Lectures	Sections in Text	Brief Description
3/26	Section 1.1,1.2	Review test, sampling and experiment design.
3/27 (x-hour)	Handout	Installation and introduction to matlab.
3/28	Section 1.3,2.2,2.3	Simpson's paradox. Ways to display and graph data.
3/31	Section 2.7,2.8,2.9,2.10	Measures of dispersions and boxplots.
4/02	Section 3.2,3.3	Regression line and correlation coefficient.
4/04	Handout	Quiz, group session about Chebyshev inequality.
4/07	Section 3.4,4.2,4.3	Sample space for an experiment and events.
4/07		Last day to add course; last day to drop without 'W' (till 4pm).
4/09	Section 4.4	Compound events.
4/11	Section 4.5	Quiz, group session about conditional probability.
4/14	Section 4.6	Permutations and combinations.
4/16	Section 5.2,5.3,5.4	Random variables. Discrete probability distributions. Mean and variance of a random variable.
4/18	Handout	Quiz, Foundamental misteries of probability.
4/21	Section 5.5	Binomial distribution. First midterm in the evening.
4/23	Section 6.2	Continuous random variables.
4/25	Section 6.3	Quiz, normal random variables and how to compute probabilities with matlab (see help for normrnd, normcdf, and norminv).
4/28	Section 6.4,6.6	Group session about normal random variables and distributions and matlab practice (see help for binornd, binocdf, and binoinv).
4/30	Section 6.7	Central limit theorem.
5/02	Section 6.5	Quiz, z-values and group session about sample variance.
5/05	Section 7.2,7.3	Estimation of a mean and hypothesis testing.
5/07	Section 7.5	t distribution and t-values with matlab guided discovery.
5/09	Section 7.4	Quiz, p-values.
5/12		Test review. Second midterm in the evening.
5/13		Last day to withdraw from a course.
5/14		Test review and example of a correlation study.
5/16	Section 7.6	Quiz, inference concerning a population proportion.
5/19	Section 8.2,8.3,8.4	Inference concerning two population means. Dependent and independent samples.
5/20		Last day to alter grade limit filed under NRO.
5/21	Section 9.2,9.4	Discussion of Huntington's disease paper, inference concerning correlation.
5/22 (x-hour)		Using graphics with matlab.
5/23	Section 11.2	Quiz, Chi-Square Test for Goodness-of-Fit.
5/26		Memorial Day: no class today.
5/28	Section 11.3	Chi-Square Test for Independence of Two Characteristic and short reading of paper about the brain.

Giulio Genovese
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