MATH 1530

MATH 1530 is a course in Applied Statistics. It will cover the ideas of the gathering and analysis of data, and concepts such as confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.

Course Syllabus 002
Course Syllabus 010

What was covered in class:

Date	Covered
8/31/09	002: Misleading Statistics 010: Helper-Hinderer Study Computer Simulation Worksheet
9/2/09	002: Helper-Hinderer 010: Misleading Statistics
9/4/09	Graphs for Categorical Data (Section 2-3) Worksheet Graphs for Numerical Data (Section 2-2) Worksheet Sorting Activity Other Graphs Florence Nightingale Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
9/9/09	Finish Histograms Measures of Center (Section 3-1)
9/11/09	More measures of center Standard Deviation Video of variance calculation
9/14/09	Empirical Rule Worksheet Z-scores
9/16/09	Percentiles (Section 3-3) Box Plots (Section 3-4) StatCrunch
9/18/09	Boxplot worksheet Probability (Section 4-1) Video of probability calculation for "and" statements.
9/21/09	More Probability (Sections 4-2 through 4-4) Worksheet Probability Video Independent Events Probability Video Dependent Events Probability Video "At least one"
9/23/09	Probability Distributions Roulette Worksheet
9/25/09	Binomial Distribution Worksheet Review sheet for Test 1
9/28/09	Review for Test 1
9/30/09	Test 1
10/2/09	Go over Test 1 Binomial Distribution Normal Distribution
10/5/09	The Central Limit Theorem (Section 6-3) Dice applet Worksheet
10/7/09	Approximating the Binomial with a Normal curve More Central Limit Theorem
10/9/09	Confidence Intervals for the mean, large sample
10/12/09	More Confidence Intervals Worksheet
10/14/09	More Confidence Intervals
10/16/09	Finding sample sizes for confidence intervals
10/21/09	Dr. Green sick, class cancelled
10/23/09	Review of what we know of Confidence Intervals so far Worksheet Confidence intervals for the difference between means
10/26/09	Practice for confidence intervals for differences Worksheet Intro to hypothesis testing
10/28/09	Null and alternate hypotheses Examples Test for one sample mean
10/30/09	More one sample mean worksheet
11/2/09	More one sample mean Review for test 1
11/4/09	Test 2 Table of t-values
11/6/09	Go over test Hypothesis testing for small sample means, large sample proportions
11/9/09	Hypothesis testing for two samples Worksheet
11/11/09	Complete worksheet from 11/9 Dolphin therapy problem Applet
11/13/09	Murderous Nurse Applet Email lying Worksheet
11/16/09	More randomization tests StatCrunch
11/18/09	More randomization tests worksheet
11/20/09	Two variable analysis Scatterplots Correlation Causation movie Worksheet
11/23/09	Scatterplots and correlation Correlation applet Water consumption example Interpretation of slope of lines.
11/25/09	Ball drop example Worksheet
11/30/09	More regression Worksheet
12/2/09	Hand out makeup assignment for missing classwork More regression
12/4/09	Review graphs, numerical summaries
12/7/09	Review Central Limit Theorem, Confidence Intervals
12/9/09
12/14/09	12:30-2:30 Final Exam for 1530-010
12/16/09	10:00-12:00 Final Exam for 1530-002