Statistics 185

Fall 2024

Professor: Mark McClure

Handy Links

• Transition plans
• Code for post-Helene Homeworks

• Syllabus
• Course calendar
• The textbook: PDF | Homepage
• Discourse (our class forum)
• MyOpenMath (our online HW)
• Colab (our computational tool)
• The Math Lab

Handouts

• Normal tables: [ PDF for quizzes/exams | Interactive web version ]
• Review for Exam I

Class Notes

• Monday, August 19 - NCAA Data Intro:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Thursday, August 22.

    And don't forget the survey on the forum!!
• Wednesday, August 21 - More on data:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Sunday, August 25.
• Friday, August 23 - Measures of Data:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with just one problem worth 4 points due by Monday, August 26.
    Be sure to use the definition of sample standard deviation, rather for population standard deviation.
• Monday, August 26: Lab 1
• Wednesday, August 28 - Categorical Data:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with two problems worth 5 points due by next Wednesday, September 4.
• Wednesday, September 4 - Probability Theory:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with seven problems worth 9 points due by next Monday, September 9.
• Friday, September 6 - Discrete Distributions:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with seven problems due by next Tuesday, September 10.
• Monday, September 9 - Continous Distributions and the Normal:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    In lieu of homework, you should focus on the problem sheet for the midterm exam!
• Monday, September 16 - Normal Samples:
  • Presentation
• Wednesday, September 18 - Confidence Intervals:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with four problems due by Sunday, September 22.
• Friday, September 20 - Confidence Intervals for Proportions:
  • Presentation
  • Computer Lab 2
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with three problems due by Monday, September 23.
• Monday, September 23 - Hypothesis Tests:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with two problems worth 9 points due by Thursday, September 26.
• Wednesday, September 25 - Problem day!

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• Wednesday, October 30 - Comparing Data Sets:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with two problems worth 9 points due by Monday, November 4.
• Monday, November 4 - Analysing political polls:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material with two problems worth 10 points due by Thursday, November 10.
• Monday, November 11 - Small data sets:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a MyOpenMath assignment over this material with three problems worth 13 points due by Thursday, November 4.
• Wednesday, November 20 - Linear Models:
  • Presentation
  • Homework

    There is a MyOpenMath assignment over this material with three problems worth 10 points due by Sunday, November 24.

    There's also a Colab Notebook to assist.