Stat 1 Spring 2011

Instructor: Phil Everson

email: everson@swarthmore.edu

Office: Science Center 141

Meetings: Tuesday, Thursday 9:55-11:10 in SC 104

Office Hours: Monday 2:30-4:30, or by appointment.

Text: Statistics, Concepts and Controversies (SCC), 7th ed. by David S. Moore and William I. Notz

Syllabus

The Stat 1 Final will be Thursday at 9:00am in our regular classroom. You should bring a calculator and a 4x6 card of notes.

Practice Final problems

Solutions to Practice Final

Summary of terms - Definitions of terms related to Tests of Significance and Confidence Intervals.

Tests and CI's - The main ideas underlying tests and confidence intervals.

Assignment 11 (due Thursday, April 28): 22.16, 22.20, 22.26, 22.28, 22.31, 23.6, 23.12, 23.14, 23.16, 23.18

Additional review problems (not to turn in): 22.18, 23.3, 23.5, 23.7, 23.11

Also, see if you can explain this xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/882/

Confidence Intervals and Significance Test handout

Solutions to CI and test problems

random variables and Quick Draw handout

Assignment 10 (due Thursday, April 21) 21.3, 21.8, 21.11, 21.16, 21.18, 21.34, 22.3, 22.6, 22.12, 22.14

Conditional Probability with mammograms

Assignment 9 (due Tuesday, April 12) 20.8, 20.10, 20.12, 20.15, 20.16 + 5 other problems (click the link).

Assignment 8 (due Tuesday April 5) 17.1, 17.12, 17.16, 17.19, 17.20, 17.22, 17.25, 18.8, 18.10, 18.20

Linear Regression handout

Assignment 7 (due Tuesday, March 29): Click link to get a pdf with 5 problems from the book and three additional problems.

Practice Midterm Problems

Solutions to Practice MT problems

Additional SCC Practice Problems

CLT handout

Practice Normal Problems

Table C

Assignment 6 (due Thursday, March 3): 12.12, 12.17, 12.18, 12.20, 12.22, 12.31, 13.3, 13.12, 13.13, 13.28

Assignment 5 (due Tuesday, February 22): 10.10, 10.12, 10.14, 10.20, 10.25, 11.6, 11.8, 11.12, 11.16, 11.18

Assignment 4 (due Tuesday, February 15): 8.6, 8.11, 8.21, 8.23, 9.3, 9.14, 9.18, 16.18, 16.20, 16.21

Assignment 3 (due Tuesday, February 8) 4.3, 4.6, 4.23, 5.6, 5.12, 5.24, 6.8, 6.12, 6.22, 7.16

Assignment 2 (due Tuesday, February 1) 2.10 (ID alphabetically) 3.6, 3.11, 3.12, 3.14, 3.17, 3.21, 3.28, 4.12, 4.14

Assignment 1 (due Tuesday, January 25): 1.6, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 2.13, 2.17

SCC Web page

Other Stat Web Demos:

Sampling Distributions

Guessing Correlations