MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

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"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." - paraphrasing of H.G. Wells (British author) by a former president of the American Statistical Association.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli (19c British Prime Minister).

Class Resources

TEST-TAKING TIPS; REDUCING TEST ANXIETY: Test.html Test.pdf (pdf file)

FREE MATH AND SCIENCE WORKSHOPS! http://www.sdmesa.edu/STEMworkshops

CLASS GAMES, HANDOUTS

STATISTICS HANDOUTS

Law of Large Numbers (LLN)

Binomial Distributions

Central Limit Theorem (CLT)

Correlation

(Feel free to modify, copy, and distribute these handouts. Produced with Mathematica and Microsoft Word with MathType.)

WEB SITES, BOOKS, RESOURCES

TUTORIALS and STATISTICAL CALCULATORS

(Make your own hints! Do your own stats!)

TUTORIALS and STATISTICAL CALCULATORS: https://stattrek.com

STATISTICAL CALCULATORS: http://www.tutor-homework.com/statistics_tables/statistics_tables.html

STATISTICAL TABLES:

http://www.hawkeslearning.com/documents/statdatasets/stat_tables.pdf

(from Hawkes learning)

https://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/business-stat/StatistialTables.pdf

(You can reproduce these if you retain attribution.)

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Class Notes

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Notes for Test 1 (tentatively Lessons 1-10; this may change!):

Lessons 1-4

For fun: Polls! (last major revision: Spring 2009)

Lesson 5