MATH 400 Schedule and Homework

************WEEK 1*************

Aug 26:  Unit 1:  Look Before You Leap (population densities,
california earthquakes)

HW 1 (due 9/4):  Population densities (1, 2, 3), Earthquakes (6, 7, 8, 9)

Aug 28:  Introduction to R

************WEEK 2*************

Sept 2:  Unit 1:  Look Before You Leap (california earthquakes,
student heights, speed of light)

Sept 4:  Unit 2:  Tasting Chocolate Pudding (taste testing
activity using colas, introduction to testing)

************WEEK 3*************

Sept 9:  Unit 2:  Tasting Chocolate Pudding (nonparametric 
and parametric tests about a mean -- focus on sign test)

HW 2 (due 9/16):  Tasting Chocolate Pudding (1, 2, 5, 7 (also sign 
test))

Sept 11:  Special presentation by John Chen

************WEEK 4**************

Sept 16:  Unit 3:  Lead Absorption in Children

HW 3 (due 9/25):  Lead Absorption in Children (2, 3, 6, 7, 12)

Sept 18:  Lead Absorption (cont), Unit 4:  Measuring Person's Height

************WEEK 5**************

Sept 23:  Measuring Person's Height (cont)

HW 3, part b (due 9/25) Unit 4: Measuring Person's Height (1, 2, 3)

Sept 25:  Unit 5:  Time to Choose

HW 4 (due 10/2):  Time to Choose (1, 2, 4, 10, 11)

***********WEEK 6***************

Sept 30:  Time to Choose (cont)

HW 4 -- do normal probability plot activity

Oct 2:  Unit 6:  Interest Rates on Saving

HW 5 (due 10/8):  Interest Rates (1, 2, 4, 5, 9)

***********WEEK 7****************

Oct 7:  Unit 6: Interest Rates on Saving (cont)

An Election Poll

Florida 2006:  Can Statistics Tell Us Who Won Congressional District 13?

Oct 9:  Fall Break

***********WEEK 8****************

Oct 14:  Introduction to the bootstrap

HW 6 (due 10/16) :  bootstrap homework

Oct 16:  Unit 7:  Infants Learning to Walk
Analysis of variance

HW 7 (due 10/23) Infants Learning to Walk
part A:  By exploring the Internet, answer these questions:
(a)  What is an average time to start walking?
(b)  Can you say something about the variability in this time?
(c) What are some variables that might influence the time
that an infant starts walking?
(Given the web pages that you found helpful.)
part B:  (1, 2, 6, 9)

***********WEEK 9*****************

Oct 21   Unit 7:  Infants Learning to Walk
examples of lurking variable - Chance article

Oct 23:  Unit 8:  Classifying Irises
Activity doing some classification for riding mower
example.

HW 8 (due 10/30) Classifying Irises (1, 2, 5, 9)

***********WEEK 10****************

Oct 28:  Classifying Irises and Election Preview  

Oct 30:  A Computer Simulation of the United States Presidential Election, Dr. Chris Rump, 
4:00 PM room 115 Education building (Jenson auditorium) 

HW 9 (due 11/6) Elementary, my Dear Statistician (2, 3, 5, 7, 9)

***********WEEK 11****************

Nov 4:  Unit 9:  Elementary, my Dear Statistician

Nov 6:  Unit 10:  Smoking and Survival

HW 10 (due 11/13) Unit 10:  Smoking and Survival (1, 3, 9, 11)

***********WEEK 12****************

Nov 11:  NO CLASS -- Veteran's Day

Nov 13:  Unit 11:  Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

HW 11 (due 11/20) Unit 11:  Correlation Does Not Imply Causation (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)

***********WEEK 13****************

Nov 18:  Unit 11:  Correlation Does Not Imply Causation 

Nov 20:  Computer Lab – plotting and fitting lines
Unit 12:  How Faithful is Old Faithful?

***********WEEK 14****************

Nov 25  Auto Club Calls (special case study)

HW 12 (due 12/4)  Unit 12, 4 (R code given on the website)

Nov 27  Thanksgiving

***********WEEK 15*****************

Dec 2:  Unit 13:  Patterns in Airline Schedules

HW 13 (due 12/11)  Unit 13, 1, 2, 6, 8

Data collection assignment – due by Thursday at 10 am:  For one of the major airlines (I’ll tell you which Airline to collect), collect schedule data for 10 flights – choose 5 that fly East and choose 5 that travel West.  Collect the same variables c1-c7 that are described on page 13-1, put your data into an Excel spreadsheet and email me your spreadsheet as an attachment.

Dec 4:  Looking at flight schedule data from students.
Evaluating guards from a NBA – illustrating multiple regression

***********WEEK 16*****************

Dec 9:  Presentation of Chance article on World Cup data

Dec 11:  Exploring pitchfx data in baseball

**********Final exam week**********

Tuesday, Dec 16, 10:45 – Presentations of Chance articles

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