SFSU Math 124 - Elementary Statistics Fall 2004

Instructor: Dr Ben Bolstad
email: bolstad_math124@bmbolstad.com
Office: SCI 387
Office Hours: 1-2pm Monday and Wednesday

Syllabus and other important notices

Syllabus and Course Outline
Message for all mathematics students from chair

Important Notice: the due date for the first Excel assignment has been extended to Sept 27.

Important Notice: there will be only 3 Excel assignments.

Excel help

How To: Read the data into Excel

How To: Compute summary statistics in Excel

How To: Making a scatterplot in Excel
Example data (Excel 2000 format)
Example data (tab delimited text)

How To: Drawing Boxplots

How To: Create Histograms

A Hint for Assignment 2

How To: Transform data
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)

Lecture Notes

DatePDF fileSuggested Readings
August 27, 2004Lecture 21.1
August 30, 2004Lecture 31.1
September 1, 2004Lecture 41.2
September 3, 2004Lectures 5 and 62.1
September 8, 2004See above2.1 cont, 2.2
September 10, 2004Lecture 74.1
September 13, 2004Lecture 84.2
September 15, 2004Lecture 94.2 continued
September 17, 2004Lecture 104.5 (not bayes rule)
September 20, 2004Correlation review
September 22, 2004Lecture 114.3
September 24, 2004Lecture 124.4
September 27, 2004Lecture 13
Normal Distribution problems
1.3
September 29, 2004ReviewMid term review
October 1, 2004Midterm test (No Notes)No Readings
October 4, 2004Midterm test solutionsNo Readings
October 6, 2004Lecture 141.3
October 8, 2004Lecture 153.1
October 11, 2004Lecture 16 a
Lecture 16 b
3.2
October 13, 2004Lecture 17 b
More info on polling failures
How Gallup conducts its polls
Dewey Defeats Truman Picture
A news story about potential undercoverage in this years polls
3.3
October 15, 2004Lecture 18
A sampling distribution simulation
3.4
October 18, 2004Lecture 195.1
October 20, 2004Lecture 205.2
October 22, 2004Lecture 21Chapter 5 problem solving session
October 25, 2004Lecture 226.1
October 27, 2004Lecture 236.2
October 29, 2004Lecture 24Problem solving session
November 1, 2004Lecture 258.1
November 3, 2004ReviewMidterm Review
November 5, 2004Midterm test (No Notes) No Readings
November 8, 2004Midterm test solutionsNo Readings
November 10, 2004Lecture 267.1
November 12, 2004Lecture 27 (Solutions to come)Problem solving session
November 15, 2004Lecture 28
Finding P-values using t-table
7.2
November 17, 2004Lecture 298.2
November 19, 2004Lecture 30 (Solutions to come)Problem solving session
November 22, 2004Lecture 3110.1
November 24, 2004
November 29, 2004Lecture 322.3
December 1, 2004No class (Advising day)
December 3, 2004Lecture 3310.1
December 6, 2004Lecture 342.4
December 8, 2004ReviewReview
December 10, 2004ReviewReview
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.

Homeworks

HomeworkProblemsDue DateSolutions
11.2, 1.12, 1.16, 1.24, 1.30, 1.46 Wed September 8, 2004.
21.59, 1.61, 2.11, 2.18, 2.20, 2.21Wed September 15, 2004HW2
34.13, 4.14, 4.20, 4.21, 4.30, 4.86Wed September 22, 2004HW3
44.96, 4.46, 4.52, 4.74, 1.87, 1.97Wed September 29, 2004HW4
51.104, 1.105, 3.1, 3.3, 3.23, 3.28Wed October 13, 2004HW5
63.38, 3.52, 3.55, 3.65, 3.67, 5.5Wed October 20, 2004HW6
75.3, 5.7, 5.12, 5.13, 5.31, 5.35Wed October 27, 2004HW7
86.6, 6.8, 6.44, 6.48, 8.19, 8.20Wed November 3, 2004HW8
97.26, 7.31, 7.34, 7.62, 7.69, 7.78 Wed November 17, 2004HW9
107.117, 8.37, 8.39, 8.41, 8.48, 8.76Fri December 3, 2004HW10
112.62, 10.16Mon December 6, 2004
Note that after Homework 2 the text of the problems will no longer be posted on the web. You are expected to find your own means of getting the problems.

Midterm Tests

MidtermDateDownloadable VersionsSolutions
Midterm 1Oct 1, 2004MWF 11-12 version
MWF 2-3 version
MWF 11-12 Solutions
MWF 2-3 Soutions
Midterm 2Nov 5, 2004MWF 11-12 version
MWF 2-3 version
Available after the test

Assignments

AssignmentDue DateData files
Assignment 1Sept 27, 2004cereals.dat (text format)
cereals.xls (Excel 2000 format)
Assignment 2Nov 3, 2004unemfive.dat (text format)
unemfive.xls (Excel 2000 format)
Assignment 3Dec 8, 2004Advertising.dat (text format)
Advertising.xls (Excel 2000 format)

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.
ClassDate and time of exam
124.12 MWF 11:10-12Monday December 13 at 10:45-1:15
124.11 MWF 2:10-3Monday December 13 at 1:30-4:00
ClassFinal ExamSolutions
124.12 MWF 11:10-12ExamWorked Solutions
124.11 MWF 2:10-3ExamWorked Solutions