General Information | Syllabus | HW Assignments | WeBWorK |
Professor | Postings |
Lectures | Sections in Text | Brief Description |
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3/26 | Section 1.1,1.2 | Review test, sampling and experiment design. |
3/27 (x-hour) | Handout | Installation and introduction to matlab. |
3/28 | Section 1.3,2.2,2.3 | Simpson's paradox. Ways to display and graph data. |
3/31 | Section 2.7,2.8,2.9,2.10 | Measures of dispersions and boxplots. |
4/02 | Section 3.2,3.3 | Regression line and correlation coefficient. |
4/04 | Handout | Quiz, group session about Chebyshev inequality. |
4/07 | Section 3.4,4.2,4.3 | Sample space for an experiment and events. |
4/07 | Last day to add course; last day to drop without 'W' (till 4pm). | |
4/09 | Section 4.4 | Compound events. |
4/11 | Section 4.5 | Quiz, group session about conditional probability. |
4/14 | Section 4.6 | Permutations and combinations. |
4/16 | Section 5.2,5.3,5.4 | Random variables. Discrete probability distributions. Mean and variance of a random variable. |
4/18 | Handout | Quiz, Foundamental misteries of probability. |
4/21 | Section 5.5 | Binomial distribution. First midterm in the evening. |
4/23 | Section 6.2 | Continuous random variables. |
4/25 | Section 6.3 | Quiz, normal random variables and how to compute probabilities with matlab (see help for normrnd, normcdf, and norminv). |
4/28 | Section 6.4,6.6 | Group session about normal random variables and distributions and matlab practice (see help for binornd, binocdf, and binoinv). |
4/30 | Section 6.7 | Central limit theorem. |
5/02 | Section 6.5 | Quiz, z-values and group session about sample variance. |
5/05 | Section 7.2,7.3 | Estimation of a mean and hypothesis testing. |
5/07 | Section 7.5 | t distribution and t-values with matlab guided discovery. |
5/09 | Section 7.4 | Quiz, p-values. |
5/12 | Test review. Second midterm in the evening. | |
5/13 | Last day to withdraw from a course. | |
5/14 | Test review and example of a correlation study. | |
5/16 | Section 7.6 | Quiz, inference concerning a population proportion. |
5/19 | Section 8.2,8.3,8.4 | Inference concerning two population means. Dependent and independent samples. |
5/20 | Last day to alter grade limit filed under NRO. | |
5/21 | Section 9.2,9.4 | Discussion of Huntington's disease paper, inference concerning correlation. |
5/22 (x-hour) | Using graphics with matlab. | |
5/23 | Section 11.2 | Quiz, Chi-Square Test for Goodness-of-Fit. |
5/26 | Memorial Day: no class today. | |
5/28 | Section 11.3 | Chi-Square Test for Independence of Two Characteristic and short reading of paper about the brain. |
Giulio Genovese
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