MTH 145 - Introduction to Statistics for Biology Students

  Sec. 8. CH 149 MTWR 12:05-1:00 & Sec. 10 CWH CH149 MTWR 1:10-2:05

Instructor: Dr. Jeff Baggett
Office: 1026 Cowley Hall
Phone: 785-8393
my schedule and office hours

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  Week 14
12/4 Quiz 11
12/3 11.1 Hyp Tests for a population proportion - HW: Ch. 11: 1,2,3
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
12/2 10.2 Correlation analysis (descriptives) - HW: Ch. 10: 6, 9ab
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
12/1

10.1 Linear Regression (descriptives) - HW: Ch 11: 2, 5
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Exam 3 Solutions (Version A, Version B)

 
Week 13
11/27 No class
11/26 No class
11/25 Exam 3 (Version A, Version B)
11/24 Quiz 10 Solutions
  Week 12
11/20

Questions (no class notes) + Quiz 10
Exam 3 Review Sheet

11/19 Mean separation techniques for post-ANOVA analysis
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 9 Solutions
11/18 Anova handout + example. HW: Chapter 8: 2,4,8
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/17

Introduced ANOVA from Chapter 8
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
  Week 11
11/13 7.4, 7.6, 7.7 Paired Samples/Differences
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 9
11/12 7.5 Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, intro to 7.4, 7.6, 7.7 (we'll do these last three as one section)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/11 7.3 t-CI's for differences of two means
12:05 notes, 1:10 notes
11/10 7.2 t-tests for comparing two means
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
see end of notes for HW assignment
Quiz 8 Solutions
  Week 10
11/6 7.1 F-test for comparing two variances
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Homework: Do Ch. 7, #2 and #3 as comparing variance (instead of mean) problems - solutions.
Quiz 8
11/5

6.6 Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Pop. Median
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
see notes for HW

11/4 6.5 CI's for Pop. Median based on Sign Test
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/3 6.4 Sign Test for Population Median
Homework Set for 11/3
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Solutions to Test 2: Version A, Version B
Solutions to Quiz 7
  Week 9
10/30 No new material. Answered questions.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Group Quiz 7
10/29 "6.2.5" Assessing Normality
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
homework set is at the bottom of notes
10/28 6.1 T-test for mean and 6.2 Chi-square test for variance
HW: Ch. 6: 1-6, 22, 28
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/27 Exam 2 - Day 2!
Test 2A, Test 2B
  Week 8
10/23 Exam 2
10/22 Exam 2 Review - bring your book, calculator, formula sheet tomorrow.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10.
10/21

Quiz 6 Solutions

Book Problems for test 2 (I don't advocate doing all of these, but these are problems that are over topics that we've covered.  The mix of problems is also different from what will appear on the test.)

Chapter 3: 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 41

Chapter 4: 1-22

Chapter 5: 1, 6, 7, 8

Chapter 6: 2c (z-test), 3a(z-test), 4 (z-test), 6 (z-test) [actually all of these should be done with a t-test, but we haven't learned that yet, you are approximating the answers using the z-test]

Today in Class we went over HW from yesterday, did an example of calculating power. You should finish HW from yesterday (ALL problems)
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10
10/20 Hypothesis Test Logic and Errors
Homework Sheet
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
  Week 7
10/16

Quiz 6
z-test for a population mean, see class notes for HW.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/15 Introduced Ch. 5 and 6 Hypothesis Testing, no new homework (Catch Up!)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/14 Finished 4.5
HW: finish yesteday's sheet + CH 4: 20, 21 (with 21 use phat = .5, and phat = .8 for two different estimates)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/13 Went over Quiz 5 (solutions).
Continued 4.3 and 4.4including some material not in 4.3 (determining sample size for desired margin of error)
HW Sheet for Today (includes a couple of problems not in book)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
  Week 6
10/9 Quiz 5
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10/8

Intro to 4.3
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10/7

4.1/4.2
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10/6 Finished 3.6 (new homework - see notes)
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Quiz 4 Solutions
  Week 5
10/2 Answered Questions from 3.5/3.6 - no new Homework.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 4
10/1 3.5/3.6 Normal Random Variables, HW: CH 3: 2, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
9/30

3.4 Continuous Random Variables, HW: see sheet handed out in class
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10

9/29 Exam 1 Solutions (Version A, Version B)
Finished Binomial R.V. from 3.2, introduced Poisson R.V. from 3.3 - see Class Notes for HW.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
  Week 4
9/25 Exam 1 (Version A, Version B)
9/24

Review for Exam 1. (Review sheet if you want it - really just a laundry list of topics!)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10

9/23

Finished 3.1 and Begin Section 3.2 (Binomial Random Variable). See notes for HW.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10.

9/22 Went over Quiz 3 (Solutions.)
Section 2.5 (Genetics) and most of Section 3.1 (Discrete Random Variables)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10.

 

 Week 3
9/18

Finished 2.3/2.4. Assignment is to finish yesterday's homework sheet.
Quiz 3 is now "take home" and is due in my office (1026 Cowley) by 11am Friday 9/19.
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10

9/17 More on 2.3/2.4. Homework sheet.
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10
9/16 Finished 2.2. Started 2.3/2.4. Assigned Ch2: 9,11,12,15
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10
9/15 Answered questions from 1.10. Went over quiz 2 (solutions). Assigned 2.1 as reading (will be on Quiz 3). Started 2.2 (HW: 1-8).
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10.
  Week 2
9/11

Finished 1.10. See class notes for new HW.
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Quiz 2
9/10

Finished 1.9. HW - finish handout from yesterday. Quiz tomorrow.
Class notes 12:05, Class notes 1:10.

9/9 Finished 1.8
HW was on handout today (here is a copy) - don't do problems about boxplots yet
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9/8

Finished 1.6, 1.7
HW: CH 1 - 7, 10, 14
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Quiz 1 Solutions
  Week 1
9/4

Finished 1.5
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Homework - finished sheet from Monday 9/2
Quiz 1

9/3 Answered questions from homework
Started 1.5
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
9/2

Syllabus
NY Times Summary of Alcohol and CVD article, Original article from Archive of internal medicine
Talked about 1.2-1.4
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Homework sheet for Tuesday/Wednesday

  Finals
FINAL 12/15, 2:30-4:30, location to be announced