Math 10 ~ Spring 2008
Elementary Statistics
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Week of March 26 - 28, 2008
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Wednesday:
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Friday:
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Week of March 31 - April 4, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set0 to get used to the Webwork interface.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete Webwork problems in set1. You will have time until Thursday morning to finish it.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete Webwork problems in set2 and prepare for the quiz.
Week of April 7 - April 11, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set3. Complete exercise 2.83 using matlab (show the code) and complete 2.88 and 2.115.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set4. You will have time until Thursday morning to finish it. As a suggestion, consider using matlab to automatize the computations.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problem in set5.
Week of April 14 - April 18, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set6. Download the file hw.mat (load it in matlab with the command "load hw" after you put the file in your working directory) and using matlab compute the regression line coefficients b0 and b1, the correlation coefficient r, and the determination coefficient r2.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set7 (#9 is optional). You will have time until Thursday morning to finish it.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problem in set8 (#10 is optional) and turn in the group session work that was handed last week.
Week of April 21 - April 25, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set9. Find out what was wrong with the study about the correlation between scientific success and amount of drinking of a scientist.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set10. You will have time until Thursday morning to finish it. Print and complete the additional assignment.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set11 (#4 is optional).
Week of April 28 - May 2, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set12.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Relax (no webwork for once)
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set13 (in matlab use the code "format long" to increase the precision of the output).
Week of May 5 - May 9, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set14.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set15 (#5 is optional).
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set16. Complete exercise 6.68 and 6.74.
Week of May 12 - May 16, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set17 (#2 is optional).
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set18.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set19. Complete exercise 7.96.
Week of May 19 - May 23, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: No homeworks due to Green Key weekend.
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set20.
Friday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set21.
Week of May 26 - May 28, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Nothing
Wednesday:
  • Study:
  • Do: Complete the Webwork problems in set22 (#3 is optional and for #4 you need the formula at page 376 of the book). Download the file hws.dat (Use the following commands to load the data: load hws.dat; h = hws(:,1); w = hws(:,2); s = hws(:,3); The command h(s==1) will represent the males heights, h(s==0) the females heights), w(s==1) the males weights and w(s==0) the females weights), compute the mean difference for heights and weights of males and females and conclude if there is enough evidence to prove that weights and heights are different for the populations from which the values were sampled.


Giulio Genovese
Last updated June 24, 2010 10:49:47 EDT