| Instructor | Man Cheung Tsui |
| tsui@rowan.edu | |
| Office | Robinson Hall Room 228B |
| Office Hours |
Tuesdays 4PM–6PM
Wednesdays 5PM–6PM |
| Course Syllabus | PDF (Section 3) and PDF (Section 4) list grading and other policies |
| Section 3 Meets | Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30PM–7:45PM in Science Hall 128 |
| Section 4 Meets | Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30AM–10:45AM in Robinson 324 |
| Canvas Grades |
Section 3 Section 4 |
| Optional Textbooks |
[ES] Larson, Farber, Elementary Statistics (any edition) [PS] Starnes, et al, The Practice of Statistics (any edition) [P] Walpole, Myers, Myers, Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists |
Quiz is given at end of class each Wednesday & Thursday;
Homework is submitted in class at the same time as the quizzes;
Lessons and exams follow the schedule below.
| Schedule | Textbook | Notes | Homework | Practice Problems |
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Descriptive Statistics
1 - Visualizing data
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[ES] 1.2, 2.1, 2.3 [PS] 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 |
Practice | ||
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Descriptive Statistics
2 - Summary parameters
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[ES] 2.4 [PS] 1.3 |
Practice | ||
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Descriptive Statistics
3 - Position in distribution
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[ES] 2.5 [PS] 2.1, 2.2 |
PDF Colab To learn R |
Practice | |
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Descriptive Statistics
4 - Critiquing data
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[PS] 1.3 |
PDF Colab |
PDF Sec. 3 due Thurs Feb 5. Sec. 4 due Wed Feb 11. |
See below |
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Design of studies
5 - Sampling
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[ES] 1.3 [PS] 4.1 |
See below | ||
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Design of studies
6 - Design of studies
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[ES] 1.3 [PS] 4.2 |
Practice | ||
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Probability
7 - Sample space, events, counting
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[P] 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 | Practice | ||
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Probability
8 - Probability
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[P] 2.3, 2.4 | |||
Exam 1
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Solutions: Exam 1A Exam 1B |
Practice problems are now found in lecture notes:
| Schedule continued | Textbook | Notes | Homework |
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Probability
8 - Probability 2
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[P] 2.3, 2.4 | ||
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Probability
9 - Conditional probability
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[P] 2.5, 2.6 |
PDF Solutions Sec. 3 due Thurs Mar 5. Sec. 4 due Wed Mar 4. |
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Probability
10 - Probability of AND11 - Independence |
[P] 2.6 |
PDF |
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Probability
12 - Bayes' rule
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[P] 2.7 |
PDF Slides |
PDF Sec. 3 due Thurs Mar 12. Sec. 4 due Wed Mar 11. |
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Random variable
13 - Random variables
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[P] 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | Blank | |
Exam 2
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Practice Exam | ||
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Confidence interval
Etc.
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Hypothesis testing
Test for the mean ($\sigma$ known)
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[ES] 7.1, 7.2 [PS] 9.1, 9.3 |
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Hypothesis testing
Test for the mean ($\sigma$ unknown)
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[ES] 7.3 [PS] 9.3 |
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| TBD | |||
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Hypothesis testing
Test for proportions
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[ES] 7.4 [PS] 9.2 |
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| TBD | |||
Exam 3
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| TBD | |||
Final Exam
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