Statistics & Probability | Instructor: Suman Ganguli

Category: Class Agendas (Page 9 of 10)

Class #6 Agenda (Mon Feb 22)

Class Info

  • Class Outline: Class #6 Outline (download pdf from Files)

Topics

To-Do After Class

  • Work on Rederley WebWork:
    • Topics 2.3, 2.4, 2.5: due Tues Feb 23
    • Topic 2.7: due Tues March 2
  • choose your variable for your Personal Data Project (& start collecting data!)
    • optional (for participation point): post your choice (or additional ideas) as a comment under the project post
    • required: submit your variable choice on Blackboard

Class #5 Agenda (Wed Feb 17)

Class Info

  • Class Outline: continue with Class #4 Outline (download pdf from Files)

Topics

To-Do After Class

  • Work on Rederley WebWork:
    • Topics 2.1, 2.2: due Wed Feb 17
    • Topics 2.3, 2.4, 2.5: due Mon Feb 22
  • choose your variable for your Personal Data Project (& start collecting data!)
    • optional (for participation point): post your choice (or additional ideas) as a comment under the project post

Class #4 Agenda (Wed Feb 10)

Class Info

  • Class Outline: Class #4 Agenda (download from Files)

Topics

  • Finish frequency distributions (in particular relative frequencies; symmetry & skew)
    • Sec 1.3 & 2.2
  • Sec 2.5: Measures of central location: mean, median, mode
  • Sec 2.3: More measures of location: percentiles & quartiles (Q1, Q2, Q3)
  • Other types of graphs for visualizing distributions
    • Pie charts & bar graphs (for qualititative data)
    • Stem-and-leaf graphs (histograms but with numbers)
    • Box plots: min, Q1, median, Q3, max (Sec 2.4)

To-Do After Class

  • Work on Rederley WebWork:
    • Topics 1.1, 1.2, 1.3: due Friday Feb 12
    • Topics 2.1, 2.2, 2.5: due Wed Feb 17
    • Topics 2.3, 2.4: due Mon Feb 22
  • Schedule notes:
    • Office hours Friday (11a-12p) instead of Thursday this week
    • No class next Monday (Feb 15)

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