Chapter 1 - Looking
at Data, Describing Distributions
Last Update: September 4th, 2003
*Boldfaced Problems are TURN-IN problems. They will be graded on a 5 point basis.
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| Day
Number |
Topic Discussed In Class | Readings / Activ Stats / Internet / Class Handouts | Homework Due Next Time |
| 1 |
Introduction to course | Day
One Survey
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| 2 |
1.1:Describing the distribution of a variable, Displaying Variables Graphically: dot plots, stemplots, time plots, histograms | Link:
six characteristics of a dataset ActivStats: Chapter 2 - Data and Measurements (An especially helpful task would be 2-3, "The Circle Game" |
1.8, 1.9, 1.11 1.12, 1.16 |
| 3 |
1.1: more on describing distributions time plots, ogives, percentiles | read 29-37 ActivStats: Chapter 3, Displaying Distributions of Variables,** ESPECIALLY:3.3 -3.5, THESE DEAL WITH WAYS TO DESCRIBE DISTRIBUTIONS. |
1.20, 1.21, 1.26, 1.27, 1.30 |
| 4 |
1.2 Numerical Summaries (measures of center) | Internet:the relationship between the mean and the median (go to exercises 1-4. p.s. don't worry about the proof in 4- just answer the question based on your experimentation) Read: ActivStats: Section 4-1 "Summarizing Center", Chapter 6 "Boxplots" |
1.69, 1.32, 1.36, 1.39, 1.48, 1.50
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| 5 |
1.2 Numerical Summaries (measures of spread, transformations)) | ActivStats: 4-2 and 4-3 "Summarizing Spread," "Working with Summaries"
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1.40, 1.41, 1.43, 1.44, 1.50, 1.54, |
| 6 |
Explorations | ActivStats: 4-4 "How Summaries Behave" | 1.53, 1.55, 1.58, 1.62
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| 7 |
Explorations | 1.52, 1.61, 1.66, 1.67, | |
| 8 |
Review Day for test | 1.60, 1.61, 1.63, 1.64, 1.65, 1.66 |
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| 9 |
Chapter 1 test | REQUIRED: Activ Stats, activity 5-1: |
| LABS and ACTIVITES: | Data sets for homework (all are Data Desk Files) | Applets |
| Old Faithful: an Intro (Word document) | Hot Dog Data | six characteristics of a dataset |
| The State of the SAT (Word Document) | Mileage Data | How to describe a distribution |
| Price Index Data | relationship between the mean and the median | |
| Data on % of pop over 65 | the mean and the median | |
| Old Faithful- Part 1 | applet: 1 variable stats calculator | |
| Old Faithful-Part 2 | ||
| SAT Data | ||
| Speed of Light Data | ||
| SSHA Scores | ||
| LA Laker Salaries, 2000 | ||
| Day One Survey Data |