MATH 119: NOTES FOR QUIZ 4

MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

• NOTES FOR QUIZ 4

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend.

"On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

- Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (quote found in Casella and Berger’s Statistical Inference)

BIG FILE: Notes for Quiz 4 (see also the links below)

SMALLER FILES (if you can’t get the big file):

Lesson 21 (Section 7-3 and some 7-2) : Estimating a Population Mean (if Population Standard Deviation Known)

Section 7-2: Confidence Intervals applet

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

Lesson 22 (Section 7-4) : Estimating a Population Mean (if Population Standard Deviation Unknown)

Lesson 23 (Section 7-2) : Estimating p (a Population Proportion)

Section 7-2: Polls Handout: Polls

• ARTICLES ON POLLS: Click here

Lesson 24 (Section 7-5) : Estimating a Population Standard Deviation or Variance

First Edition Notes (you don't need these)

In case you're curious, here are notes based on the 1^st Edition. A different table for the standard normal is used: http://www.kkuniyuk.com/M11906Old.pdf

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