About Quizzes & Tests About Projects About the Final Exam About Grades Things to be Handed In For this class you should do most of the problems at the end of each section.  I will not assign specific problems, rather during each class, you will take a short quiz over the concepts in the sections covered the class period before.  This will count as your homework and will be 15% of your final grade.  Computers with Minitab installed on them are located in PE 422 Computer Lab and the Woldt Computer Lab. Click here for MiniTab Instructions.

Test Schedule    Short Test  over chs1, 2 September 11 Long Test  over ch 1-4 plus binomial prob October 2 Short Test over chs 5, 6 October 23 Long Test  over chs 5-8 November 13 Short Test over chs 9-10 and Chi-Square December 4 Final Exam Comprehensive  Thurs Dec 11, 10:00-11:50 Projects  Test Schedule  Projects How is Your Bloodpressure? due Sept 4 The Boys of Summer due Sept 9 Summation Project  due Sept16 Do You Think Your Dishes Are Really Clean? due Sept16 Probability and Decision Making in the Congo due Oct 2 A Mystery:  Cancers Near a Reactor due Oct 14 The Long and the Short of It due Oct 16 Sampling the Roulette at Monte Carlo  (Extra Credit) due Nov 6 How Reliable is that Poll? due Nov 13 An Aspirin a Day. . . ? due Nov 25 How Would You Like a Four-Day work Week? due Dec 2 Is Your Car "Made in the USA"?

Articles to Read  Reading Statistics Applications of Statistics and Probability to Genetics Lying  Statistics 90% Box Plots to Download Sample Size 20 Sample Size 40 Sample Size 60 Sample Size 80 Sample Size 100

Web Assignments to Practice Theoretical Probability Problems replacement and non replacement Conditional Probability conditional probability More Theoretical Probability Problems addition rule, multiplication rule, beginning binomial probability Binomial Probability binomial probability, addition rule Genetics Worksheet punnet squares      Note:  Be sure to read the Genetics Article first Still More Probability general Likely or Unlikely likely or unlikely results from sampling Confidence Intervals confidence intervals and standard errors Standard Deviations standard deviation Normal Distributions 1 normal distributions Normal Distributions 2 normal distributions Normal Distributions 3 normal distributions   Click here to get a better Normal Distribution Table Hypothesis Testing hypothesis testing Chi-Square Distribution hypothesis testing using Chi-Square