Byrn Mawr College - Math 104, Probability and Statistics
Schedule
(updated 4/19/05)				Back to Math 104 page
Class	Date	Day	Text Section		Homework problems
period			(read before class)		(due this class)
1	17-Jan	Mon		Visual displays
2	19-Jan	Wed	Ch. 3	(histograms)
3	21-Jan	Fri		Describing "piles of data"
4	24-Jan	Mon	Ch. 4	Measures of "center"	Ch. 3 (pp. 50-53): 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
5	26-Jan	Wed		Measures of "spread"
6	28-Jan	Fri	Ch. 5	Normal distributions
7	31-Jan	Mon		More normal distributions	see handout (as revised)
8	2-Feb	Wed	Ch. 7	68% rule, drawing lines
9	4-Feb	Fri	Ch. 8	Correlations	SPSS assignment 1 (WORD)
10	7-Feb	Mon		More correlations	Ch.5 (pp 93-95) 11, 7  //  Ch.6 (Special, pp.105-6) 4, 11  //  Ch.5 (93-95) 8, 9  //  Ch. 4 (pp. 74-76) 7a,7b,7c*
11	9-Feb	Wed	9.1,9.3,9.5
12	11-Feb	Fri			SPSS assignment 2 (WORD)
13	14-Feb	Mon			Ch.8(134-138)1,2,3,4,7,8abc,9b   //   Ch.9(153-157)5,6,12  //  Ch.10(176) 1
14	16-Feb	Wed
15	18-Feb	Fri		in-class exam
16	21-Feb	Mon	10,11,12	Regression lines
17	23-Feb	Wed		regression errors	SPSS assignment 3
18	25-Feb	Fri		regression conditions
19	28-Feb	Mon	13		Ch.10(176-179)2,3,4abc // Ch.11(198-201)1,4a // Ch.12(213-216)1,2 // Ch.23(428-437)12 // Ch.29(567-578)10
20	2-Mar	Wed		mini-exam on normal distributions / more probability
21	4-Mar	Fri		Monty Hall Problem and other stories
Spring Break
22	14-Mar	Mon	14
23	16-Mar	Wed			Ch.13(234-236)4,6,7,8,9,10 // Ch.14(252-254)1,2,7(also w/o repl),9 // Ch.15special(p.268)18,19
24	18-Mar	Fri	15	binomial probabilities	SPSS assignment 4
25	21-Mar	Mon		(link to problem B)	Ch. 15(261-262)1,9abc // Ch.15special(p.268)20 // also prob. B
26	23-Mar	Wed	16,17, 18	"box models" -- expected values, standard errors, and the normal approximation
27	25-Mar	Fri			SPSS assignment 5
28	28-Mar	Mon			Ch.17(304-306)1,10,12 // Ch.18(327:329)1,2a,10,12 // Ch.21(p.393)12
29	30-Mar	Wed		review
30	1-Apr	Fri		in-class exam	in-class exam
31	4-Apr	Mon	19	sampling - good and bad
32	6-Apr	Wed		more sampling	exams returned
33	8-Apr	Fri	20	standard errors for polls	SPSS assignment 6
34	11-Apr	Mon	21	Confidence intervals for polls ("margin of error")	Homework 9 handout
35	13-Apr	Wed		Conf. ints. for averages
36	15-Apr	Fri			SPSS assignment 7
37	18-Apr	Mon		Hypothesis tests…	Ch. 21 (p.393ff) 1,2,3,4,13
38	20-Apr	Wed		(Is this result statistically significant?)	SPSS exam available
39	22-Apr	Fri
40	25-Apr	Mon			Ch. 26: 2, 3, 4, 5
41	27-Apr	Wed		course evaluation forms
42	29-Apr	Fri		class party / class picture	SPSS exam due
End of Classes