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Sections of Text Covered

Important Deadlines/Info/Homework

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Jan. 9

1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

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Jan. 11

1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods
1.5 Bias in Sampling

Online Homework (Sections 1.1) Due Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Jan. 16

2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data
2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data:The Popular Displays

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Jan. 18

2.3 Additional Displays of Quantitative Data
2.4 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data

Online Homework (Sections 1.4, 1.5) Due Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Jan. 23

3.1 Measures of Central Tendency
3.2 Measures of Dispersion

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Jan. 25

3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data
3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers

Online Homework (Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) Due Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Jan. 30

3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots

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Feb. 1

4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation
4.2 Least-Squares Regression

Online Homework (Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4) Due Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Feb. 6

5.1 Probability Rules
5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements

Exam 1 (covers chapters 1-4)

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Feb. 8

5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule
5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule

Online Homework (Sections 3.5, 4.1, 4.2) Due Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Feb. 13

6.1 Discrete Random Variables

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Feb. 15

6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution

Online Homework (Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4) Due Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Feb. 20

7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution
7.2 The Standard Normal Distribution

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Feb. 22

7.3 Applications of the Normal Distribution

Online Homework (Sections 6.1, 6.2) Due Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Feb. 27

8.1 Distribution of the Sample Mean
8.2 Distribution of the Sample Proportion

Exam 2 (covers chapters 5-8)

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Feb. 29

9.1 Constructing Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean When the Population Standard Deviation Is Known

Spring Break: March 5-10, 2012

March 2 is the midterm date. Midterm grades will be sent electronically after the second exam has been graded.

Online Homework (Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3) Due Sunday, Mar. 4, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Mar. 12

9.2 Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean When the Population Standard Deviation Is Unknown

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Mar. 14

9.3 Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion

Online Homework (Sections 8.1, 8.2, 9.1) Due Sunday, Mar. 18, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Mar. 19

10.1 The Language of Hypothesis Testing

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Mar. 21

10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean–Population Standard Deviation Known

Online Homework (Sections 9.2, 9.3) Due Sunday, Mar. 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Mar. 26

10.3 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean–Population Standard Deviation Unknown

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Mar. 28

10.4 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion

Online Homework (Sections 10.1, 10.2) Due Sunday, Apr. 1, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Apr. 2

11.1 Inference about Two Means: Dependent Samples
11.2 Inference about Two Means: Independent Samples

Monday, April 2nd, is the last day to withdraw with W. After this date, an A-F grade will be assigned.

Exam 3 (covers chapters 9 & 10)

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Apr. 4

11.3 Inference about Two Population Proportions

Online Homework (Sections 10.3, 10.4) Due Sunday, Apr. 8, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Apr. 9

4.4 Contingency Tables and Association
12.1 Goodness-of-Fit Test

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Apr. 11

12.2 Tests for Independence and the Homogeneity of Proportions

Online Homework (Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3) Due Sunday, Apr. 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Apr. 16

13.1 Comparing Three or More Means (One-Way Analysis of Variance)

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Apr. 18

14.1 Testing the Significance of the Least-Squares Regression Model

Online Homework (Sections 4.4, 12.1, 12.2) Due Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 at 11:59 PM

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Apr. 23

Review

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Apr. 25

Last Day of Class

Exam 4 (covers chapters 11-14, etc.)