E270 INTRO TO STATISTICAL THEORY  COURSE OUTLINE FOR FALL 2006 (Class #9893  T, R 7:00-8:15 p.m. KO 108)
  INSTRUCTOR: Dianne Roden, PhD Office: KO 174G, phone 455-9470, fax 455-9348 Office hours: T&R 2:30-4:00 & 5:30-7:00 p.m.or by appointment WEB PAGE: Roden's Home Page EMAIL:  droden@iuk.edu  

TEXTBOOK:   Lind, Marchal and Wathen,  Basic Statistics for Business & Economics, 5th edition

SOFTWARE: Microsoft EXCEL, with MegaStat.

OPTIONAL: Study Guide for Basic Statistics. This book will be on reserve in the library.

PREREQ: MATH M118

EXAMS: There will be three exams, two during the semester and one during the final exam period.
 

first midterm	Sept 26	in class
second midterm	Oct 31	in class
Final exam	Dec 12	7:00-9:00 p.m.

 
Your grade will be determined based on the following weights:
 

class participation	10%	25 points
first midterm	30%	75 points
second midterm	30%	75 points
Final Exam	30%	75 points
TOTAL	100%	250 points

Exam format will contain some multiple choice, some short answer, and a number of problems similar to the ones assigned in class.

CLASS PARTICIPATION: Problems and questions from the text will be assigned each week and the solutions discussed in class. Participation in this process, other class discussions, and general attendance will impact this portion of the grade.

GRADES: A 90-100, B 80-89, C 70-79, D 60-69, F < 60
(plus and minus grades will be given in the high & low range of each group)
Grades will be posted on Oncourse at: http://oncourse.iu.edu

Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions.

GOALS: 

• To understand the critical role of statistics in various disciplines.
• To develop skills in solving statistical problems
• To use statistical techniques to develop forecasting models, quality standards, and validate claims.

OBJECTIVES:

• Understand methods of data collection, organization, interpretation, and presentation.
• Understand measures of central location, and dispersion.
• Comprehend the concepts of probability and mathematical expectations.
• Learn discrete and continuous probability distributions.
• Draw inferences regarding parameters using confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses.
• Learn analysis of variance (ANOVA).
• Utilize regression and correlation models to predict and to measure the strength of association between variables.
• Know some ethical, political, and social issues of using statistical information.
  

The structure of this class makes your individual study and preparation outside class extremely important. You will get much more from the lectures if you attempt the problems on your own and you come to class prepared.

LIBRARY RESOURCES:   Solutions to all problems will be put on reserve in the library after they are discussed in class. A Study Guide for Basic Statistics will also be on reserve. The IUK library offers a large variety of resources to supplement this course.  Examples include current newspapers (Wall Street Journal), magazines (Business Week), databases (ABI Inform), and access to the Internet.

 

WEEK	DATES	TEXT	TOPIC & ASSIGNMENT
1	Aug 22 Aug 24	ch1  ch2	introduction & overview   frequency distributions
2	Aug 29 Aug 31	HW ch3	Ch1 #5,6,7,13     Ch2 #3,7,9,13,15,25,31 measures of central tendency and dispersion
3	Sept 5 Sept 7	HW  ch5	Ch3 #3,9,11,17,25,29,33,39,45,51,73    probability concepts
4	Sept 12 Sept 14	HW  ch6	Ch5 #5,6,14,19,21,27,28,33,35,61   discrete probability distributions
5	Sept 19 Sept 21	HW  review	Ch6 #3,5,9,13,15,21,25,27,49 review for first exam
6	Sept 26 Sept 28	EXAM I ch7	EXAM I  continuous probability distributions
7	Oct 3 Oct 5	HW  ch8	Ch7 #1,3,8,9,11,13,17,19,25,27   sampling methods & central limit theorem
8	Oct 10 Oct 12	HW  ch9	ch8 #1,5,7,15,17,21,22,37,39   confidence intervals
9	Oct 17  Oct 19	HW  ch10	Ch9 #1,3,5,9,11,15,19,23,25,45   hypothesis testing: one sample
10	Oct 24  Oct 26	HW  review	Ch10 #1,3,7,9,13,15,19,21   review for second exam
11	Oct 31 Nov 2	EXAM II  ch11	EXAM II  hypothesis testing: two samples
12	Nov 7 Nov 9	HW  ch12	Ch11 #1,3,7,9,13,15,21   analysis of variance analysis (ANOVA)
13	Nov 14  Nov 16	HW  ch13	Ch12 #1,3,7,11,20,23,25  correlation & regression
14	Nov 21  Nov 23	TBA  no class	special class  Thanksgiving Break
15	Nov 28 Nov 30	HW  ch14	Ch13 #1,5,9,11,17,19,45   multiple regression
16	Dec 5 Dec 7	HW  review	Ch14 #1,3,5,7,11,15,27  review for final exam
17	Dec 12	FINAL EXAM	FINAL EXAM

 
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