| DATE | Week # | Topics and exams |
| 8-24
8-26 |
1 | Ch. 1 – Introduction- Picturing Distributions with Graphs
Categorical and Quantitative variables
|
| 8-29
8-31 9-2 |
2 | Ch. 2 – Describing Distributions with Numbers-Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Distribution Dispersion, Ch.3 – Scatterplots Ch. 3 – Measures of Association Between Two Variables (Correlation Coefficient)
|
| 9-5
9-7
9-9 |
3 | Ch. 4 – Regression
The least-squares regression line, outliers and influential observations
Ch. 7 & Ch. 8 will be covered later in the semester and will be on the final exam.
Ch. 9 – Introducing Probability
|
| 9-12
9-14 9-16 |
4 | Events and Their Probabilities
Probability Rules Probability Models
|
| 9-19
9-20
9-21 9-23 |
5 | Ch. 10 – General Rules of Probability
EXAM 1 (Chapters 1-4, 9), 8:00-9:15 AM, 127 Nieuwland Science Hall
Bayes’ theorem Ch. 11 – The Normal Distributions
|
| 9-26
9-28 9-30 |
6 | Ch. 12– Discrete Probability Distributions (Random Variables)
Binomial Probability Distribution-Poisson Probability Distribution Ch. 13 – Sampling Distributions
|
| 10-3
10-5 10-7 |
7 | Ch. 14 – Introduction to Inference
Confidence interval for the mean Tests of significance |
| 10-10
10-12
10-13
10-14 |
8 | P-value and statistical significance
Tests for a population mean
EXAM 2 (Chapters 9-14), 8:00-9:15 AM, 141 DeBartolo Hall
Ch. 15 – Inference in practice
|
| Oct. 15-23 | 9 | Fall BREAK
|
| 10-24
10-26 10-28 |
10 | Ch. 15 – Inference in practice
Ch. 17 – Inference about a Population Mean Ch.18 – Comparing Two Means
|
| 10-31
11-2 11-4 |
11 | Ch.19 – Inference about a Population Proportion
Ch. 20– Comparing Two Proportions Ch. 21– The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit
|
| 11-7
11-9 11-11
|
12 | The Chi-Square distributions
Ch. 22– The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables Conditions for the Chi-Square Test
|
| 11-14
11-15
11-16 11-18
|
13 | Ch. 24– One-way Analysis of Variance
EXAM 3 (Chapters 14, 15, 17– 22), 8:00-9:15 AM, 141 DeBartolo Hall
One-way Analysis of Variance One-way Analysis of Variance
|
| 11-21 | 14 | Comparing several means
|
| Nov. 23-27 | 14 | Thanksgiving Break
|
| 11-28
11-30 12-2
|
15 | Comparing several means
Ch. 7 – Samples and Observational Studies Ch.8 – Designing Experiments |
| 12-5
12-7 |
16
|
Ch. 26– Analysis of Variance: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA
Semester Review |
| Dec. 14 | FINAL EXAM (Cumulative) 1:45 – 3:45 p.m. |