STA 2023: Introduction to Statistics

Summer A 2007


Instructor
Jennifer Denson
Office
Griffin-Floyd 104
Office Hours
MW 2nd per (9:30-10:45)
Email
abderite@stat.ufl.edu

TAs
Nate Holt
Steve Chung
Kiranmoy Das
TA Email
nateholt@stat.ufl.edu
stevec@stat.ufl.edu
kiranmoy@stat.ufl.edu

Tutoring Room
Griffin-Floyd 104
Tutoring Room Hours
Monday 9:30-3:15
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-12:15
Wednesday 9:30-1:45
Friday 11:00-3:15
Note: tutoring room closes for the fifteen minutes between classes

Lectures
MTWHF 1st Period in Normal Hall Room 137

Required Materials
1)Lab Workbook for Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Maria Ripol and Megan Mocko
2)
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin 1st edition, Pearson, 2007. You may purchase the full book or the Volume 1 portion.
3)Scientific calculator with basic statistical functions. Look for the symbols x-bar, s, or sn-1
Calculator help can be found at  http://www.geocities.com/calculatorhelp/index.html


Announcements

  • Congrdulations everyone!!!
    Exam three grades should be posted by 1pm on Friday, June 22 in WebCT.  The grading scale is as follows:
    90-100 A
    85-89 B+
    80-84 B
    75-79 C+
    70-74 C
    60-69 D
    0-59 F
    To calculate your grade: grade=.25(test1)+.25(test2)+.25(final)+5(hw1/60)+5(hw2/30)+5(hw3/30)+5(hw4/30)+5(hw5/30)


  • All grades (except test 3) are posted in WebCT. If there are any problems with your grades, you need to contact me by Thursday, June 21.

  • Here are the formulas that will be given on test three (the final exam): test_three_formula.pdf

  • Homework Correction: Don't do part d of problem 8.29
    Homework Hint: For problem 8.14b, remember that the ts=(P-hat-Po)/sqrt(Po(1-Po)/n). So in this problem, be sure to plug in Po from Ho.

  • Suggested Problems
      Chapter 9: 1, 2, 3, 8, 12, 13a, 14, 39, 40, 44, 48, 49

  • Here is a link to the p-value examples we did in class: p-values.pdf

  • Homework Five due in class Tuesday, June19. Please staple and write your UFID and name.
    8.4, 8.14, 8.29, 8.43ab, 8.48abc. On 8.48c, state whether the confidence interval results agree with the significance test results.

  • Suggested Problems
    Chapter 8: 1, 2, 3, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 46, 47

  • Exam 3 (the final) will be on Friday, June 22 in class. Please email me if you require a make up exam time.

  • hw4solutions

  • On Homework Four, please write your name legibly and include your UFID. Also, make sure your pages are stapled together and not just folded at the corners.

  • Homework three grades have been posted. Homework three is out of thirty points.

  • Homework Four due in class Friday, June 8
          7.12, 7.18, 7.27, 7.28, 7.44ab, 7.48 
            Hint for 7.48: Use the formula (max-min)/6 to approximate the standard deviation.
  • Suggested Problems
       
    Chapter 7:  1, 4, 6ab, 7, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 26, 34ab, 42, 43, 45, 46

  • EXAM TWO will be on Monday, June 11  in class. If you can not make this exam time email me now to set up a make up exam. You must email me by Thursday, June 7 to attend a make up exam!

  • Here are the formulas that will be given on test two: test2formulasheet.pdf

  • hw3solns.pdf

  • You can check your grades in webct. homework one is currently posted. Hopefully exam one grades will be there by Friday, June1. You can access webct by going to http://lss.at.ufl.edu and logging in with your gatorlink username/password.

  • Homework Three due Monday June 4 in class. 
         6.3, 14, 23, 33, 53
           Hint for problem 6.14: You may assume a standard normal distribution. ie) ~N(0, 1)
  • Suggested Problems
      
    6.4, 5b, 12, 20, 21, 22, 37, 38, 50, 56a, 57, 61, 62, 63

  • hw2solution.pdf

  • There is an error in the test one formula sheet!! The exams have already been printed, so it can not be corrected on the exam. However, I will project the correction on the board. Incorrect statement: P(A|B)=P(A and B)/P(A).   Correct statement: P(A|B)=P(A and B)/P(B).

  • Homework One Solutions.

  • Everyone who is taking a makup exam should have an email confirmation. If you did not recieve an email with the date/time/location the you NEED TO EMAIL ME NOW!

  • Here are the formulas that will be given on test one: Test One Formula Sheet

  • TEST ONE will be in class on Friday May 25. If you are unable to make the exam, please email me...even if we have talked after class. I will post the formula sheet that will be given on the exam in the near future.

  • Homework Two due Tuesday, May 29 in class.
    Part One: Complete problems 4.32a, 4.46c, 5.4, 5.18, 5.28, 5.35ab in the textbook.
    Hint for 4.46c: read the problem statement as “Given a person used a mobile phone, what is the proportion that i) had eye cancer ii) did not have eye cancer.” Also, the column labeled case refers to people who had cancer and the column labeled control refers to people who did not have cancer.

    Part Two: Answer the following question:
    A Gallup Organization poll conducted in July 2003 reported the results of a survey asking approximately 1000 randomly chosen Americans questions about fast food consumption. It reported that 59% of the respondents eat fast food at least once weekly. What is the margin of error of the Gallup Organization poll? Barring any major incidents that could change people’s minds, between what two numbers can we be confident that true proportion of respondents eat fast food at least once weekly lies?  
                                           

  • Suggested Problems (from the textbook):   
           Chapter 4: 7, 8, 25, 28a, 31, 39a, 46ab        

           Chapter 5: 2, 17, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 56ac

  • Homework problems are located in the book.  Each chapter is made up of sections. Homework problems are at the end of each section within a given chapter.

  • The office hours have been changed one last time. The hours listed on the page are final as of May 17, 2007.
  • The office hours have changed from what is listed on the syllabus! As of now, there will not be a TA in GF104 on Wednesdays from 11:00-12:15.

  • Homework 1 is due Monday, May 21 and will consist of problems 1.7, 2.8ab, 2.10abc, 2.17, 2.23, 2.47, 2.49, 2.57, 2.68, 3.14, 3.19, 3.33, 3.47ab. For problem 3.19c, interpret the correlation under the false assumption that the data is linear. Remember, correlation is only an accurate measurement for LINEAR data. A solution to homework one will be posted after the due date.

  • Suggested problems:
ch 1: 8ab, 9b, 10d, 14
ch2:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24, 28, 30, 31, 35, 39, 43, 45, 61, 65b, 67
ch3: 1, 2, 3a, 5, 7abc, 9, 11ac, 23, 25, 29, 38, 39ac, 41, 47ab, 48ab




syllabus