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Practice of Statistics, Stat 1450

Course Description (from the University): This course is designed to acquaint students with statistical methods used in gathering and analyzing data. The course includes sampling methods and data classification; descriptive statistics; percentiles and z-scores; basic concepts in probability; binomial and normal probability distributions; the Central Limit Theorem; estimating population parameters; hypothesis testing; linear correlation and regression; interval estimation and hypothesis testing with two samples; and chi-square tests of independence. STAT 1450 is intended primarily for students needing a college level, noncalculus based course in probability and statistics. Lecture: 3 hours – Lab: 2 hours Prerequisites: MATH 1116, MATH 1130, MATH 1148 or MATH 1150, minimum grade of “C” 

Syllabus -- in Word format

Homeworks
 

Important Dates
Exam I -- Thursday, September 12th key
Exam II -- Tuesday, October 8th key
Exam III--  Tuesday, november 5th  key
Final Exam -- Tuesday, December 3rd at 8 p.m. review/review key/review 2/review 2 key
 

see the syllabus for a more detailed calendar
 

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Math Adjunct Office # DH 448
My CSCC voicemail # 287-5377, ext. 1647
My CSCC email: bmccall2@cscc.edu
Fall office hours are 2-4 MTWR

Homeworks/Suggested Exercises

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Homeworks

Labs
(data files are in .xlsx format)

Lab #1
Lab #2
Lab #3 Data
Lab #4
Lab #5
Lab #6a Data
Lab #6b
Lab #7 Data
Lab #8a Data
Lab #8b
Lab #9a
Lab #9b Data
Lab #10
Lab #11

Calculator Guides:

TI 84 Entering Data
TI 84 Box and Whisker Plots
TI 84 Frequency Histograms
TI 84 Descriptive Statistics
TI 84 Descriptive Statistics Grouped Data
TI 84 Discrete Probability Distribution
TI 84 Discrete Probability Distribution (With Graph)
TI 84 Binomial Experiments
TI 84 Poisson Probability
TI 84 Normal Distribution
TI 84 Determine x or z
TI 84 Confidence Intervals
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - two proportions
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - Two Means Independent Samples
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - Two Means Dependent Samples
TI 84 Contingency Tables
TI 84 Correlation - LinRegTTest

Answer Keys

Quiz #1 -- key
Quiz #2 -- key
Quiz #3 -- key
Quiz #4 -- key
Quiz #5 -- key
Quiz #6 -- key
Quiz #7 -- key
Quiz #8 -- key
Quiz #9 -- key
Quiz #10 -- key

 

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PDF Graph Paper
Bad Graphs (Convention Speeches)
Visualizing Data Badly: 8 Examples
Correlation is not Causation: orginal article / handout
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