6).
  • 4/6.
    • Exam 3. RESCHEDULED
    • Formula page of exam 3.
  • 4/8. Exam 3.
• Week 13
  • 4/11.
    • Chapter 8: 35, 37, 39 (due 4/13).
  • 4/13.
    • Chapter 8: 45abc, 47, 49abc, 51, 53 (due 4/15).
  • 4/15.
    • Chapter 8: 50, 52, 60 (due 4/18).
    • Chapter 9: 3, 5abc, 7 (due 4/18).
• Week 14
  • 4/18.
    • Worksheet (due 4/20).
    • Chapter 9: 17ab, 19, 21 (due 4/20).
  • 4/20.
    • Chapter 12: 5, 15 (due 4/27).
• Week 15
  • 4/27. Chapter 12.
  • 4/29. Chapter 12.
• Exam Week
  • 5/2. Final for 1:10 class. Held 1:00-3:00 in Jepson 109.
  • 5/4. Final for 9:00 class. Held 8:00-10:00 in Herak 303.

Announcements

• The book has a table of t-curve tail areas (table A.8) on P. 674. You should use this table to find P-values of t-tests.
• The cover page of exam 3 is now online.
• Exam 3 has been rescheduled to Friday, April 1. (posted 4/8)
• The first exam will be on Wednesday, February 9. The exam will cover chapters 2 and 3. (Posted 2/2)
• Remember to bring something for show-and-tell. (Posted 1/19)
• Exams are scheduled for 2/9, 3/2, and 4/6. Please identify schedule conflicts now. (Posted 1/13)

Resources and Links

• Course Information Sheet
• The course web page for a similar class I taught at Notre Dame
• Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics from UAH
• STATS: the numbers behind the news
• Can you behave randomly?
• The Cochrane Collaboration
• IMF Data and Statistics
• The Pew Research Center
• RANDOM.org
• Jon Stewart, statistician

Show and Tell

• Worldometers (from Tom, 2/2).
• US debt clock (from Tom, 2/2).
• How to win the lottery. Including suggestions for cracking the Washington lottery (from Francis, 2/4).
• 200 years, 200 countries (from Matt, 2/4, and Erin, 2/23).
• Global peace map (from Brianne, 2/11).
• Happiness by country (from Tom, 2/14).
• US population pyramids (from Tom, 2/16).
• The growth of Walmart (from Webster, 2/16).
• Income inequality in the US (from Megan, 2/25).
• Facebook statistics (from Carly, 2/28).
• Did you know? (from Sam).
• The world's most typical person (from Megan, 3/4).
• College basketball statistics (from Lauren, 3/16).
• Lifeclock (from Sam, 3/16).
• Earthquakes.xls (from Ruslan, 3/18).
• Human development world map (from Michael 3/23).
• Compare your country (from Alison 2/23).
• US Census data (from Sam 2/25).
• Movie review intelligence (from Bridget 2/25).
• Movie industry statistics (from Anthony 4/1).
• Baseball stats (White Sox @ Indians, 4/3/11) (from Thomas 4/4).
• Five easy lies (from Marty 4/4).
• Crime statistics (from James 4/11).
• Progress towards the UN's Millennium Development Goals (from Brianne 4/13).

Last edited on April 20, 2011 by Logan Axon.