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MA145-B Fall 2006 Syllabus

WeekDatesText
Section		Topic(s)
1 8/29
No
Class		 8/31 1.1introduction
1.2observational studies
2 9/5 9/7 1.2simple random sampling
1.3other sampling methods
1.4sources of error in sampling
1.5the design of experiments
3 9/12 9/14 2.1organizing qualitative data
2.2organizing quantitative data
2.3graphical misrepresentation of data
4 9/19 9/21 3.1measures of central tendency
3.2measures of dispersion
5 9/26 9/28 3.4measures of position
3.5box plots
6 10/3 10/5 N/Aclinical trials
N/AReview for Midterm
7 10/10
No
Classes		 10/12 MIDTERM EXAM Thursday, October 12
8 10/17 10/19 6.2The binomial probability distribution
7.1properties of the normal distribution
7.2the standard normal distribution
9 10/24 10/26 7.3applications of the normal distribution
7.4assessing normality
7.5the central limit theorem
10 10/31 11/2 8.1confidence intervals for means: known variance
8.2confidence intervals for means: unknown variance
11 11/7 11/9 9.1hypothesis testing terminology
9.2testing hypotheses on means, known variance
12 11/14 11/16 9.3testing hypotheses on means: unknown variance
10.1inference on two dependent (paired) samples
13 11/21 11/23
No
Classes		 10.2inference on two independent (unpaired) samples
14 11/28 11/30 11.1chi-squared goodness of fit test
11.2chi-squared test for independence (homogeneity of proportions)
15 12/5 12/7 8.3confidence intervals about a population proportion
9.4testing hypotheses about population proportions
10.3inference about two population proportions
FINAL EXAM SATURDAY, DEC 16 8:30 AM D-015