Math 143C
Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Fall, 2008

*Course information links

Course syllabus
Course calendar
Homework assignments
KnightVision (Get exam solutions and check the accuracy of recorded homework scores)
Technology:
CrunchIt software | StatCrunch software (CrunchIt with extensions) | short guide to both
Guidebooks for TI graphing calculators: 83 | 83-Plus/Silver Ed. | 85 | 86 | 89/92-Plus | 89-Titanium
Professor Scofield's homepage (See for a current list of office hours)
Formulas: Sheet for Final Exam | BPS card provided at book website

* Applets

Effect of adjusting bin size in a histogram: applet 1 | applet 2
Sampling Reese's Pieces
An applet for the distribution of simulated dice rolls
An applet exploring the sampling distribution of sample means
BPS applets
Mean & median
1-variable statistics calculator
Normal curve calculator
Correlation & regression: using prepared (book) data | using points you generate
Simple random sample
What is probability?
Illustrating the Law of Large Numbers
Central limit theorem: Normal approximation to the Sample Mean | to binomial distribution
Confidence intervals
Tests of significance
Illustrating the P-value of a significance test
Statistical significance
1-way ANOVA
Illustrating the concept of the power of a test
2-asset portfolios
More applets on normal distributions: Seeing Statistics | the 68-95-99.7 rule

* Handouts

One-sample t procedures for means
1-sample z procedures for proportions; 2-sample procedures for means and proportions
Summary sheet of formulas for 1 and 2-sample procedures
Chi-squared tests
ANOVA
Inference practice problems and their solutions
Simple linear regression analysis
General questions to help guide studying for final exam

* Tips for studying and policies: Group work and integrity | Reading the textbook

* Miscellany: Grading codes

* Software links

CrunchIt (statistical software coupled with BPS datasets) — here is a short guide on its use
R website
R is powerful free statistical software which may be installed on your own computer. The professor will not provide general instruction to the class on its use. You may, however, familiarize yourself with it on your own, and use it to do homework.
Mozilla homepage, for its Firefox 3 web browser
Get Adobe's Acrobat Reader 9

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Thomas L. Scofield
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College

Last Modified: Monday, 31-Aug-2009 11:09:30 EDT