MATH 119: NOTES FOR QUIZ 3

MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

• NOTES FOR QUIZ 3

"So bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve." - film critic Roger Ebert reviewing Saving Silverman.

BIG FILE: Notes for Quiz 3 (see also the Lesson 19 and 20 links below)

SMALLER FILES (for faster downloads):

Lesson 17 (Section 6-2) : Standard Normal Distribution

Lesson 18 (Section 6-3) : Applications and Nonstandard Normal Distributions

Section 6-4 is discussed in my Section 6-5 notes.

Lesson 19 (Section 6-5) : Central Limit Theorem (CLT)

• CLT “HANDOUT”

Central Limit Theorem (CLT)

• CLT APPLET

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html

Fancier: http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html

Lesson 20 (Section 6-6) : Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions

• BINOMIAL HISTOGRAMS “HANDOUT” from before (SECTION 6-6)

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

• NORMAL APPROXIMATIONS TO BINOMIALS: APPLET (SECTION 6-6)

New: http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/normal_approx/index.html

Older: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/binom_demo.html

Section 6-6: Why Do Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions Work? (Optional - Interesting Theory)

See last page of 6-6 notes.

First Edition Notes (you don't need these)

In case you're curious, here are notes based on the 1^st Edition (our Chapter 6 was Chapter 5 then). A different table for the standard normal is used: http://www.kkuniyuk.com/M11905Old.pdf

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