STAT 220 Statistics I

Spring 2012

 

 

 

Instructor:          Mark Werness

 

Sections:             STAT 220 03

                            9:35 - 10:40 MWF

                            Room 206 OEC

                                    and

                            STAT 220 05

                            10:55 – Noon MWF

                            Room 206 OEC

                                       

 Office:               411 OSS

                            651-962-5471

 

                            Hours:

                            10:00 – 11:30    TR

                             and by appointment

Required:   

                            Text: David S. Moore, George P. McCabe,

                            and Bruce Craig

                            Introduction to the Practice of Statistics,

                            7th Edition, W.H. Freeman, 2012.

 

Grading:

                            Weights:

                            3 In-class Exams        60%

 

                            Homework and

                            Computer Exercises   15%

 

                            Final Exam                 25%

 

                            For the exams, 90% of the points will be needed for an “A-“, 80% for a

                            “B-“, 60% for a “C-“ and 50% for a “D-“. 

 

Enhancement Program:

Qualified students with documented disabilities who may need classroom accommodations should make an appointment with the Enhancement Program – Disability Services office. Appointments can be made by calling 651-962-6315.You may also make an appointment in person in O’Shaughnessy Educational Center, room 119. For further information, you can locate the Enhancement Program on the web at http://www.stthomas.edu/enhancementprog/.


Tentative Semester Schedule

Class    Date         Topics                                                          Reading

 

  1        M 1/30   Intro., Overview, Intro. to Minitab              Intro. and pp. 1 – 22

 

  2        W 2/1     Types of Data, Measurements,                     pp. 163 - 183

                           Minitab and graphing

 

  3        F  2/3      Data collection and “clickers”                     pp. 28 - 39

                           

  4        M 2/6     Numeric Descriptive Stats                            pp. 39 - 45

                            

  5        W 2/8     Descriptive Stats: Dispersion                       pp. 50 - 67

 

  6        F  2/10    Intro. to the Normal Distribution                 pp. 79 – 94, 108 - 116

 

  7        M  2/13  Intro. to Linear Regression                           pp. 101 – 105, 116 - 119

  

  8        W 2/15   Intro. to Correlation                                      pp. 122 – 132, 148 - 152

 

  9        F  2/17    Association vs Causation                             pp. 163 – 183, 188 - 198

 

10        M 2/20   Data Collection and Sampling                      pp. 214 - 222

 

11        W 2/22   Sampling Methods, Ethics

 and Review for Exam

 

12        F  2/24    Exam I                                                          pp. 227 - 240

 

13        M 2/27    Probability                                                    pp. 241 – 245, 278 - 290

 

14        W 2/29    Probability Rules                                          pp. 248 - 257

 

15        F  3/2      Random Variables and Probability               pp. 259 - 275

                            Distributions

 

16       M  3/5     Expected Value, Mean and Variance            pp.  312 – 321, 328 - 332

 

17       W 3/7      Binomial Distribution                                   pp.  202 – 210, 263 - 268

 

18        F  3/9      Normal Distribution Review and law           pp. 297 – 308

                                    of large numbers

 

19       M 3/12    Sampling Distribution for the sample mean pp.  321 - 326                      

 

20       W 3/14    Sampling Distributions for proportions           

                              and Review for Exam

 

21        F  3/16    Exam 2                                                             pp. 341 - 347

 **       Mon/Mar. 19   Spring Break begins                               **

**       Sun/ Mar. 25   Spring Break last day                             **

 

22        M 3/26    Intro to Estimation                                      pp. 348 – 355

 

23        W 3/28    Confidence Intervals                                   pp. 403 - 407 

 

24        F 3/30      More confidence intervals                          pp. 360 – 366

                             and sample size

                                                                                                 

25        M 4/2       Intro. to Hypothesis Testing                       pp.  393 - 397

 

26       W 4/4                    Hypothesis Tests for the Mean                  pp.  367 – 378, 382 - 387

 

**        Fri/Apr. 6        Easter Break begins                              **

**        Mon/Apr. 9     Easter Break last day                            **

 

27        W  4/11    Hypothesis Tests for the Mean                     pp. 408 - 413

 

28        F  4/13      Hyp. Tests for the Mean, t tests                   pp. 414 - 418

 

29        M 4/16     Hyp. Tests for the Mean. Matched pairs      pp. 432 - 438

 

30        W 4/18     Hypothesis Tests comparing means             pp. 439 - 452

 

31        F  4/20      Hypothesis Tests comparing means            

                              and review for exam 3

 

32        M 4/23      Exam 3                                                        pp. 321 - 326, pp. 473 - 477

 

33        W 4/25      Confidence intervals for proportions          pp. 479 - 486                        

 

34        F  4/27       Hypothesis tests for Proportions                pp. 490 – 494, 496 - 500

 

35        M  4/30     Hypothesis Tests Comparing Proportions  pp.  511 - 529      

 

36        W  5/2      Chi-square Independence Tests                   pp. 545 – 553

 

37        F   5/4       Linear Regression and Correlation              pp. 554 – 560

 

38       M  5/7       Linear Regression and Minitab                    pp. 591 – 598, 599 - 610

 

 

39       W 5/9        Multiple Linear Regression and Minitab     pp. 623 – 641   

 

40        F  5/11      Analysis of Variance, Course Evaluation 

 

Final exams:    Section 03 on Wednesday, May 16 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

                        Section 05 on Tuesday, May 15 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.