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This is a new course in statistics being offered for students in the sciences that have taken calculus. We will focus the use of statistics in the experimental process: designing experiments, data analysis, and model building. We will cover the traditional introduction to statistics topics of descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and regression with an eye towards the experimental research process.
This course satisfies the MA 207 requirement for any major.
Prerequisite: calculus: either Math 121 or Math 131.
| Week | Date | Topic | Homework | Handouts |
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| Week 1 | Jan 10 | Statapult | Statapult Experiment | |
| Jan 12 | Introduction to Design of Experiments | |||
| Jan 14 | Comparing Two Data Sets | Lab 1: Comparing Two Data Sets | boxplot.xls, dotplot.xls, balldata.xls | |
| Week 2 | Jan 19 | Data Comparison | ||
| Jan 21 | Data Comparison and Sampling | Lab 2:Data Comparison and Sampling | Histogram Demo Sample Data Demo |
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| Week 3 | Jan 24 | Comparing Two Treatments | Lab 3: Comparing Two Treatments | |
| Jan 26 | Sample Distributions and Likelihood | |||
| Jan 28 | Sampling Distributions | Lab 4: Sampling Distributions | Sampling Distributions Demo | |
| Week 4 | Jan 31 | Bias and Efficiency |
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| Feb 2 | The Normal Distribution | |||
| Feb 4 | Testing for Normality | Lab 5: Are You Normal? | Lab 5 data | |
| Week 5 | Feb 7 | No Class - Flu Day | ||
| Feb 9 | No Class - Flu Day II | |||
| Feb 11 | Confidence Intervals | Lab 6: Confidence Intervals | Confidence Intervals Demo | |
| Week 6 | Feb 14 | Normal and Student's T Distribution | Student's T demo | |
| Feb 16 | Normal and Student's T Distribution II | |||
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| Week 7 | Feb 23 | No Class - Flu Day II | ||
| Feb 25 | Hypothesis Testing | Lab 7: Hypothesis Testing | ||
| Week 8 | Feb 28 | Hypothesis Testing - Forming and Testing | Where We Are | |
| Mar 2 | Hypothesis Testing | Hypothesis Testing Example | ||
| Mar 4 | Work on Lab 8 | |||
| Week 9 | Mar 14 | Two Sample Tests: Paired Data | ||
| Mar 16 | Two Sample Tests: Independent Data | |||
| Mar 18 | Two Sample Tests: Independent Data | |||
| Week 10 | Mar 21 | Two Sample Tests Lab | Lab 9: Two Sample Tests Lab | |
| Mar 23 | (Montclair Trip) Work on Exam 1 | Exam 1 | Lab 7 solutions Lab 8 solutions Hypothesis Homework Solutions |
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| Week 11 | Mar 30 | Binomial Distribution and Proportions | ||
| Apr 1 | Yet Another Sick Day | |||
| Week 12 | Apr 4 | Proportions | Lab 10: Proportions | In a Nutshell |
| Apr 6 | Proportions II | Lab 11: Bigger Proportions | ||
| Apr 8 | Proportions Wrap up - Intro to Design of Experiments | |||
| Week 13 | Apr 11 | Designing an Experiment, Part I | ||
| Apr 13 | Introduction to Regression | Lab 12: Regression data file |
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| Apr 15 | Regression, Part II | Lab 13: Regression Workout | ||
| Week 14 | Apr 18 | Multiple Regression and Modeling | Statpult Lab | |
| Apr 20 | Multiple Regression lab | Lab Statapult Lab, Part II | Multiple Regression Multiple Regression Excel file |
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| Week 15 | Apr 25 | |||
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| May 3 | Final Exam - Tuesday: 1:00 - 2:45 |
| Assignment | Percentage |
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| Homework, Labs, and In-Class Work | 50% |
| 2 Big Quizzes | 30% |
| Final Exam | 20% |
Your grade will translate to a letter grade as follows :