Course Syllabus

Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data

Summary of Minitab Commands

Statistics Clinic (Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday 8:00 - 10:00 pm in Hayes Hall 311)

Daily Agendas

• Jan. 14
• Jan. 16
• Jan. 18
• Jan. 21
• Jan. 23
• Jan. 25
• Jan. 28
• Jan. 30
  • Real Knife, Fake Surgery
  • Follow up to And Then The Patients Suddenly Started Dying
• Feb. 1
• Feb. 4
• Feb. 6
• Feb. 8 - Quiz #1
• Feb. 11
• Feb. 13
• Feb. 15
• Feb. 18
• Feb. 20
• Feb. 22 - Exam #1
• Feb. 25
• Feb. 27
• March 1
• March 18
• March 20 - no class - work on CLT exercises
• March 22
• March 25 - Quiz #2
• March 27
• March 29
• April 1
• April 3
• April 5
• April 8
• April 10 - Problem Session / Review
• April 12 - Exam #2
• April 15
• April 17
• April 19
• April 22
• April 24
• April 26 - Problem Session on Chapter 13 and Quiz (Covering Chapters 12 and 13)
• April 29
• May 1
• May 3 - Review / Individual consultations
• May 7 - Comprehensive Final Exam (8:30 - 11:30 AM)

Homework Assignments

• HW #1 - due on Jan. 21
• HW #2 - due on Jan. 28
• HW #3 - due on Feb. 4
• HW #4 - due on Feb. 13
• HW #5 - due on Feb. 20
• Short Paper #1 - due on or before Feb. 27
• HW #6 - due on March 1
• Short Paper #2 - due before midnight on March 27
• HW #7 - due on March 29
• HW #8 - due on April 5

Quiz Samples

• Quiz 1 - Solutions
• Quiz 2 - Solutions
• Quiz 3 - Solutions

Exam 1 Samples

• See p:\data\math\hartlaub\elements of statistics

Sample Papers

• See p:\data\math\hartlaub\elements of statistics

Interesting Links

• StatKey
• Wolfram Alpha
• Simpon's Paradox
• For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
• CHANCE Wiki
• CAUSEweb
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

Data Sources

• Google Public Data
• Gap Minder
• Government Data
• Robin Lock's Data Surfing Page
• The Numbers Guy
• Advanced NFL statistics