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PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

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General Information:

Data for the assignments are to be found at:

http://www.prenhall.com/levine/


Information regarding computer lab locations on campus is to be found at:

http://www.washington.edu/computing/compmap.html


You may want to bring a jump-drive (a.k.a. a flash-drive or thumb-drive) to the lab sessions in order to save your lab work done for homework. A better alternative is to save your work to your University computer account (see the next item).

http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northwest.html?Book+Store


You should verify your Dante account password on the UW system - you may find it most convenient to save your lab work for later retrieval on this site. General information about obtaining and modifying a UW account can be found at:

http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/


NOTE: you may accidently change the keyboard language in which case you can change back to English by following the instructions given here



Homework assignments are to be submitted in hardcopy - no diskettes or e-mail attachments. They are due at the Tuesday lecture session of the week following the week on which they are assigned.



Week 1:

Chapter 1: read pages 1-14; read appendices 1.1 and 1.2 and apply as appropriate.

Chapter 2: skim pages 44-51; read pages 52-85; read appendix 2.1 and apply as appropriate.

Chapter 3: read pages 103-125; read appendix 3.1

Review of Excel operations and work problem 2.64 (FISH) on page 93 of the textbook. Do parts (a) through (g); skip question (h). Answer the questions ONLY for body Depth of the female and male Dover sole.


Additional optional problems in preparation for midterm exam.


Week 2:

Chapter 4; read pages 135-173.

Work problem 3.27 on page 127 (RAINFALL).

During the lab sessions we will visit the following websites and discuss some of the material presented there. See the lab notes for week 3.

Examine the histogram example.

Dice Experiment

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/

We will also examine the Poisson and Binomial distributions in greater detail by first applying Excel to problem 4.64: Poisson


Week 3:

Chapter 5; read pages 180-219.

Work problem 5.65 on page 222 (Work using a calculator).

Example of a right skewed distribution: Snoflow

Problem 5.69 will be done during the lab session. We will answer only parts (e), (f), and (g) by making a Q-Q plot ONLY for the "drainage" (D) lakes. (LAKES)


Week 4:

Review all material of the previous five weeks in preparation for the midterm on Thursday of this week.


Week 5:

Chapter 8; read pages 365-378, 384-385; read appendix 8.1
Chapter 9; read pages 392-406; read appendix 9.1 as needed.

Work problem 8.34 on page 385 (Work using a calculator).
Work problem 9.2 on page 412 (Work using a calculator).

Work problem 8.45 parts (a), (b), and (c) on page 388 (Work using Excel; REDWOOD).
Work problem 9.6 on page 412 (Work using Excel; PLASTIC3)


Additional optional problems in preparation for final exam.


Week 6:

Chapter 9; read pages 406-449.

Work problem 9.14 on page 421 (work using Excel; PHONE)

Work problem 9.23 on page 426 (work using a calculator).

Work problem 9.42 on page 450 (work using a calculator).


Week 7:

Chapter 10; read pages 469-497.

Work problem 10.5 on page 485 (Work using a calculator; you will find a lab work sheet under week 7 Notes.) Work problem 10.27 on page 505 (work using Excel; POLYMER)


Week 8:

Chapter 12; read pages 567-606.

Work problem 12.55 on page 610 (work using Excel; REDWOOD)


Week 9:

Chapter 13; read pages 616-630, 638-644, 651-653; read appendix 13.1 as needed.

Work problem 13.30 on page 645 (work using Excel; TAXES)

Week 10 Review:

A general review of material covered during the quarter, particularly that presented since the midterm examination should be undertaken. See the review questions on the "Class Notes" page of this web site.



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 Last Updated:
5/9/2012

Contact the instructor at: greulich@u.washington.edu