STAT 290 – Statistics – Spring 2019
The schedule of topics should be considered tentative until notes are posted (on Blackboard) about two days before class. The exam dates are pretty firm. You should read the relevant sections of the text before class.
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
| Week 1 (Jan. 14-18) |
Class Cancelled | §1.1: Introduction and §1.2: Displaying Data | §1.2 cont.: Displaying Data |
| Week 2 (Jan. 21-25) |
MLK Day | Class Cancelled | §1.3-1.4: Measures of Center and Spread |
| Week 3 (Jan. 28-Feb. 1) |
§1.4 cont. and §2.1: Intro Probability | Class Cancelled | §2.1 cont. and §2.2: Probability Rules |
| Week 4 (Feb. 4-8) |
§2.2 cont. and 2.3: Counting Rules | Class Cancelled watch videos |
§2.4-2.5: Conditional Probability and Independence |
| Week 5 (Feb. 11-15) |
§3.1-3.2: Random Variables | §3.2: Discrete Random Variables and §3.3: Expected Values | Test #1 |
| Week 6 (Feb. 18-22) |
§3.4 Binomial Distribution | §3.5: Hypergeometric Distribution | §3.5 cont.: Negative Binomial (Geometric) Distribution |
| Week 7 (Feb. 25-Mar. 1) |
§3.5 cont.: Negative Binomial Distribution | §3.6: Poisson | §4.1-4.2: Continuous Random Variables |
| Week 8 (Mar. 4-8) |
§4.2: Percentiles, Expected Values | §4.2 cont. | §4.3: Normal Distribution |
| (Mar. 11-15) | Midterm Break | ||
| Week 9 (Mar. 18-22) |
§4.3 cont. and §4.4: Exponential Distribution | §4.4: Exponential and Gamma* Distribution | §5.1: Joint Random Variables |
| Week 10 (Mar. 25-29) |
§5.2: Expected Values, Covariance, Correlation | §5.3: Sampling Distribution and §5.4: CLT | §5.5: Linear Combinations |
| Week 11 (Apr. 1-5) |
§5.5 cont. and §7.1: Properties of Confidence Intervals |
Test #2 | §7.1 cont. CI for Mean |
| Week 12 (Apr. 8-12) |
§7.1 cont. and §7.2: CI for Mean and Proportion | §7.2 cont. and §7.3, 4.6*: CI for Proportion and Mean | §7.3: Prediction Interval |
| Week 13 (Apr. 15-19) |
§8.1-8.2: Hypothesis Tests | §8.3: t-Test | §8.4-8.5: Test for Proportions |
| Week 14 (Apr. 22-26) |
Term Break | §9.1-9.2: Inference for Difference of Two Means | §9.2 cont. and 9.3*: Inference for Paired Samples* |
| Week 15 (Apr. 29-May 3) |
§12.1-12.2: Simple Linear Regression |
Test #3 | §12.5*: Sample Correlation* |
| FINAL EXAM | Sect. 1: Friday, May 10, at 7:30-9:20; Sect. 2: Thursday, May 9, at 9:30-11:20 | ||
*Material to be covered as time allows.
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