MTH 145 - Introduction to Statistics for Biology Students

  Sec. 12. CH 149 MTWR 12:05-1:00 & Sec. 14 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 11
11/19 Exam 3
11/18 Exam 3 Review Day
Questions from Homework
Exam 3 Review Sheet
11/17 6.5 One Sample Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test & 6.4 Sign Test CI
Class Notes
The Lecture is divided into two parts of about 25 minutes each:
Part 1 - Sign Test CI - Flash Format (needs Flash Player, should be available throughout campus and on most browsers)
Part 2 - Wilcoxon Signed Rank - Flash Format
11/16 6.4 & 6.5 One Sample Sign Test
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 8 Solutions
Homework Sheet
  Week 10
11/12 Introduced Sign Test for Pop. Median
Quiz 8
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/11 Assessing Normality (Handout)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/10 T-test for mean and Chi-square test for variance
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
HW Chapter 6: 1-6, 22,28
11/9 Blank notes (t-test for mean and chi-square test for variance)
Went over Test 2 (solutions handed out in class)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 7 Solutions
  Week 9
11/5 12:05 Class - Types of Errors + Quiz 7.
1:10 Class - Types of Errors + T-test + Quiz 7.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 7
11/4 Worked HW problems.  Talked about errors in hypothesis testing.  Do problems 2-5 from Homework sheet (handed out in class).
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
11/3 Examples of z-tests for mu
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
HW: Chapter 6 - 2c, 3a , 4, 6 (pretend sigma is known as needed)
11/2 Intro. to Hypothesis Testing: z-test for a population mean
Blank Notes for Today
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
  Week 8
10/29 Exam 2
10/28 Exam 2 Review Sheet
10/27 Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
No new topics
10/26 Finished Chapter 4
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Homework Sheet
  Week 7
10/22 meaning of confidence, Quiz 6, in the 12:05 section we covered CI's for population variance.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/21 t-intervals for a population mean - HW: 2, 4, 7, 9 (redo these as t-indervals)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/20 4.3 confidence intervals (introduction) - HW: 2, 4, 7, 9 (treat these as z-intervals for mu, pretend that sigma is known with sigma = s)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/19 4.2 + HW Ch 4: 1,3,5,6
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 5 Solutions
  Week 6
10/15 Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Talked About 4.1 - no new homework yet.
Quiz 5
10/14 3.6 Normal approximation to the binomial (HW - Chapter 3 - 18,20) + beginning of Chapter 4 - sampling distributions
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/13 3.5/3.6 Continued.  Same Homework.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/12 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
Went over Quiz 4 (solutions handed out in class, no digital version available).
  Week 5
10/8 3.4 Continous R.V.'s finished + Quiz 4.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
HW problems were on sheet handed out in class:
10/7 3.3 Finished Poisson R.V. add chapter 3 problems 6,10,38.
Started 3.4 Continuous Random Variables
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/6 3.2 Finished binomial - HW: 13, 21, 30, 31, 40a, 40f
began 3.3 Poisson R.V.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
10/5 Went over Exam 1 - solutions handed out in class (no digital version)
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Went over Binomial Probability Distribution - Section 3.2 - HW: 3, 5e, 7e, 8, 9
  Week 4
10/1 Exam 1 Version A / Version B (links coming soon)
9/30 Exam 1 Review Sheet
No Class Notes as the laptop is having troubles.
Don't forget formula sheet (only formulas, no definitions or examples) and calculator.
9/29 3.1 HW 27 29
Class Notes
Exam 1 is Thursday and includes material through 3.1
9/28 2.5 HW 19 21 23 25
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10 (the notes for 1:10 are more complete due to technical troubles in the 12:05 class)
Quiz 3 Solutions
  Week 3
9/24 2.3/2.4 finished
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Finish HW Sheet
Quiz 3 (due by 4pm tomorrow - do your own work)
9/23 2.3/2.4 continued
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
HW Sheet (you won't be able to do all of the problems yet, part of the assignment is to figure out which ones make sense!)
9/22 2.1,2.2, began 2.3
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
HW - Ch. 2: 1-9.
9/21

Finished 1.9, 1.10. HW - finish HW sheet.
Tomorrow chapter 2.
Class Notes (both sections)
Quiz 2 Solutions

  Week 2
9/17

Nearly finished 1.9 - do most of yesterday's homework sheet except problems that mention 30-300 rule.
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Quiz 2

9/16 Section 1.8
Homework sheet
Today's homework: do problems 17, 18, 19, 24 from Chapter 1 and problems 3 and 4 from the sheet linked above
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
9/15 Section 1.7
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Cookie Monster Metal Video
9/14 HW: Chapter 1: do problems from 1-7, 10, 14 that haven't been done yet
Section 1.6
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Went over Quiz 1 (solutions)
  Week 1
9/10 Finished 1.5
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Homework - finish sheet from Monday 9/8
Quiz 1
9/9 Answered questions from homework
Started 1.5
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
9/8

Syllabus
Talked about 1.2-1.4
Class Notes 12:05, Class Notes 1:10
Homework sheet for Tuesday/Wednesday

  Finals
FINAL 12/17, 7:45 am - 9:45 am, location to be announced