Math 308: Statistics Spring 2012 (Updated 2012.05.02)

Welcome to the Math 308 web page for Spring 2012.

Web Page and Links for Spring 2010: This link is available for your information. Clearly, the course this semester will differ in some respects, but the basic structure will be similar.

Syllabus (Last Updated 2012.01.09)

Tentative Schedule (Living Document) (Last Updated 2012.03.22)

Useful probability text: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/pdf.html (Please do not print this.)

Course Feedback Sheet (Word Document)—Please use this sheet to let me know any problems you are having with the course or the classroom presentations. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may slip a feedback sheet under my door. While I can not always find a way to make suggested changes, I can often make the suggested changes or similar changes.

Exemplary papers:

Homework: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Quizzes: 1 2 3 4(key) 5

I. Study Sheets for Tests and Old Tests:

Study Sheet for Test 1 and Test 1 Spring 2010 Test 1 Spring 2010 Answered Test 1 Key (2012) A B

Study Sheet for Test 2 and Test 2 Spring 2010 Test 2 Spring 2010 Answered Test 2 Key (2012)

Take-home Part of Test 3

Study Sheet for Test 3 and Test 3 Spring 2010 Test 3 Spring 2010 Answered Test 3 Spring 2009 Answered Test 3 2012 Key

Study Sheet for the Final Exam: This is just a list of the text sections and homework assignments which were included on previous study sheets. Note that questions about Simple regression and ANOVA are possible on the final.

II. Formulae Sheets

III. Notes and Handouts by Text Section

Text Section	Handout/Notes
3.1, 3.2:		Probability Space
3.7:		Bayes and Medical Screening
5.5:		Solution to Problem 5.47
Goodbye to probability		Benford’s Law Monty Hall Paradox
6.2-6.3:		CLT and the sampling distributions of the mean and the variance Links to proofs of the Central Limit Theorem
7.4-7.6:		Hypothesis testing (also Chapter 2: 2, 3 and 4)
7.8		Statistical Power (New: I have already corrected some mistakes. Please let me know if there are others. Thank you.)
12.1-12.2:		Analysis of Variance
11.1-11.2, 11.6		Simple Linear Regression

IV. Labs

Labs 1, 2 and 3: Histogram, Stem-and-leaf and One-sample t-test Correct answers: 1, 2, 3

Lab 4: Independent-samples t-test A correct answer

Lab 5: Paired-samples t-test A correct answer

Lab 6: Contingency table analysis (using chi-square statistic) A correct answer

Lab 7: ANOVA and Bonferroni A correct answer

Lab 8: Simple regression A correct answer

VI. Interesting stuff

a. Coin tossing