STAtistics Monthly Schedule

(AP Statistics, Period F)

F 11/1/02

No school.

 

M 11/4/02

HW due: Project leaders should e-mail me with an updated set of milestones for Project #1A. Everyone else has a long weekend with no homework. Happy Halloween!

 

T 11/5/02

HW due: Read to the end of Chapter 4 and write problems #4.61 and 4.66. The challenge, of course, is to resolve the problem in #4.61. Hint: What is the inverse of an inverse square function of the form y = k/x2? (The inverse is not a squaring function.)

 

W 11/6/02

HW due: #4.58 or 4.60 (your choice), plus #4.64. Make sure you have read to the end of Chapter 4 if you have not already done so. There may also be a 10-point equipment check.

 

Th 11/7/02

HW due: Finish #4.58, 4.60, and 4.64 (all three, in clean form, ready to hand in if necessary).

 

F 11/8/02

HW due: #4.58, 4.60, 4.64 will be collected and graded. Use the results of yesterday’s class discussion to correct and clarify your work.

In class: The general purpose of performing inverse transformations on your yi data.

 

M 11/11/02

HW due: Finish the exercise that we began in class Friday. With the data set

{4.5, 5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6, 6.5, 7, 7, 7, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 8.5}

stored in L1, set L2 to be your percentiles and L3 to be the inverse normal. Hint: You can use

seq(100/28+X*100/14,X,0,13,1)®L2

to create the percentiles quickly. You will then have to do some fiddling and adjusting, or perhaps manual entry, to get L3 to work properly. You may even have to—gasp—crack open the manual that came with your TI calculator. Then make a scatterplot of L1 vs. L3, which should be roughly linear, and compare the result with the NQP of the original data set. I will examine your calculator on Monday to make sure you have completed this assignment.

If you are reasonably proficient with a calculator, you can complete this small project in about 5 minutes. If you are not proficient, please form an alliance with one of your classmates!
 

T 11/12/02

HW due: Read §5.1 and e-mail me your response to the class survey (p.245). Format your response as an ordered 7-tuple. There may be a short comprehension quiz.
 

W 11/13/02

HW due: E-mail your ordered 7-tuple! Less than half the class complied with this assignment that was due yesterday. It will be accepted today for partial credit. No additional written HW.
 

Th 11/14/02

HW due: Read §5.2. This is in some ways the trickiest material of the entire year (not to read or to understand, but to implement).
 

F 11/15/02

HW due: #5.22, 5.24, 5.25, 5.44.
 

M 11/18/02

Review for test.

 

T 11/19/02

Test on Chapter 4, §5.1, §5.2, and all topics discussed in class (including the Rule of 72).
 

W 11/20/02

HW due: Take-home test problem.
 

Th 11/21/02

HW due: Read §5.3. In class, we will finish §5.2 and will begin §5.3.
 

F 11/22/02

Quiz on §5.3: a 4-point check for basic knowledge of how to conduct a simulation using the random digit table (Table B).
 

M 11/25/02

HW due: #5.80. Do the first 20 repetitions manually, i.e., using Table B. You need not gather data from 4 other classmates; one other will suffice, and if you cannot find a classmate, you may use data generated by your calculator (write a short program on the TI-83 to simulate the process).
 

T 11/26/02

HW due: Generate several solid ideas for experiments that you would be interested in performing. Write your ideas down or fix them firmly in your mind so that you can discuss them coherently when called upon in class.
 

W 11/27/02

No class. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

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