MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

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• NOTES FOR QUIZ 2

“Standard Deviation Not Enough for [Eccentric] Statistician” - PC paraphrasing of a headline from The Onion (July 26, 2000)

BIG FILE: Notes for Quiz 2 (see also the Lesson 16 links below)

SMALLER FILES (for faster downloads):

Lesson 13 (Section 4-6) : Counting (revised 2/25/08)

Lesson 14 (Section 5-2) : Random Variables

Lesson 15 (Section 5-3) : Binomial Distributions

• BINOMIAL HISTOGRAMS “HANDOUT”

Binomial Distributions (Produced with Mathematica and Microsoft Word with MathType.)

Lesson 16 (Section 5-4) : Mean, VAR, and SD for Binomial Distributions

• MONTY HALL ANALYSIS!

Math119MontyHallAnalysis.pdf (for Section 4-3 on binomial probability distributions; not including results from this semester)

• FUN WITH PASCAL'S TRIANGLE

QUINCUNX ("PLINKO") APPLETS AND SITES

http://www.jcu.edu/math/isep/Quincunx/Quincunx.html (This applet's better.)

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/java/stat/GaltonMachine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine (Wikipedia article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx (Wikipedia article)

The Beauty of Pascal's Triangle

http://www.mathsisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html

See also Chaos and Fractals by Peitgen, et al.

The Magic of Pascal's Triangle (Plinko from The Price is Right and Word Jumbles)

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