MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
NOTES FOR QUIZ 1
"If you don't believe in random sampling,
the next time your doctor orders a blood test, tell him that he needs to take
all of it." - quoted by policy analyst Mark Weisbrot
in defense of statistical sampling analysis of Iraqi civilian deaths.
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SOME CALCULATOR TIPS
. Math119CalculatorTips.pdf
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These are very experimental typed +
handwritten notes. Later notes will be mostly handwritten.
BIG FILE: Notes for Quiz 1
CORRECTION ON PAGE 3.23: Sample SD is s, not sigma.
SMALLER FILES (for faster
downloads):
Lessons 1-4 (Chapters 1 and 2) : Intro, Statistical Graphics
Chapter 2 / 3 /
10 Handout - MINITAB output (handed out in class)
http://www.kkuniyuk.com/Math119MINITAB.pdf
How Bin (Class)
Widths Affect Histograms (play with applets!)
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Histogram.html
Lesson 5 (Section 3-2) : Measures of Center
Lesson 6 (Section 3-3) : Measures of Spread or Variation
CORRECTION ON PAGE 3.23: Sample SD is s, not sigma.
Lessons 7-8 (Section 3-4) : Measures of Relative Standing or Position; Boxplots
Lessons 9-10 (Sections 4-2, 4-3) : Probability Basics; Addition Rule
LLN HANDOUT
Law of Large Numbers
(Produced with Mathematica and Microsoft
Word with MathType.)
Lessons 11-12 (Sections 4-4,
4-5) : Multiplication Rule; More Conditional
Probability
EXTRAS:
Coming Soon: Our Sense of Probability; Monty Hall game (will be on
Class Games page)
Web links
Information on
the cognitive psychology we discuss in this class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky
(Tversky was one of my profs.)
The prof. with
the test where you could score -infinity:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/howard/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_A._Howard
(Another one of my profs.)
GREAT BOOKS!