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Weekly Readings and Interactivities
Click to see
the Homeworks and their Solutions
The table below gives the readings and Interactivities
for the week. For example, for the first assignment:
- Read
Mind on Statistics Chapter 10.
- Interactively
work through Units B11 and B12 of Cyberstats.
- Complete
exercises 3 to 5 in Unit B11 of Cyberstats. Complete
exercises 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, and 13 in Unit B12 of Cyberstats. These
can, and should, be submitted online in Cyberstats.
- Complete
exercises 9.7, 9.8 and 9.44 from Chapter 9 of Mind on
Statistics. Also complete exercises 10.12, 10.23 and 10.25 from
Chapter 9 of Mind on Statistics. These can be submitted
online or on paper at the beginning of the lecture it is due.
Note: The complete list of exercises to hand for
home work is given under the above button. The table below lists the readings
and activities. It will be updated as the course goes along to keep track
of where we are at.
Assigned
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Text Sections or CyberStat Units
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Interactivities
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Related Exercises
see above link for Homework
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Monday
April 1
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Chapter 10: Estimating Proportions with Confidence
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None
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Exercises 12, 23, 25
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Unit B11: Sampling Distributions
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Uses practice 2
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Exercises 3, 4, 5
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Unit B12: Central Limit Theorem
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Basics practice 1 (2nd interactivity), Basics practice
3, Uses practice 2
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Exercises 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13 (all are related)
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Monday
April 8
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Unit C1: Confidence Intervals - The Concepts
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Basics 3
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Exercises 1, 2
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Unit C7: Tests and Intervals for Proportions (skip
material on hypothesis tests)
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None
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Exercise 11
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Monday
April 15
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Sections 11.1 to 11.4: Testing Hypotheses about
Proportions
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None
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Exercises (Ch. 11) 12*, 43
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Sections 12.1 to 12.4: More about Confidence Intervals
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None
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Exercises (Ch 12) 17, 42
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Sections 13.1 and 13.2: More about Significance Tests
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None
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Exercises (Ch 13) 3, 5, 40
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Unit C2: Confidence Intervals for the Mean
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Basics 3
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Exercises 1 to 6
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Unit C3: The Concepts of Hypothesis Tests
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None
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Exercises 9, 10
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Unit C4: Hypothesis Test for the Mean
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Basics 1
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Exercises 1 to 8 (all are related)
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Unit C6: t-Tests and Intervals
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Basics 2 (all three interactivities)
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Exercises 16 to 19
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Unit C7 (finish from last time)
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None
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Exercises 21 to 24 (do 22 by hand or with DataTools)
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Monday
April 22
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Sections 11.5 to 11.7; Section 13.6: What can go wrong
in hypothesis testing; types of errors
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None
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Exercises 11.21, 11.26, 13.29
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Sections 12.5 (skip "pooled" methods), 12.6:
Confidence intervals for difference in means and difference in proportions
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None
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Exercises 12.28, 12.30
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Sections 13.3 (skip "pooled" t-test), 13.4,
13.5: Tests for difference in means and difference in proportions;
Relationship between tests and confidence intervals
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None
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Exercises 13.10, 13.43
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Unit C8: Two Independent Samples (Skip Basics 4, Uses 2)
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DataTools, used throughout
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Exercises 1, 3, 20, 22, 23
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Unit C9: Paired Data
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DataTools, used throughout
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Exercises 1 to 6
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Monday
April 29
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Chapter 15, Section 15.1 only: The Chi-square Test for
Two-Way Tables
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None
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20
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Unit C10: Two-way Tables for Count Data
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Uses Practice 1
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Try Self Assess (don't hand in). Exercises 14, 15, 16.
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*Partial answers in back of textbook. Show your work.
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