Stat 2000, Section 001, Homework Assignment 2 (30 Points)

(1/22/2010 - Due Friday 1/29/2010 by 9:35am)

• 0) Reading: Section 1.2
  
  
• 1) Please work on the following textbook exercises in Moore/McCabe/Craig:
  
  
  • Exercise 1.34, 1.41, 1.43, 1.46, 1.56, 1.60 (4 points each)
    
    Try to use a computer and software of your choice where possible. Include printouts and/or screendumps of your results. Hint: You can create a time plot via the "scatterplot" option where you display time on the x-axis and the variable of interest on the y-axis.
    
    The data are available from the links below. Cells in each row are separated by "tab". Note that Exercises 1.43 and 1.74 (in Homework 3) use the same data set.
    hw02_ex01_034.txt
    hw02_ex01_041.txt
    hw02_ex01_043_074.txt
    hw02_ex01_046.txt
    hw02_ex01_056.txt
    hw02_ex01_060.txt
    
    
• 2) Please work on the following textbook exercise in Moore/McCabe/Craig:
  
  
  • Exercise 1.37 (1 point)
    
    
• 3) Sums and Order Notation:
  Download the additional pdf and solve the five sums for the homework part from hw02_sums_order.pdf (5 x 1 point each = 5 points)
  
  
• 4) Extra Credit (EC):
  Download the additional pdf and solve the six sums for the extra credit part from hw02_sums_order.pdf (6 x 0.5 points each = 3 points)
  
  Please refer to hw01.html for additional information regarding the EC questions.