Syllabus
Course Objectives
Math 107 is an introductory level course in statistics. While many students who take this course are taking it as a prerequisite for later coursework in their major, a significant number of the students taking this course are simply taking it to fulfil the quantitative general education requirement. My goal is to make this course useful and rewarding for both audiences.
Course Structure
This course will be organized as a standard lecture course. We will be covering roughly one chapter a week. My lectures will be based fairly closely on the text. If you miss a class, you will be responsible for reading the section we covered in that class.
We will be having two midterm exams and a final. In addition to the major exams, there will be a short in-class quiz roughly once a week.
Text
The text for this course is Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 4th Edition, David S. Moore and George P. McCabe, 2002, W.H. Freeman and Company
The textbook has a very helpful web page: www.whfreeman.com/ips4e
Web Site
I will be maintaining a course web site at www.lawrence.edu/fac/greggj/math107.html. All of the examples I show from my laptop in class will be available at that web site.
Grading Policy
Your grade will be based on two midterm exams, quizzes, and a final exam according to the following weightings.
Short quizzes 30%
Midterm exams 20% each
Final exam 30%
Office Hours
My office hours this term are from 1-3 MTWF and 3-4 Th. If you can not come in at one of these times, please talk to me about alternate times. My office is Briggs Hall 413. You can reach me at extension 6736 or via e-mail at greggj@lawrence.edu.
Detailed Course Schedule
|
Date |
Topics |
Sections |
|
M -March 31 |
Introduction, Graphs |
1.1 |
|
W - April 2 |
Numerical summaries, Normal distribution |
1.2, 1.3 |
|
F - April 4 |
Scatter plots, quiz |
2.1 |
|
M - April 7 |
Correlation |
2.2 |
|
W - April 9 |
Regression |
2.3, 2.4 |
|
F - April 11 |
Correlation and causation, quiz |
2.5 |
|
M - April 15 |
Collecting data, experimental design |
3.1, 3.2 |
|
W - April 17 |
Sampling design |
3.3 |
|
F - April 19 |
Sampling distributions |
3.4 |
|
M - April 22 |
Review |
|
|
W - April 24 |
First Midterm |
|
|
F - April 26 |
Randomness, probability models |
4.1, 4.2 |
|
M - April 29 |
Random variables |
4.3 |
|
W - April 31 |
Mean and variance of random variables |
4.4 |
|
F - May 2 |
Sampling distributions for counts and proportions, quiz |
5.1 |
|
M - May 5 |
Sampling distribution of a sample mean |
5.2 |
|
W - May 7 |
Confidence intervals |
6.1 |
|
M - May 12 |
Significance testing, quiz |
6.2 |
|
W - May 14 |
Significance testing |
6.3 |
|
F - May 16 |
Review |
|
|
M - May 19 |
Second Midterm |
|
|
W - May 21 |
t test |
7.1 |
|
F - May 23 |
Comparing two means |
7.2 |
|
W - May 28 |
Inference for a single proportion, quiz |
8.1 |
|
F - May 30 |
Comparing two proportions |
8.2 |
|
M - June 2 |
Data analysis for two-way tables |
9.1 |
|
W - June 4 |
Inference for two-way tables |
9.2 |
|
F - June 6 |
Review |
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