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Cheating: It is impossible to cheat on homework and quizzes. All homework and all quizzes are open text and you can talk to anyone about them at any time. All quizzes can be worked in groups and I encourage you to take advantage of this policy. If you are struggling, ask a neighbor or ask me. If you are not struggling, be willing to explain your work to those around you. You can learn a lot more by not only being able to do the work yourself but being able to explain it to other people.
All exams are closed-book, closed-neighbor, closed-instructor, closed-AI, closed-calculator, closed-notes, etc... Cheating on an exam will not be tolerated. My policy for anyone caught cheating on any exam, including the final exam, is to award the culprit a "0" for that exam. All cheating offenses will be reported to the Dean of Students who may impose additional sanctions.
Resources: You can come to see me during my office hours or make appointments outside of those hours. You may hire a private tutor. The mathematics department keeps a list of these at: http://www.math.indiana.edu/resources/tutors/
| Tentative Syllabus | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Topics | Sections | Homework (due in the following lecture) |
| Monday, August 28 | Purpose of statistics and statistical errors | 1.1-1.3 | 1.12, 1.21 |
| Wednesday, August 30 | Precision versus confidence and hypothesis testing | 1.4-1.6 | 1.18, 1.20 |
| Friday, September 1 | Summaries of data | 2.1-2.13 | 2.42, 2.56 |
| Monday, September 4 | Types of probabilities, rules, and independence | 3.1-3.4 | 3.34, 3.38 |
| Wednesday, September 6 | Conditional probabilities | 3.4 | 3.41, 3.74 |
| Friday, September 8 | Tree Diagrams and Bayes's Formula | 3.5-3.6 | 3.54, 3.56 |
| Monday, September 11 | Discrete Random Variables | 4.1-4.5 | 4.20, 4.27 |
| Wednesday, September 13 | Variances and Uniform and Bernoulli random variables | 4.6-5.1 | 4.28, 5.5 |
| Friday, September 15 | Binomial and hypergeometric random variables | 5.2-5.3 | 5.18, 5.24 |
| Monday, September 18 | Review | Practice Exam I | No Homework |
| Wednesday, September 20 | Exam 1 | ||
| Friday, September 22 | Hypothesis testing and the sign test | 6.1-6.3 | 6.2, 6.10 |
| Monday, September 25 | Binomial test and Fisher's exact test | 6.4-6.5 | 6.18, 6.24 |
| Wednesday, September 27 | Continuous random variables | 7.1-7.3 | 7.6, 7.16 |
| Friday, September 29 | Functions of continuous random variables | 7.4-7.5 | 7.18, 7.41 |
| Monday, October 2 | Chebyshev's inequality | 7.6 | 7.27, 7.44 |
| Wednesday, October 4 | Normal distribution and its approx. to Binomial | 8.1-8.3 | 8.14, 8.30 |
| Friday, October 6 | Central Limit Theorem | 8.4-8.5 | 8.47, and: list 5 kinds of data that you expect to be approximately normally distributed and 5 kinds that you expect not to be normally distributed. You may include 2 kinds of each from the class discussion but 3 should be your own ideas. |
| Monday, October 9 | Joint distributions | 10.1-10.2 | 10.2, 10.4 |
| Wednesday, October 11 | Correlations, covariances, linear combinations | 10.4 | 10.8, 10.12 |
| Friday, October 13 | Parameters, statistics, law of averages | 11.1-11.4 | 11.6, 11.8 |
| Monday, October 16 | Review | Practice Exam II | No Homework |
| Wednesday, October 18 | Exam 2 | ||
| Friday, October 20 | Laws of averages, Z, and T statistics | 11.5-11.8 | 11.46, 11.50 |
| Monday, October 23 | Z tests | 12.1-12.2 | 12.6, 12.8 |
| Wednesday, October 25 | T tests | 12.3-12.4 | 12.14, 12.16 |
| Friday, October 27 | 1-sided T tests and robustness issues | supplemental material | Homework Exercises |
| Monday, October 30 | Confidence intervals | 13.1-13.3, 13.6 | 13.4, 13.28 |
| Wednesday, November 1 | T intervals and margins of error | 13.4-13.5 | 13.14, 13.26 |
| Friday, November 3 | Binomial exact intervals | 13.7 | 13.30, 13.37 |
| Monday, November 6 | Matched pairs versus independent samples | 14.1-14.2 | 14.4, 14.12 |
| Wednesday, November 8 | Variances and degrees of freedom in T tests | 14.3-14.4 | 14.18, 14.30 |
| Friday, November 10 | Correlation and regression | 15.1-15.4 | 15.2, 15.10 |
| Monday, November 13 | Review | Practice Exam III | No Homework |
| Wednesday, November 15 | Exam 3 | ||
| Friday, November 17 | Regression | 15.5-15.7 | 15.16, 15.18 |
| Monday, November 20 | Testing correlations | 15.8-15.9 | 15.23, 15.27 |
| Wednesday, November 22 | Thanksgiving Break | -- | -- |
| Friday, November 24 | Thanksgiving Break | -- | -- |
| Monday, November 27 | Chi square | 16.1-16.2 | 16.1, 16.2 |
| Wednesday, November 29 | Goodness of fit | 16.3 | 16.8, 16.10 |
| Friday, December 1 | Contingency tables | 16.4 | 16.18, 16.30 |
| Monday, December 4 | One-sided and compound tests | 16.5-16.6 | 16.26, 16.34 |
| Wednesday, December 6 | Review/Evaluations | Practice Final | No Homework |
| Friday, December 8 | Review | -- | No Homework |
| Final - Monday, December 11, 8-10 am | |||