Tutor Lab and Office Hours
I will be in my office (Rood 3371) 10:00 - 12:00 Mon-Thur, or you can call/email to schedule an appointment outside of
these times. I am happy to field any questions or concerns you might have. I would however ask that if you are seeking help on
topics from class that you make the book and the tutor lab your first resources. The tutor lab times are:
Mon: 11:30 - 1:30
Tue: 1:00 - 3:00
Wed: 11:30 - 1:30
If you miss class: My office should not be your first step. I would recommend that you first read the book
and/or talk to a classmate, then use the tutor lab if you want further help. If you come to my office I will expect
that you were either in class or took steps to catch up prior to coming to me.
What we have covered:
- Sept 9 : Syllabus & Policy Statement, Sections 1.1 and 1.2
- Sept 14 : Sections 1.3 and 1.4, summarizing categorical and numerical data, skewness/symmetry
- Sept 16 : Chapter 1 exercises (solutions posted), started talking about Chapter 2, surveys and sampling.
- Sept 21 : Briefly recapped what we had already covered on Chapter 2 and finished the chapter (exercise solutions posted). Started Chapter 3: Location and Spread.
- Sept 23 : Finished talking about chapter 3: location and spread. Went over most of the chapter 3 excercises (solutions posted), and previewed chapter 4: finding probabilities.
- Sept 28 : Chapter 4: Normal and Binomial probabilities, several exercises.
- Sept 30 : Several more exercises from Chapter 4 and covered Chapter 5 and some exercises.
- Oct 5 : Chapter 6 and several exercises.
- Oct 7 : Review of the material we've covered so far.
- Oct 12 : Exam 1
- Oct 14 : Started chapter 7: Confidence Intervals.
- Oct 19 : Reviewed basis of confidence intervals, did some examples, and talked about 2-sample Independent CI with some examples.
- Oct 21 : Went over TI-83/84 program which calculates necessary sample size for obtaining specified margin of error. Also introduced 2-sample Paired CI.
- Oct 26 : Went over Paired CIs further, talked a little about how to choose between Paired vs Independent. Went over 1 and 2 sample CIs for proportions.
- Oct 28 : Started Chapter 8: Hypothesis tests. Went over the general idea and worked through an example for 1-sample t-test.
- Nov 2 : Open review day.
- Nov 4 : Review of hypothesis test material, and progressed into 2-sample hypothesis tests for the mean.
- Nov 9 : Type I/Type II Error, critical values for hypothesis tests.
- Nov 11 : Review of material for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
- Nov 16 : Exam 2
- Nov 18 : Covered Chapter 9: Chi-square test of Independence
