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Assignments

Topics refers to reading assignments in the Davis text. You may work at your own pace -- up to a point. Assignments are due no later than the date published below. You may send me assignments as soon as they are completed.

Dates in bold are formal class meetings in room 315 SR.

Lecture Topic Assignment Date Due
8/25/98 About this course

Hyptestat Online - Chapter 1 : Introduction to Statistics

Exercise 1 -- The InternetSept 3
8/27/98Measurement Theory

The Tyranny of the Mean
Experiment with the bin width of a histogram

Introduction to Works and Cricket

9/1/98Hyperstat Online - Chapter 2 : Describing Univariate Data

Measurements

Reporting SAT Scores

Exercise 2 -- Introduction to Statistics (acrobat)

You may wish to use the Computing Studio

Sept. 22
9/3/98 Presenting Data

Mean and Median

Curveball

Summary Statistics -- 1

Summary Statistics -- 2

Introduction to Probability

Exercise 3a -- DataDesk

9/8/98Hyperstat Online - Chapter 3 : Bivariate Statistics
Exercise 3b -- DataDesk Part II
Sept. 22
9/10/98Hyperstat Online - Chapter 4 : ProbabilityLets Make A Deal
9/15/98Hypterstat Online - Chapter 5 : Normal Distribution

Play With A Normal Distribution
Shape of the Normal Distribution

Area Under the Curve

Hyperstat Online - Chapter 6 : Sampling Distributions

Demonstration - Central Limit Theorem

Exercise 4 -- DataDesk - Central Limit Theorem

Sept 24
9/17/98Hyperstat Online - Chapter 7 : Point Estimation

Hyptestat Online - Chapter 8 : Confidence Intervals

Statistical Inference

Confidence Intervals

Demonstration - Confidence Intervals
9/22/98 Producing Data

Hyperstat Online - Chapter 9 : The Logic of Hypothesis Testing

Exercise 5 -- SamplingSeptember 29
9/24/98Hypterstat Online - Chapter 10 : Hypothesis Testing with Standard Errors

Hypterstat Online - Chapter 11 : The Power of a Test

Exercise 6 -- t-Test

t-test example -- 1

t-test example -- 2

October 6
9/29/98Graphical Perception

Constructing Graphs

Paradigm of Graphical Perception

Exercise 7 -- Chi SquaredOct 8
10/1/98Matrix Algebra The Correlation Coefficient

Plotting

10/6/98Correlation

Regression

Regression Calculator

Exercise 8 -- Least Squares

Regression Example -- 1

Regression Example -- 2

Regression Example -- 3

Regression Example -- 4

Oct 13
10/8/98Matrix Algebra II
10/13/98Distributions

Dot Charts

Exercise 9 -- Multiple Regression

Mult R Example -- 1

Mult R Example -- 2

Oct 22
10/15/98Scatter Diagrams
10/20/98Multivariate GraphicsExercise 10 -- Cluster Analysis

Cluster Example -- 1

Cluster Example -- 2

Nov 10
10/22/98Spatial Data
10/27/98CoPlotsExercise 11 -- Principal Components Analysis

DFA Example -- 1

Nov 10
10/29/98Dynamic Graphics 1 PCA Example -- 1

PCA Example -- 2

Nov 10
11/3/98Pitfals of Data Analysis
11/5/98Dynamic Graphics 2 Exercise 12 - Ratio Formation

Transformation Example -- 1

Transformation Example -- 2

Nov 17
11/10/98Time Series Graphics
11/12/98 Exercise 13 - PercentagesNov 19
11/17/98Displaying Variability
11/19/98Project
11/24/98ProjectALL Assigned Exercises Due
12/1/98Project
12/3/98Project Final Presentations
Final Project Distributed

As Of July 11, 1998.


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