Mt 120 Applied Statistics - Spring 2003

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY
Sr. Barbara E. Reynolds, Ph.D.

In a cooperative learning community, students work together with faculty to create a caring community. Within the classroom, an atmosphere of personal respect and integrity enable each member of the group to participate in class activities which facilitate learning. Stritch graduates are critical thinkers, ethical decision makers, and life-long learners.

Weekly Course Assignments

Class assignments will be posted here each week. The items listed on this page give a tentative outline of class topics for each week. Detailed assignment sheets will be linked from this page each week. The instructor will send an email message to class participants when a new assignment is posted. Students should regularly check their email and this assignment page throughout the semester.

Links to the study guides will be found at the end of this page.

Week 1: January 21 - 23 Data and Statistics

  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 1
  • Homework: Math autobiography, Florence Nightengale, find some data sets appropriate for each student's major
  • Benchmark Study Guide available

    Week 2: January 28 - 30 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods

  • Tuesday, January 28: Last day to drop/add classes
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 2
  • Thursday, January 30: Form permanent groups
  • Graded homework 1 available
  • Grading Rubric for graded homework
  • Benchmark 1: January 28 - February 7

    Week 3: February 4 - 6 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Methods

  • Benchmark Study Guide available
  • Graded homework 1 available
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 3
  • Problem Assignment

    Week 4: February 11 - 13 Introduction to Probability

  • Graded homework 1 DUE: Tuesday, February 11
  • Graded homework 2 available
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 4

    Weeks 5 and 6: February 18 - 20, 25 - 27

  • Graded homework 2 DUE: Thursday, February 20
  • Graded homework 3 available on Thursday, February 20
  • Tuesday, February 25: Test 1
  • Thursday, February 27: Group working session on Graded homework 3

    Week 7: March 4 - 6 Introduction to Probability Distributions

  • Graded homework 3 Due: Thursday, March 6
  • Test #1 corrections Due: Tuesday, March 11
  • Chapter 5: Discrete Probability Distributions

    Week 8: March 11 - 13 Probability Distributions for Discrete and Continuous Random Variables

  • Graded homework 4 available: Monday, March 10 Due: Tuesday, March 25

  • begin Chapter 6: Continuous Probability Distributions
  • more on Chapter 5: Discrete Probability Distributions
  • Reading Assignments: Chapters 5 and 6

  • Opportunity to improve your score for Benchmark #1 Deadline: Friday, March 14

  • Friday, March 14: Midterm

  • Spring Break is March 17 - 22.

    Week 9: March 25 - 27 Midsemester Reflections

  • Tuesday, March 25: Graded homework 4 DUE
  • Reading Assignment: Section 5.5: Poisson Probability Distribution
  • Thursday, March 27: Test #2

    Week 10: April 1 - 3 Probability Distributions & Sampling Distributions

  • Midterm Reflections DUE
  • Reading Assignment: portions of Chapters 5, 6, and 7
  • Graded homework 5 available by Thursday, April 3
  • Friday, April 4: Last day to withdraw

    Week 11: April 8 - 10 Estimating Population Parameters

  • Reading Assignment: Section 7.5 and Chapter 8
  • Problem Assignment
  • Graded homework 5 DUE Thursday, April 10

    Week 12: April 15 - 17 Hypothesis Testing

  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 9 (Sections 9.1 and 9.2)
  • Problem Assignment
  • Study Guide for Test #3 is available

  • Easter Break is April 17 - 21.

    Week 13: April 22 - April 24 Hypothesis Testing

  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 9
  • Problem Assignment
  • Thursday, April 24: Test #3
  • Graded homework 6 available

    Week 14: April 29 - May 1 Statistical Inference

  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 10
  • Problem Assignment
  • Benchmark Test #2 available
  • Wednesday, April 30: Honors Convocation -- All students are expected to participate in the Honors Convocation.

    Week 15: May 6 - 8 Relationships between variables -- Correlation and Regression

  • Graded homework 6 DUE -- Thursday, May 8
  • Benchmark 2: May 5 - 12
  • Reading Assignment: Section 3.5 Covariance and Correlation
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 14 Regression Analysis
  • Problem Assignment
  • Review for Final Exam

    Study Guides for Tests

    Study Guides for tests will be posted here about one week prior to the scheduled test.

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    This page was updated on May 5, 2003.