Stat 1040, Section 006 - Introduction to Statistics (Fall 2002)

• 0) Recommended Course Material: In addition to the required textbook listed in the syllabus, the following course material is highly recommended for this course. You can either buy the bound yellow booklet for $ 12.30 at the bookstore or download and print the underlying files at your convenience. Overall, there are 5 documents (8/20/2002):
  • Stat 1040, Section 006: Fill-in Lecture Notes
  • Stat 1040: Quizzes, Spring 2002
  • Stat 1040: Midterm 1 & 2, Spring 2002
  • Stat 1040: Old Exams (1998-2002)
  • Stat 1040: Homework Solutions
  
  
  
• 1) Stat 1040 Curriculum Fall 2002. (8/20/2002)
  
  
• 2) Statistics is fun! If you don't think so, better check this Web site first:
  http://www.ilstu.edu/~gcramsey/Gallery.html (8/20/2002)
  
  
• 3) Tutoring Labs. (9/5/2002)
  
  
• 4) In addition to the general tuturing sessions listed in 3) above, there will be an additional Stat 1040 tutor, Zewen Zhu. You can reach Zewen in the Faculty Lounge, Lund 311, on Mondays from 9:30 to 11:00am. Hope this helps. (9/9/2002)
  
  
• 5) As requested, here are the solutions for the Quizzes from last year. (9/19/02)
  
  
• 6) Study Guide for Midterm 1. (10/2/2002)
  
  
• 7) A review session for Midterm 1 for Section 006 will be held at the following place and time:
  
  • Thursday 10/3/2002, 4-6pm, Geol 302
  
  
• 8) Here are the solutions, as promised during the help session:
  • Midterm 1, Spring 2002
  • Midterm 2, Spring 2002
  • Final, Fall 2001
  • Final, Spring 2002
  During the help session, we discussed the entire Midterm 1 from Spring 2002 and Question 2 from the Fall 2001 Final (note that a shorter calculation is used in part (b) - however the result will be the same using our approach). (10/3/2002)
  
  
• 9) Study Guide for Midterm 2. (11/4/2002)
  
  
• 10) A review session for Midterm 2 for Section 006 will be held at the following place and time:
  
  • Thursday 11/7/2002, 3-5pm, Bus 315
  
  
• 11) During the review session earlier this afternoon, we entirely discussed Midterm 2 from Spring 2002. No additional questions (from the book or from other exams) were discussed. However, I asked additional questions related to the old Midterm 2, e.g., in Question 1, what is the chance to draw 10 balls that are not red (when drawing with replacement), in Question 2, how can we use the r.m.s. error to determine whether a height of 75 inches for a date is unusual when the woman is 67 inches tall, and in Question 3, how a better sample might be drawn and which problems still might occur with this better sample, etc. With respect to question 4, I commented that here the individual steps were still clearly listed - this may not always be the case...
  
  The same formulas and table will be provided as last Spring.
  
  Good luck with your preparations! (11/7/2002)
  
  
• 12) Study Guide for the Final. (12/5/2002)
  
  
• 13) Quiz 12 (Take-Home). (12/8/2002)
  
  
• 14) A review session for the Final for Section 006 will be held at the following place and time:
  
  • Tuesday 12/10/2002, 5-7pm, Bus 313
    
    
• 15) Here are the scores for Quizzes 1 through 12, the Extra Credit (from Quiz 12), the sum of the 10 best Quizzes, the Extra Credit (unintentionally listed twice), Midterm 1 & 2, the Final, and the TOTAL and GRADE: Stat 1040, Section 006 SCORES.
  
  There is no name, SSN, or any other identification on this page. You need to know (or guess) what your scores for Midterm 1 & 2 are to identify your TOTAL and GRADE.
  
  If you cannot identify yourself or if some numbers are incorrect, please e-mail me as soon as possible. However, you have to provide me with your original Quiz or Midterm (just claiming you had 10 more points in a particular Quiz is not enough - you really have to show me this score).
  
  The final was worth 40% of the overall grade. So, the number of points for each question has been multiplied by a factor of 4. This means that 400 points was the maximum possible score in the final. Overall, there was a maximum of 1000 points to be obtained this semester.
  
  Final grade cutoffs were similar to the cutoffs use throughout the semester for Quizzes and the Midterms with 4% to 5% increments for (almost) all grades. This means: below 48%: F, above 48%: D, above 54%: D+, above 62%: C-, above 66%: C, above 71%: C+, above 75%: B-, above 79%: B, above 84%: B+, above 88%: A-, and above 90%: A. I typically awarded the next higher grade if someone was within 1 to 3 points of the next highest cutoff, e.g., 898 = 89.8% was still an A (and not an A-).
  
  Please e-mail in case of any questions. (12/15/2002).