STT 215, Elementary Statistics
Course Information
Syllabus
| Instructor: Jim Blum | Office: BR 248 | |
| Office Hours: See Here | Phone: 962-3290 | |
| Course Meetings: MW-BR 206, F-161 Section 7 1:00-1:50, Section 8 2:00-2:50 | E-Mail: blumj@uncw.edu | |
| Texts (Required): | Modern Elementary Statistics, Freund & Perles | |
| Grading: | Homework/Quizzes | 40% |
| Exams (2) | 20% each | |
| Final Exam | 20% | |
| Course Topics: | Fundamental terminology and concepts | |
| Graphical displays of data | ||
| Methods of data collection/sampling | ||
| Probability and probability distributions | ||
| Estimation and inference for single populations | ||
| Comparisons between two populations | ||
| Correlation and regression | ||
| Use of statistical analysis software | ||
| Important Dates: | ||
| Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King Day (holiday) | |
| Jan. 18 | Last day to drop (with no grade) or add a class | |
| Feb. 28 | Last day to withdraw with a W--undergraduate students | |
| Mar. 12-16 | Spring Break | |
| Apr. 4 | Last day to withdraw with a W--graduate students | |
| Apr. 5&6 | No Classes | |
| Apr. 30 | Last day of class | |
| Wednesday, May 2 | Final exam for STT 215-section 8, 3:00-6:00 | |
| Monday, May 7 | Final exam for STT 215-section 7, 11:30-2:30 | |
| Internet Use: Though this course meets in a computer lab on occasion, it is not a course in net surfing or e-mail checking. Unauthorized internet use during class time may lead to significant penalties | ||
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- Practice Problems
- Chapters 1 & 2
- p10: 12,13
- p27: 26, 36-42, 44
- p34: 49, 51, 54
- Chapter 3
- p51: 5-10
- p61: 27-33(don't worry about stemplots), 36, 42-45, 48, 49
- Chapter 4
- p83: 3(also find IQR),10,12,20-22,23a-d(don't worry about bell shaped),24,25
- p91: 40, 41, 43
- Chapter 5
- p110: 4,5,8,9,10,11,14,15-23 odd, 27-33 odd
- p119: 43-61 odd
- Chapter 6
- p130: 11, 13, 15, 19
- p137: 21, 25, 29
- p143: 43-49 odd
- p150: 51-67 odd
- Chapter 8
- p187: 1-7 odd, 11, 13
- p204: 47
- Chapter 9
- p215: 5-11 odd, 12, 13-17 odd
- p225: 25-31 odd
- Chapter 11
- p272: 1-5 odd (construct the confidence interval in addition to finding error), 9, 11, 15a, 17, 21b, 23
- p284: 39, 41, 45, 47, 51
- Confidence interval formulas
- Practice problems for confidence intervals (Solutions)
- Quiz 7 Solutions
- More CI practice (Solutions)
- Chapter 12
- p306: 27, 29
- p314: 42
- Chapter 14
- p332: 8, 9, 10
- Hypothesis testing formulas
- Practice problems for hypothesis testing (Solutions)
- Chapter 16
- p406: 3, 6, 8, 9, 12--ignore book questions and, for each, find the correlation, the equation of the line of best fit, interpret the value of the slope and test to see if the linear model has significant predicitve utility.
- Sample Questions
- Sample exam questions for hypothesis testing and confidence intervals and regression (Solutions)
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