| Week | Date | Assignments | PD Readings |
CN Readings |
Topic | HW Exercises Collected on the following Monday |
| Part One: Understanding Data | ||||||
| 1 | W 1/23 | - | 1 | - | Introduction; The Role of Statistics | HW1 |
| M 1/28 | - | 2.1-2.3 | - | Collecting Data Sensibly | ||
| 2 | W 1/30 | 2.4-2.6 - |
1(p.1-7) |
Collecting Data Sensibly (continued) SPSS: Creating and saving a data file |
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| Part Two: Displaying Data | ||||||
| M 2/4 | HW1 due | 3.1-3.2 - |
1(p.7-12) |
Graphical Methods: Categorical Data & Stem-and-Leaf SPSS: Creating, saving, and printing an output file |
HW2 | |
| 3 | W 2/6 | QUIZ 1 |
- | 2(p.13-16) - |
SPSS: Stem-and-Leaf Displays
Return and Discuss HW1; QUIZ |
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| M 2/11 | HW2 due | 3.3(p.111-117) | 2(p.20-22) | Graphical Methods: Frequency Distributions; Histograms for Discrete Data | HW3 | |
| 4 | W 2/13 | - | 3.3(p.118-128) | 2(p.17-20) | Graphical Methods: Histograms for Continuous Data; Cumulative Frequency | |
| M 2/18 | HW3 due | 4.1-4.2 | - | Numerical Methods: Describing Center and Variability | HW4 | |
| 5 | ||||||
| W 2/20 | QUIZ 2 - |
- | 4(p.39-45) |
Return and Discuss HW3; QUIZ;
Numerical Methods: Describing in SPSS |
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| M 2/25 | HW4 due | 4.3 | 4(p.46-47) | Numerical Methods: Boxplots and Definition of an Outlier | HW5 | |
| 6 | W 2/27 | - | 4.4-4.5 | 4(p.49#11) | Numerical Methods: Interpreting Center and Variability | |
| M 3/4 | HW5 due | 3.4(p.133-137) | 4(p.47-48) | Bivariate Data: Scatterplots; Brief Review for Midterm Exam | HW6 (due M 3/25) | |
| 7 | W 3/6 | - | - | - | Midterm Exam | |
| M 3/11 | SPRING BREAK, NO CLASSES | |||||
| W 3/13 | ||||||
| M 3/18 | - | 5.1 |
3(p.33-34) - |
Bivariate Data: Scatterplots in SPSS Bivariate Data: Correlation |
HW6 | |
| 8 | W 3/20 | - | 5.2 |
5(p.54-56) - |
Bivariate Data: Correlation in SPSS Bivariate Data: Linear Regression |
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| M 3/25 | HW6 due | 5.3 | 15(p.165-171) | Bivariate Data: Assessing the fit of a line | HW7 | |
| Part Three: Probability Theory | ||||||
| 9 | W 3/27 | QUIZ 3 - |
6.1 |
- | QUIZ; More on SSTO and SSResid; Basic Probability |
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| M 4/1 | HW7 due | 7.1-7.2 | - | Population Distributions: Introduction, Uniform, Triangular | HW8 | |
| 10 | W 4/3 | - | 7.3(to p.358) | - | Population Distributions: Standard Normal | |
| M 4/8 | HW8 due | - | 8(p.82,83,86) | Population Distributions: Standard Normal (in SPSS) | HW9 | |
| W 4/10 | RESEARCH DAY - NO CLASSES | |||||
| 11 | M 4/15 | - | 7.3(p.358-364) | 8(p.83-85) | Population Distributions: Other Normal | |
| W 4/17 | QUIZ 4 | - | - | Return and Discuss HW8; QUIZ; Review of Normal Distributions | - | |
| Part Four: Analyzing Data | ||||||
| 12 | M 4/22 | HW9 due | 8.1-8.2 | 9(p.93-98) | Sampling Distribution for a Sample Mean | HW10 |
| W 4/24 | - | - | Sampling Distributions in SPSS; Introduce Confidence Intervals | |||
| 13 | M 4/29 | HW10 due | 9.3(p.431-432) | 10(p.103-106) | Confidence Intervals for μ: with σ known | HW11 |
| W 5/1 | QUIZ 5 | - | - | Go Over HW10; QUIZ; Go Over CI in SPSS; Course Evaluation | ||
| 14 | M 5/6 | - | 9.3(p.433-441) | - | Confidence Intervals for μ: with σ unknown, determining sample size | |
| W 5/8 | - | 10.1,2,4 | - | Hypothesis Tests: Introduction, For a Population Mean | ||
| 15 | M 5/13 | HW11 due | ||||
| W 5/15 | - | |||||