STAtistics
Monthly Schedule
(AP
Statistics, Period E)
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M
2/2/04 |
Groundhog Day. If for some
reason there is no class today, you need to keep working. There is a Homework
and a Half due tomorrow (70 minutes if you use placeholders and a time log). |
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T
2/3/04 |
HW due:
Finish reading Chapter 9, including reading notes; write #9.8, 9.9, 9.10,
9.19, 9.20, 9.30, 9.31 (you may wish to do 9.31 first), 9.35 in your own
words, 9.44, 9.47. Also answer the following questions: 1. There
are 312 students in the Upper School. Imagine that The Independent polls an SRS of 55 STA Upper School students in a
scientific survey to determine the percentage of students that own more than
one computer. Through painstaking research and follow-up, the staff finds
that 23 of these students do, indeed, own more than one computer. There is no
nonresponse, and response bias is low because the question is not sensitive.
Compute (a) the sample proportion of students that own more than one
computer, and (b) the standard deviation of this statistic. Page 473 and
footnote 3 will be very helpful to you. 2. Rules of
Thumb 1 and 2 are designed to ensure that (a) a sampling process is
reasonably close to independent, so that binomial techniques apply, and (b) the
normal approximation to the binomial distribution can be applied. Which rule
applies to which? Minimum working time: 70
minutes. If you have good placeholders and a time log, you may end after that
point. However, only §9.3 may count toward your reading time, because §9.1
and §9.2 should already be in your reading notes. As always, 70 minutes is a minimum time; students who wish to do
well should be devoting more time. |
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W
2/4/04 |
HW due:
Continue working (35 minutes minimum) on your previously assigned problems.
If yesterday’s HW review is any indication, you need to revisit many of these
problems. If there is a formula that addresses the question at hand, you need
to flip through the pages until you find the proper formula. Be sure to show
adequate notation and work; answers without sufficient support are not
acceptable. |
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Th
2/5/04 |
If you have not yet
finished the HW assignment, your required time commitment is another 35
minutes tonight. |
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F
2/6/04 |
Quiz on Chapter 9. |
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M
2/9/04 |
HW due:
Read through the end of §10.1 (pp. 513-528); write #10.1, 10.2, 10.4. |
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T
2/10/04 |
HW due:
Write #10.7, 10.8, 10.14, 10.16, 10.18, 10.24, 10.25. |
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W
2/11/04 |
HW due:
Read the first part of §10.2 (pp. 531-536) at least twice; write #10.27,
10.28. |
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Th
2/12/04 |
HW due: Read,
somewhat casually but with some reading notes, through the end of §10.2 (pp.
537-556); write #10.45, 10.48. For #10.48, you should follow the VHA(S)TPC procedure. |
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F
2/13/04 |
No school (faculty professional
day). |
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M
2/16/04 |
No school (holiday). |
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T
2/17/04 |
HW due:
Reread §10.2 more carefully. It will make more sense the second time through,
now that we know something about how to conduct hypothesis tests. Also write #10.44,
10.46, 10.49, 10.55, 10.56. Use VHA(S)TPC
for #10.49. |
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W
2/18/04 |
HW due:
Read §10.3; write #10.63, 10.64, 10.65. |
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Th
2/19/04 |
HW due:
Read §10.4. |
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F
2/20/04 |
Quiz on §§10.1-10.3. (This was originally scheduled for Thursday, but
was skillfully postponed by Zach’s strategic questions.) Content will
resemble the problems that we worked through during yesterday’s class. |
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M 2/23/04 |
Review day. Make sure you
are up-to-date on all HW, including the assignment from last Friday that we
did not have time to cover since most people took so long on the quiz. |
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T
2/24/04 |
The test originally scheduled
for today has been postponed to tomorrow so that we can gather statistics on
the Pancake Race. Before going to the race, we will do some additional
review. |
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W
2/25/04 |
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Th
2/26/04 |
HW due: Read
§11.1 (including notes, as always) and answer the following questions: |
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F
2/27/04 |
HW due:
Write #11.21, 11.22, 11.23, 11.26. |
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