STA 225 Introduction to Statistical Concepts and Reasoning

Fall 2008

Course Information

  • Information Sheet

  • Students' Website of the TextBook

  • Errata

  • Data Sets in Excel Format

  • Data Sets in ASCII Format

  • Lecture Notes

    1. Chapter 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs

    2. Chapter 2: Describing Distributions with Numbers

    3. Chapter 3: The Normal Distributions

    4. Chapter 4: Scatterplots and Correlation

    5. Chapter 5: Regression

    6. Chapter 6: Two-Way Tables

    7. Chapters 8 & 9: Producing Data

    8. Chapters 10 & 12: Probability

    9. Chapter 11: Sampling Distributions

    10. Chapters 14, 15, & 18: Confidence Intervals

    11. Chapters 15, 16, & 18: Hypothesis Testing

  • Homework

    1. Chapter 1, due on Thursday, Sept. 18 at the beginning of the class

      Problems: 1.24, 1.26, 1.28, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.36, 1.37, 1.38, 1.44.

      Solutions to Homework of Chapter 1

    2. Chapters 2 & 3, due on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at the beginning of the class

      Problems: 2.30, 2.36, 2.40, 3.26, 3.36, 3.42, 3.46, 3.47, 3.48, 3.50

      Solutions to Homework of Chapters 2 and 3

    3. Chapters 4 & 5, WILL NOT BE COLLECTED

      Problems: 4.24, 4.26, 4.28, 4.30, 5.24, 5.26, 5.31, 5.40, 5.42, 5.46.

      Solutions to Homework of Chapters 4 and 5

    4. Chapters 6, 8 & 9 due on Thursday, Oct. 16 at the beginning of the class

      Problems: 6.22, 6.28, 8.28, 8.36, 9.26, 9.28, 9.30, 9.32, 9.40, 9.46.

      Solutions to Homework of Chapters 6, 8 and 9

    5. Chapters 10 & 12 due on Thursday, Oct. 23 at the beginning of the class

      Problems: 10.32, 10.40, 10.44, 10.48, 10.50, 12.43, 12.44, 12.45, 12.46, 12.52.

      Solutions to Homework of Chapters 10 and 12

    6. Chapters 11, 14 & 18 due on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the beginning of the class

      Problems: 11.36, 11.38, 14.26, 14.28, 14.30, 14.32, 18.26, 18.30, 18.39, 18.40.

      Solutions to Homework of Chapters 11, 14, and 18

    7. Chapters 15, 16, and 18 WILL NOT BE COLLECTED

      Problems: 15.36, 15.40, 15.54, 16.50, 18.41, 18.43, 18.44.

  • Course Announcement

    1. Office hours are changed from MW 2:30PM to 3:30PM to TUTH 2:30PM to 3:30PM

    2. A textbook has been put on the reserved shelf in Kresge Library


    Last modified on 11/06/08