Tuesday and Thursday, noon-1:45pm, Humn Lecture 206
Robin Morris
email: rdm @ soe.ucsc.edu - please put "AMS7" in the subject line
phone: email is preferred; (650) 283 3164 if desperate
Office: Baskin Engineering 357b
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:15-11:15am, Thursdays 2:15-3:15pm, or by appointment
Jairo Fuquene, jfuquene @ ucsc.edu
Ngan Nguyen, nknguyen @ ucsc.edu
Nicole Beyer, nbeyer @ soe.ucsc.edu
Monday, 9:30-10:40am, Engineering 2, 194
Wednesday, 8:000-9:10am, Engineering 2, 194
Wednesday, 9:30-10:40am, Engineering 2, 194
Friday, 2:00-3:10am, Engineering 2, 194
Sections start on Friday, January 11th, and end on Wednesday, March 13th
There are two holidays this quarter, MLK day on Monday, January 21st and Presidents Day on Monday, February 18th. Sections will not meet on those days.
The MSI instructor is Jessica Johnston, email jejjohns @ ucsc.edu . The MSI schedule is
Monday, 5-6.15pm, Oakes 101
Tuesday, 4-5.15pm, Crown 104
Wednesday, 2-3.10pm, ARCenter 202
Friday, 12.30-1.40pm, ARCenter 203
it should also be posted at http://eop-apps.ucsc.edu/msi/msischedule.cfm
The main MSI website is http://www2.ucsc.edu/lss/msi.shtml
Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, M.M. Triola and M.F. Triola. Pearson (2006)
Other books that may be interesting are "Struck by Lightning: the curious world of probabilities", Jeffrey S. Rosenberg, and "How to Lie With Statistics", Darrel Huff.
[add link to data sets here]
The proposed schedule is below. Note that this may change depending on how the quarter progresses.
Date | Topic | Chapter | Homework | Lecture Notes |
Tu, Jan 8th |
Introduction to the course. Why Study statistics? Data types, experiments. |
1.1-1.3 |
1.2 Qs 1, 7, 13, 17 1.3 Qs 1, 3, 5, 7, 21, 23, 31 |
notes are on the "syllabus" page |
Th, Jan 10th |
Looking at data. Measures of central tendency |
2.1-2.4 |
2.3 Qs 16 2.4 Qs 1, 5(a-c)
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notes |
Tu, Jan 15th | Measures of dispersion. Definition of probability |
2.5-2.7 3.1-3.2 |
2.5 Q 1,3 2.6, Q 7 2.7 Q1 3.2 Q 1, 3, 5c
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notes |
Th, Jan 17th | Probability | 3.3-3.7 |
3.3, Q13, 15 3.4 Q9 3.5, Q7, 17, 21 |
[there may not be on-line notes from this class unless someone is willing to send me theirs to put up here' |
Tu, Jan 22nd | Discrete distributions - binomial and Poisson | 4.1-4.5 |
4.3 Q3, 11, 13 4.4 Q11, 13 4.5 Q5a |
notes |
Th, Jan 24th |
Normal distribution, Sampling distributions (quiz) |
5.1-5.4 | 5.3 Q 1, 3, 7, 9 |
quiz grades and solutions are on eCommons |
Tu, Jan 29th | Central limit theorem | 5.5-5.7 |
5.5 Q 1, 7, 9, 11 5.6 Q 13, 15, 23 |
notes |
Th, Jan 31st |
Confidence intervals (quiz) |
6.1-6.3 |
6.2 Q 27, 31, 35 6.3 Q 21, 23 |
notes |
Tu, Feb 5th | Confidence Intervals | 6.3-6.4 | 6.4 Q 13, 17 | notes |
Th, Feb 7th | Review |
Note: we wil finish off confidence intervals before starting the review |
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Tu, Feb 12th | Midterm (in class) |
Solutions to the midterm are on eCommons |
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Th, Feb 14th |
We spent this class going over the midterm, so we're running a class late with respect to the original schedule. The schedule shown here has been modified to reflect this. We will catch up, but note that the quizzes have been rescheduled. Here is a link to TIm Gower's blog where he discuses teaching to the test (and why it's a bad idea0 |
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Tu Feb 19th | Hypothesis Testing | 7.1-7.5 |
7.2 Q 5,7, 37, 39, 41 7.3 Q 9 7.5 Q 17, 21, 25 optional 7.2 Q 43, 44 |
notes |
Th Feb 21st |
Two-sample hypothesis tests
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8.1-8.3 |
8.2 Q 17, 19 8.3 Q 15, 23 8.4 Q9 |
notes |
Tu Feb 26th |
More two-sample tests (quiz) |
8.3-8.4 | notes | |
Th Feb 28th |
Correlation and regression
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9.1-9.3 |
9.2 Q 5, 11, 23 9.3 Q 3, 9, 19 |
notes |
Tu, Mar 5th |
More on regression (quiz) |
9.3-9.5 |
9.4 Q 9, 13 9.5 Q 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 |
notes |
Th, Mar 7th |
Chi-square tests
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10.1-10.3 |
10.2 Q 1, 6, 7, 11, 13 10.3 Q 3, 4, 11, 15 |
notes |
Tu, Mar 12th |
Analysis of Variance (quiz) |
11.1-11.2 | 11.2 Q 1, 3, 4, 9 | notes |
Th, Mar 14th |
Review |
review notes | ||
Tu, Mar 19th | Final Exam, 8-11am |
A practice final is on eCommons. Model solutions will be posted later. Here is the cheat sheet with all the formulae that you might need. You can bring a copy of this sheet to the final, in addition to your one page of notes. |
If you qualify for classroom accomodations because of a disability, please submit your Accomodation Authorization from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me during my office hours in a timely manner, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter. Contact the DRC at 459-2089 V, 459-4806 TTY.
You are reminded of the University's Policy on Academic Integrity. I hope not to have to remind any of you individually about this policy.
"In Praise of Lectures" gives some ideas about the purpose of lectures, note-taking, and not being afraid to ask questions. It's target audience is more advanced mathematics students, but everything it says applies here. Think about the ideas it presents, and you will have a better time in AMS7 lectures. In particular