MTH 214 Syllabus
Fall 2020
Professor John Verzani
Text: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Ninth Edition, by Moore, McCabe, and Craig. Student Edition Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-319-01338-7. The eighth edition should also be satisfactory.
Chapter 1 Distributions
- 1.2 Graphs 36,37
- 1.3 Center and Spread 71,75,77,88
- 1.4 Normal Distributions 110,113,118,120,123,134
Lab: Intro to R and RStudio
Lab: Normal
Chapter 2 Relationships
2.2 Scatterplots 24,28,32 2.3 Correlation 47,48,58 2.4 Least Squares 70,71,72,87 2.5 Cautions 101,102,103,109
Lab: Correlation and linear regression: cor, lm
Chapter 3 Data
- 3.2 Design of Experiments 25, 27,31,34,35
- 3.3 Sampling Design 55,57,58,64,68
Lab: Toward inference
Chapter 4 Probability
- 4.1 Randomness 5,7
- 4.2 Models 21,23,25,27,33
- 4.3 RVs 49,51,52,55,57,59,60
- 4.4 Mean and Variance 14,75,78,83,85
Lab: Law of large numbers, empirically speaking
Chapter 5 Sampling Distributions
- 5.1 Toward Inference 7,8,9,13
- 5.2 Sampling Distribution of
- Sample Mean 25,26,27,29,38,39
- 5.3 Sampling Distributions for Counts and Proportions 57,59,61,63,70,72,73
Lab: The central limit theorem
Chapter 6 Inference
- 6.1 Confidence Intervals 12, 13, 14, 15, 17,19,23,25
- 6.2 Significance 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64,65
- 6.3 Abuse of Tests 92, 93, 95, 99, 100, 101
- 6.4 Power, Error Types 110, 111, 116, 137
Lab: Confidence intervals with R
Chapter 7 Inference for Distributions
- 7.1 One Mean 15,16,18,20,22,23,39
- 7.2 Two Means 55,56,68,71,72,74
Lab: two sample \(t\) tests
Chapter 8 Inference for Proportions
- 8.1 One Proportion 22,23,27,35,38
- 8.2 Two Proportions 62,63,64
Chapter 10 Linear Regression
- Chapter 10.1 7,8,12,14,18
Lab: Inference for regression models
Chapter 12 ANOVA
Time Permitting
- Chapter 12.1 11,14,15,17,18,25
Chapter 9 Two-Way Tables
Time Permitting
- 9.1 Two-way Tables 121,146
- 9.2 Goodness of Fit 43,44,45,48
The departmental syllabus is here. This syllabus has the same learning goals, but taked a different order than suggested there.