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 (if you cant get
the big file):
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)
Section 6-5:
Dice and the Central Limit Theorem (play with applets!)
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html
Lesson 20 (Section 6-6): Normal Approximations to
Binomial Distributions
Section 6-6:
Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions (play with applets!)
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 1st Edition (our Chapter 6 was
Chapter 5 then). A different table for the standard normal is used.