SFSU Math 124 - Elementary Statistics Spring 2005

Instructor: Dr Ben Bolstad
email: bolstad_math124@bmbolstad.com Office: SCI 387 Office Hours: 11-12pm Tuesday and Thursday (or by appointment)

Syllabus and other important notices

Syllabus and Course Outline
Message for all mathematics students from chair
Publishers supplementary website for the textbook

Excel help

How to Load Data from tab delimitted text file
cereals.dat (practice file)

How to Draw a Histogram

How to Draw a Boxplot

How to Compute Summary Statistics

How to Draw a Scatterplot
ScatterplotData.dat (practice file in tab delimitted text file)
ScatterplotData.xls (practice file in Excel 2000 format)
Making better scatterplots

A Hint for Assignment 2

How to Transform variables
transform.xls (Excel 2000 format)
transform.dat (tab delimited text)
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

How to Find Regression Coefficients
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

How to Find Regression Coefficients using built-in Excel functions
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

How to Find Regression Coefficients using the Data Analysis Toolpak
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

How To Plot the Regression Line
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

How To Draw Residuals plots
A worked spreadsheet (Excel 2000 format)

Lecture Notes

Date	PDF file	Suggested Readings
Feb 3	Lecture 2
Feb 8	CLASS CANCELLED
Feb 10	Lecture 3 Histogram applet 1 Histogram applet 2 Histogram/Stem and Leaf applet	Section 1.1
Feb 15	CLASS CANCELLED
Feb 17	Lecture 4 Mean vs Median applet 1 Mean vs Median applet 2	Section 1.2
Feb 22	Lecture 5 Boxplot applet	Section 2.1
Feb 24	Lecture 6	Section 2.2
Mar 1	Lecture 7 Correlation Applet Correlation Applet 2 Correlation Applet 3	Section 2.2, Section 4.1
Mar 3	Lecture 8 Probability Applet	Section 4.1, Section 4.2
Mar 8	Lecture 9 Venn Diagram Applet Venn Diagram Applet 2	Section 4.2, 4.3, parts of 4.5
Mar 10	Lecture 10 Rolling Dice Applet 1 Rolling Dice Applet 2	Section 4.3, 4.4
Mar 15		Review for Midterm
Mar 17	Midterm	Midterm
Mar 29	Midterm Solutions Lecture 12 Normal Distribution Problems	Midterm Solutions Section 1.3
Mar 31	Cesar Chavez Day: No Class.
Apr 5	Lecture 13 Normal distribution Applet 1 Normal distribution Applet 2	Section 1.3
Apr 7	Lecture 14	Section 3.1, 3.2
Apr 12	Lecture 15 More info on polling failures How Gallup conducts its polls Dewey Defeats Truman Picture	Section 3.2, 3.3
Apr 14	Lecture 16	Section 3.4, 5.1
Apr 19	Lecture 17	Section 5.1, 5.2
Apr 21	Lecture 18	5.2
Apr 26	Lecture 19 Worked Problems	6.1
Apr 28	Midterm	Midterm
May 3	Lecture 20 Worked Problems	6.2
May 5	Advising Day: No Class
May 10	Lecture 21 Worked Problems	8.1
May 12	Lecture 22 Using the t-table to find P-values Worked Problems	7.1
May 17	Lecture 23 Worked Problems	7.2
May 19	Lecture 24	8.2

Please note that suggested readings for future dates are speculative and subject to change. Please notify me of any typos, or other mistakes in the lecture notes so that I might make any corrections. Note that to use the applets you will need to have a Java plugin for your browser.

Homeworks

Homework	Problems	Due Date	Solutions
1	1.4, 1.10, 1.15, 1.16, 1.27 (Draw histogram), 1.38	Feb 17	HW1
2	1.45, 1.49, 1.57, 1.59, 1.134	Feb 24	HW2
3	2.11, 2.18, 2.20, 2.21, 2.31	Mar 3	HW3
4	4.11, 4.18, 4.20, 4.21, 4.28, 4.96	Mar 10	HW4
5	Problems from Sheet, 1.93, 1.97, 1.103, 3.3, 3.7	Apr 7	HW5
6	3.12, 3.23, 3.28, 3.37, 3.52, 3.53	Apr 14	HW6
7	3.65, 3.66, 5.5, 5.7, 5.12, 5.13	Apr 21	HW7
8	5.31, 5.35, 6.6, 6.8	May 3	HW8
9	6.48, 6.49, 6.65, 8.2, 8.10, 8.19	May 12	HW9
10	7.34,7.35,7.70,7.74	May 19	HW10

Midterm Tests

Midterm	Date	Downloadable Versions	Solutions	Practice Tests
1	Mar 17	TTh 8:10-9:25 am version TTh 9:35-10:50 am version	TTh 8:10-9:25 am version TTh 9:35-10:50 am version	Version 1 (Solution) Version 2 (Solution)
2	Apr 28	TTh 8:10-9:25 am version TTh 9:35-10:50 am version	TTh 8:10-9:25 am version TTh 9:35-10:50 am version	Version 1 Version 2

Assignments

Assignment	Due Date	Data files
Assignment 1	Mar 15, 2005	body.xls (Excel 2000 format) body.dat (tab delimited text format) Text file describing variables Picture explaining some of the measurements
Assignment 2	Apr 19, 2005	umemfive.xls (Excel 2000 Format) umemfive.dat (tab delimited text format)
Assignment 3	May 17, 2005	2004cars.xls (Excel 2000 Format) 2004cars.dat (tab delimited text format) Text file describing variables Lecture material about regression

Click here for example assignments.

Final

Click here for the SFSU Final Exam Schedule. The following times have been taken from that webpage. The exam will be in the normal class room.

Class	Date and time of exam
124.06 TTh 8:10-9:25	Thursday May 26 at 8:00-10:30
124.07 TTH 9:35-10:50	Tuesday May 24 at 8:00-10:30

Practice/Example Finals
Version 1	Worked Solutions
Version 2	Worked Solutions

Spring 2005 Final Exams and Solutions

Version 1 for Section 6 Worked Solutions

Version 2 for Section 7 Worked Solutions