STAT 100, Section 1: Statistical Concepts and Reasoning

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Date AssignedAssignment
Apr. 29 Continue to prepare for final exam on Monday from 4:40-6:30.
Apr. 27 Prepare for the final exam: Take the practice exams, stop by to pick up your old exams.
Apr. 25 Before Wednesday's class, read about the power of a test (p. 424) and about calculating a p-value for a chi-square statistic (last 5 slides of Apr. 22 lecture).
Apr. 22 Before Monday's class, read Chapter 25 and do exercises 1, 6, 8, 9, and 10 on pp. 479-480.
Apr. 20 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 24 and do exercises 1, 2, and 5 on pp. 460-462.
Apr. 18 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 23 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 8, and 16 on pp. 445-449.
Apr. 15 Before Monday's class, reread Chapter 22 and do exercises 3, 5, 6, 11, and 13 on pp. 428-429.
Apr. 13 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 22.
Apr. 11 Exam day.
Apr. 8 Before Monday's class, prepare for midterm exam #3.
Apr. 6 Before Friday's class, solve the practice problems WITHOUT looking at the answers.
Apr. 4 Before Wednesday's class, reread chapter 3 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 10 on pp. 51-52.
Apr. 1 Before Monday's class, read chapter 3.
Mar. 30 Before Friday's class, do exercises 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 15 on pp. 383-385.
Mar. 28 Before Wednesday's class, read chapter 21 and do exercises 1, 2, 3a, and 3b on pp. 402-403.
Mar. 25 Before Monday's class, reread chapters 19 and 20 and do exercises 5, 10 and 11 on pp. 368-369.
Mar. 23 Before Friday's class, read chapter 20 and do exercises 1, 2, 4, and 6.
Mar. 21 Before Wednesday's class, read chapter 19 and do exercises 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 10 on pp. 367-369.
Mar. 18 Exam day.
Mar. 16 Before Friday's class, prepare for exam #2.
Mar. 14 Before Wednesday's class, read about Simpson's paradox (pp. 229-231) and begin reviewing for Friday's exam.
Mar. 4 Have a great spring break!
Mar. 2 Before Friday's class, read chapter 18 and do exercises 1, 4, 7, 10, and 15 on pp. 347-349.
Feb. 28 Before Wednesday's class, reread chapters 16 and 17; review exercises previously assigned in these chapters.
Feb. 25 Before Monday's class, read chapter 17 and do exercises 2, 4, 6, 13, and 18 on pp. 330-333.
Feb. 23 Before Friday's class, finish reading chapter 16 and do exercises 19, 21, 22, and 25 on pp. 315-316.
Feb. 21 Before Wednesday's class, read part of chapter 16, pp. 297-304, and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 17 on pp. 311-315.
Feb. 18 Before Monday's class, read chapter 12 and do exercises 9, 11, 15, and 17 on pp. 235-238.
Feb. 16 Before Friday's class, read chapter 13 and do the exercises on the last two slides of the lecture notes.
Feb. 14 Before Wednesday's class, read chapter 11 and do exercises 4, 5, 8, 13, and 17 on pp. 213-215.
Feb. 11 Before Monday's class, reread chapter 10 and do exercises 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13 on pp. 196-197.
Feb. 9 Before Friday's class, read chapter 10.
Feb. 7 Exam day.
Feb. 4 Prepare for Monday's exam.
Feb. 2 Begin preparing for the exam on Monday, Feb. 7.
Jan. 31 Before Wednesday's class, do exercise 11 on p. 75; 11 on p. 142; and 4 on p. 158.
Jan. 28 Before Monday's class, finish reading chapter 5 and do exercises 7, 8, 10, 13 on pp. 101-102.
Jan. 26 Before Friday's class, read sections 5.1 and 5.2 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 5 on pp. 100-101.
Jan. 24 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 4 and do exercises 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 17 on pp. 73-77.
Jan. 21 Before Monday's class, do exercises 1,2,4,5,9 on pp 174-175.
Jan. 19 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 9 and do exercises 16 and 18 on pp. 159-160.
Jan. 17 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 8 and do Exercises 1,2,3,8,10 on pp. 156-159.
Jan. 14 Before Monday's class, finish Chapter 7 and do Exercises 5,6,10,12 on pp. 141-142.
Jan. 12 Before Friday's class, start to read Chapter 7 and do Exercises 1,2 on p. 141.
Jan. 10 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 1 and do Exercises 1,7,16,17 on pp. 10-13.