Statistics and Probability (with Sociology)

notes (old)

open office ref

Week18: 6/13/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	coke vs pepsi
tues	capture/recapture (need to do atleast 20 capture and recapture)
wed	confidence intervals (need bags of 200 and 40 samples of 20)
thurs	final day
frid

Week16: 5/30/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	memorial day
tues	confidence interval final project continued
wed	no class - graduation
thurs	final project presentation
frid

Week15: 5/23/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	Freak, confidence interval
tues	final project work
wed	sub day
thurs	sub day
frid	creating sample final project from data

Week14: 5/16/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	Scatterplots, Correlation coefficient look up countries	Fix up test4-Bring questions tomorrow
tues	Intro to Final Project, Example, Example2, Review data collection more correlation coefficient	Fix up test4-DUE TOMORROW
wed	test4 makeup, more on correlation
thurs	article Example, Example2 problem
frid	Freak Survey questions,

Week13: 5/9/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	10-11grades absent - movie day
tues	Combinations	hw23 p222/41-48
wed	Combination prob
thurs	Test2 review 1,2
frid	Test2

Week12: 5/2/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	more on compound start blackjack
tues	video more blackjack
wed	intro to permutations	HW20 p221/finish 13, 14-26
thurs	combinations hand shakes and 3 groupies activity	HW21 p221/27-40
frid	combinations. yahtzee

Week11: 4/25/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	Finish chapter in freakonomics compound probability
tues	article compound notes	hw17 p209/11-17,21,29-37 [only odd]
wed	bday problem intro sample audio	hw18 p211/40-46 [those who won the bet dont have to do it]
thurs	reviewed compound starting counting rules permutation/combination link	hw19 p220/1-13
frid	quiz9 German tank problem

Week10: 4/11/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	monty hall simulator notes
tues	Monty Hall article nice day - outside to measure car data (ie gender/passengeR) compound probability
wed	article exp vs theoretical prob review problems	hw16 - p209/2-5,7,
thurs	peace state compound probability
frid	quiz8 movie freakonomics

Week9: 4/4/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	makeup day - look at infinite campus and hand in any missing work - if its on the computer email here, or submit to sub.
tues
wed	Start with probability Skim Read chpt 4-2 (in particular look at all examples) Work on hw together, due THURSDAY	To be handed in: HW 15 ->p185/1,5-25,29,32,35,36 (for the card problems, look at sample space on I know its a lot, but its all good practice. Work together and use Mr. K as a resource - he's good with this stuff.
thurs	see above	see above
frid	Quiz on probability - groups of 2

Week8: 3/28/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	article more on binomial read notes	HW13 p337/4-8
tues	article more on binomial Histogram Online questions short review powerpoint,	HW14 p337/9-13
wed	test2 review
thur	test2
fri	makeup day - look at infinite campus and hand in any missing work - if its on the computer email here, or submit to sub.

Week7: 3/21/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	article short review powerpoint, review coin flip Analysis of questions,	HW11 p316/7, 9,10,11,15,16
tues	Brandon's article review:Quiz5-more normal Continue pennies review coin flip online flipping	HW12 p318/23,26,27,28,29,30
wed	article short review powerpoint, review coin flip Analysis of questions normal distribution sleepers binomial distribution	finish prior nights hw
thur	Review activity - find mean/stand dev/histogram of coin flip Continuous vs. discrete Correction for Binomial Distribution 2 problem QUIZ6 Practice Problems - binomial distribution
fri

Week6: 3/14/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	History survey, article Histogram Online use this data (age of mother is new column) try to create a histogram. Normal distribution Visual,
tues	Powerpoint on normal distribution, Normal dist activities (p302/7-39 odd [normal dist table] notes: solving problems, more powerpoint	hw10 - finish p302/7-39
wed	births percentiles, normal dist continued - solving for z score from percent
thur	births percentiles, normal dist continued - solving for z score from percent
fri	Quiz5-more normal

Week5: 3/7/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	article position
tues	birth data more on percentile/relative position
wed	article - activity simplified charts birth data	HW9/ Using birth data find the 3rd,15th,50th,85th,97th percentiles for boys and girls separately.
thur	american family test1 review birth data
fri	test1 comp version	finish computer version by Tuesday (bring in questions monday) comp version

Week4: 2/28/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	Article Sample size activity
tues	finish Sample size activity and pt2
wed	sample standard deviation	hw8: p129/13(find range,variance and sd) p130/18
thur	article
fri	article measures of position sat data, act data

Week3: 2/14/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	article video stem and leaf plots, practice, quiz2 start central tendency	hw5 p110/5, 12,14
tues	survey, summary gas price data; find mean, median, mode standard deviation (gas price data; find mean, median, mode standard deviation gas link)	hw6 (1,2)
wed	liberal vs. conservative, stats more standard deviation; with frequency distributions together: start with this data	hw7 p130/18,23
thur	Project 1
fri	continue on Project 1 quiz3 on central tendency and spread

Week2: 2/7/11

day	activity	assignment
mon	Article, Making frequency distributions, histogram in openoffice(or excel) using this data	Create a frequency distribution and histogram for this data: HW2 - p44/13,17
tues	stats map put in 04103 create histogram,frequency polygon, ogive, learn about summing, sorting using this data conduct survey (hair color)	In openoffice,
wed	article finish frequency polygon, ogive create pareto and pi graph from hair color data	HW3 -p59/15, 16
thur	article create pareto and pi graph from hair color data Using the data, make a timeline graph	HW4 -p77/1,9,12
fri	Quiz1 stem and leaf plots, practice, quiz2

Week1: 1/31/11

day activity assignment

mon Intro Video (update), Course requirements, intro activity (data)

tues
ice breakers,the way we were 2010, pre-test

wed snow day

thur
article: maine -oldest,whitest

white states
freq distribution colleges data

fill out survey

finish frequency and percent columns from freq distribution colleges data

fri
article: internet devices

more on freq distribution colleges data
HW1 p43/7,17,18(Just McGwire)