Class Photo

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

3 September
Introduction


Ref: W. H. Freeman and Company

5 September
Examples of Statistics


Image: CT Dept of Agricuture

8 September
Measurement Difficulties

Ref: WGBY The web site of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

10 September
Time Plots

U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics

12 September
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte

Ref: Charles Joseph Minard; Napoleon's March to Moscow, The War of 1812

15 September
Measuring Centers

Mean
Median

Photo: R. DeGray, Montpelier, VT

17 September
Measuring Spread

Range
Interquartile Range
Variance
Standard Deviation

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19 September
Mean vs Median Applets
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22 September
Continuation: Variance
Standard Deviation

24 Septermber
Five Number Summary - Boxplots - Dispersion

26 September
The Normal Distributions

29 September
Poverty. The Normal Distributions

Catholic Campaign for Human Development

1 October
Stat in the News. The Standard Normal Distribution.

3 October
Scatterplots

6 October
Correlation

Ref: The Confederation Debate: 50 Years and Counting, has been developed by the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site team in partnership with the Department of Education.

8 October
Regression

The Least Squares Line

10 October
Regression continued

Sir Francis Galton
Clendening Library Portrait Collection

13 October
Reading Day

15 October
Correlation, Regression and r²

17 October
Coefficient of Determination: r²

20 October
Review

22 October
Review and MINITAB

24 October
Midterm Exam

27 October
Sampling

Rotating Icosahedral Die
John Greschak

29 October
Observational Studies vs Experiments


Aspirin
Library of 3-D Molecular Structures
The MathMol Library of Math Structures
New York University

31 October
Probability


Benford's Law
Georgia Tech Reasearch Institute

3 November
Bernoullli Trials

Jacob Bernoulli
Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

5 November
Law of Large Numbers

7 November
Binomial Distribution

Deborah J. Bennett

10 November
Binomial Distribution, cont.

Hexstat, Brown University Jun Qi in 3/1/2000

12 November
Sampling Distributions

Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
David W. Stockburger

14 November
Halting Clinical Trials
The Central Limit Theorem

Roswell Park Cancer Intitute

17 November
Central Limit Theorem cont.

19 November
Confidence Intervals

21 November
Confidence Intervals

24 November
Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing

26 November
No Class

28 November
No Class

1 December
C. I.'s via MINITAB & Hypothesis Testing

3 December
Review

Echinacea
Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University

5 December
Hour exam

8 December
p-value and Student's t-distribution

Final Exam: 12:00 - 3:00, Friday, 12 December 2003