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| Class | Assignment | Due |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) Send me an e-mail introduction. Tell me a little about yourself--your interests, major, expectations for
the class. Include anything special you feel I should know about you, such as your math background, schedule for the term,
learning style, etc.
(2) Look over the Course Information and Syllabus page. Make sure you understand the class policies on homework and grading. (3) Read the Prelude, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. (4) page 15: 3, 7*, 9, 24*, 25. (Turn in the starred problems for grading.) |
Wed, 4/2 |
| 2 | (1) Read Chapter 3. You can skip Simpson's Paradox.
(2) pp 36-44: 7, 13*, 24*, 25, 37*. Do not use technology, draw graphs by hand. |
Fri, 4/4 |
| 3 | (1) Read Chapters 4 and 5.
(2) Read The Median Isn't the Message by Stephen Jay Gould. This essay has been called "the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics." Summarize the main point of this essay in one paragraph and turn this in with your regular homework. (3) pp 63-71: 3, 5, 11*, 12*, 23*, 39, 41; pp 89-99: 5, 12*, 14*, 23, 27, 33*, 35, 47 (4) Monday's class is in the Statistics Lab in CMC 201. Bring your Lab Manual and textbook to class. | Mon, 4/7 |
| 5 | (1) Read Chapter 6
(2) page 121: 1, 2*, 3, 17, 28*, 29, 39, 41*, 49; page 135: 29* | Fri, 4/11 |
| 6 | (1) Read Chapter 7 and pp 29-34 of the Lab Manual
(2) page 137: 37*; page 158: 3, 4*, 17*, 23, 25, 29*, 35* (Use S-Plus for graphs, correlations and summary statistics, where needed.) (3) Play the Guessing Correlations Game | Mon, 4/14 |
| 7 | (1) For this week, read Chapters 8, 9 and 10 (but skip "The Ladder of Powers" on p 223-227).
(2) You may use S-PLUS wherever needed and/or desired. page 185: 3, 21, 23, 31*, 33*, 41, 48*; page 234: 3, 5, 11* (Using S-PLUS, create a linear model for the data as given. Look at the residuals plot. Discuss the problems with using a linear model. Then answer (a, b, and c) using a log transformation. Look at the residuals plot for the transformed data and discuss the appropriateness and strength of the new model. (3) Reminder: Test 1 is on Monday, April 21. It will cover Parts I and II (Chapters 1-10). | Wed, 4/16 |
| 8 | (1) Review Part II Exploring Relationships Between Variables, with emphasis on Chapter 9
(2) page 210: 9, 11, 13; page 239: 11*, 26*, 31, 39, 40* | Fri, 4/18 |
| 9 | (1) Review!
(2) Test #1 (Chapters 1-10). Remember to bring your calculator. | Mon, 4/21 |
| 10 | (1) Read Chapter 11
(2) page 260: 5, 9, 19*, 20*, 25, 29* | Wed, 4/23 |
| 11 | (1) Read Chapter 12 and look over Chapter 13
(2) page 283: 1, 3, 4*, 7*, 9, 11, 15, 23, 25*, 28* | Fri, 4/25 |
| 12 | (1) Read Chapter 13
(2) page 307: 1, 3, 4*, 5, 7, 19*, 25*, 37, 42*, 43 (3) The Nurses Health Study is a major nationwide observational study investigating women's health. Read about the complexities of observational studies and experiments in the New York Times report, Hormone Studies: What went wrong?". Also read this follow-up report. Ask three questions about the issues raised in these readings. Write your questions on an index card and submit them with your homework. | Mon, 4/28 |
| 13 | (1) Read Chapters 14 and 15
(2) Homework: page 333: 11, 17, 24*, 26*, 27, 31*; page 356: 5, 11, 8*, 14*, 17*, 23, 29 | Wed, 4/30 |
| 14 | (1) Read Chapter 15 and look over Chapter 16 for Friday
(2) page 360: 19, 21*, 35*, 43, 44*, 45* (Solve this with Bayes Theorem) (3) Also turn in the following: Ovarian cancer afflicts 1 of every 5,000 women. A new blood test is highly sensitive, able to correctly detect the presence of ovarian cancer in 99.97% of women who have the disease. However, the false positive rate is 1% and hence the test is unlikely to be used as a screening test in the general population. Why are false positives such a big problem? Use both (i) a tree diagram and (ii) Bayes Rule to determine the probability that a woman who tests positive using this method actually has ovarian cancer. (4) Reminder: Test 2 is on Friday, May 9. It will cover Chapters 11-16. | Fri, 5/2 |
| 15 | (1) Read Chapter 16.
(2) Read about The Prosecutor's Fallacy. And check out this You Tube video on the same topic. (3) p 375: 3, 11, 16*, 19, 25, 26*, 27, 31, 33*, 35*, 39* (4) Complete the handout--passed out in class today and available on the Handouts page--on "Random Variables and Probability Models." | Wed, 5/7 |
| 16 | (1) Test #2 | Fri, 5/9 |
| 17 | (1) Read Chapter 18
(2) Read The Most Dangerous Equation (2) p 423: 1, 3, 7, 9*, 17, 20*, 21, 23*, 31, 33, 35* | Mon, 5/12 |
| 18 | (1) Read Chapter 19.
(2) p 443: 3*, 5, 7, 11, 17, 19, 21*, 28*, 35* |
Wed, 5/14 |
| 19 |
(1) Read Chapter 20.
(2) Read the handout "Statistics in the Courtroom." Answer the four questions at the end of the handout and include these with your homework. (3) page 467: 1, 2*, 3, 5, 9*, 11*, 13, 15, 23, 26* (4) Complete the worksheet on Title IX and hand it in with your homework. (5) Here are the group assignments for the Final Project. Contact your group and begin discussing ideas for your project. | Fri, 5/16 |
| 20 |
(1) Read Chapter 21
(2) page 489: 3, 5, 6*, 9, 13*, 15*, 17, 25*, 27 (3) Include with homework: A random sample of 20 students taken from two statistics sections (60 students total) finds that 14 students prefer Skittles to Reese's Pieces. Obtain a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of stat students who prefer Skittles to Reese's Pieces. How will you deal with the fact that the 10% condition is not satisfied? | Mon, 5/19 |
| 21 |
(1) Read Chapter 22
(2) Read the handout "The sacredness of .05". (3) page 506: 3, 5, 9, 11*, 13*, 29 (4) page 514: 11, 16*, 17*, 19, 25 (5) Wednesday's class is in the lab. Please bring your lab manual. | Wed, 5/21 |
| 22, 23 |
The following homework (which will be graded as two homeworks) is based on Wednesday and Friday's lab work and will be due next Monday.
(1) Read Chapters 23, 24, and 25 (2) Turn in all of the following problems. Unless noted, do all problems using S-PLUS. Include your computer output and give explanations where necessary. Answer the questions in the homework explicitly; do not merely rely on computer output alone. Page 596: 5, 12, 17, 20, 27 (do not compute the confidence interval by hand; just take the book's solution as given), 33, 34. Note that the data for problems 17 (hearing), 20 (meals), and 33 (colorortext) are on-line in Collab -> Departments -> MATH -> Statistics -> Math_215 -> Dobrow. Data for other problems need to be input into S-PLUS by hand. For each of the above inference problems clearly indicate in your solution whether the problem is (i) a one-sample procedure for proportions, (ii) two-sample procedure for proportions; (iii) one-sample for means; (iv) two independent groups for means; or (v) matched pairs for means. (3) Reminder: Set up a group meeting with me to discuss your final project. | Mon, 5/26 |
| 24 |
(1) Read about Benson's Law
(2) Read Chapter 26 (3) p 625: 1*, 3, 4*, 7, 13* (4) Wednesday's class is in the Lab. |
Wed, 5/28 |
| 25 | (1) Review
(2) See Lab Manual, pp 59-65. (3) No HW to be turned in. Use S-PLUS for 11, 15, 21. (4) For Friday's discussion (not to be turned in): Look at the even-numbered problems in the Part V and Part VI reviews. Do not do these problems (unless you want), but identify the type of inference being used in each. See the "Think" column on the Quick Guide to Inference (p 595). For each problem decide (i) what's the inference about? (ii) one group or two; and (iii) procedure. |
Fri, 5/30 |
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