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Past
Assignments and Solutions
Due Friday, January 6:
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Complete the
student personal information online. This should
be submitted before 9:30 AM on Friday.
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Read Chapter 1 in the textbook, p. 1-11. This provides a nice
introduction to the course.
- Please read the
following from the textbook:
- Chapter 15, p. 207-211 and 221-224 (on p. 221,
start at the beginning of section 15.5). You can skip
the material on p. 212-220 for now; it relies on other topics
from earlier in the textbook that we haven't covered yet.
- Chapter 16, p. 231-238.
Chapters 15 and 16
relate to the material you are working on in
class on 1/6 and 1/8.
When reading the textbook, I strongly
encourage you to read actively with pencil and paper handy.
In particular,
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Carefully work through the examples
by hand as you read them and make sure that you follow
and understand all of the details.
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Work carefully through the "Quick
Exercises" that are interspersed through the text.
Working through these brief exercises will help you to make
sure that you are understanding what you are reading and
able to put it into practice. Answers for all quick
exercises can be found at the end of each chapter so that
you can immediately check your answers.
Due Monday, January 9:
- Turn in your solutions for the questions in the handout
that you worked on in class on Wednesday and Friday. You
should have been working in pairs on these questions; please
turn in ONE copy for your group, not separate copies for
each individual. If you did not complete all of the
questions in class, please complete them as homework.
Make sure that you include printed copies of your graphs
from Minitab.
Solutions
Due Wednesday, January 11:
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Turn in solutions for exercises 15.1, 15.2, 15.9,
16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.10, and 16.11 from the textbook.
For exercise 16.3, note that the textbook defines
quartiles in a different manner from the handout you
worked through in class last week. Please compute
the quartiles BOTH ways. How do they compare?
Solutions
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Read Chapter 2 in the textbook, p. 13-21.
Due Friday, January 13:
- Nothing will be collected. However, you will
probably be asked to complete a portion of the handout that
we've been working on in class.
Due Monday, January 23:
Note adjustments below due to the snow
days!
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Make sure that you have purchased a license
for the ResponseWare system and set up your account.
We will use it in class on Monday.
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Exercises 1 through 7 from the
last two pages of the
handout given
out in class. Also turn in Exercises 2.1, 2.3,
2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.15, and 2.16 from chapter 2 of the
textbook.
Solutions
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If you have not yet applied for a major, please
submit your application.
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Please work through all of the questions on
pages 2-10 to 2-13 of the
handout given
out in class. These will NOT be collected, but we will
go over them in class on Monday, and I'll be asking you to
submit some of your answers via the ResponseWare system.
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Please also work through the questions in
the Bayes' Theorem handout
that I sent to you by e-mail. These will also not be
collected, but we'll go through them in class.
Due Wednesday, January 25:
- Please read the
following from the textbook:
- Read Chapter 3, p. 25-36.
- Read Chapter 4, p. 41-51.
- Get started on the homework below which will be
collected on Friday (it was handed out at the end of
class on Monday). You might focus on #1-5 from the
handout and 3.2, 3.3, and 3.18 from the book for now.
The other exercises (6-8 from handout and 3.4 and 3.11
from book) deal with Bayes' theorem, which we'll look at
in more detail in class on Wednesday.
Due Friday, January 27:
Due Monday, January 30:
- Please read Chapter 5 from the textbook.
- Turn in exercises 1, 2, 4, and 5 from the end of the
Methods of Enumeration handout.
Solutions
- In addition, please work through the “Rolling Fair
Dice” activity from the Discrete Random Variables
handout. This will not be collected, but I'll ask
for some of your answers at the start of class on
Monday.
Due Wednesday, February 1:
Due Monday, February 6:
- Turn in solutions for
Homework #6.
Solutions
- Read Chapter 7 in the textbook. (You can skip
chapter 6.)
Due Wednesday, February 8:
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Turn in solutions for Homework #7.
Solutions
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Read and work through the questions on p.
6-5, 6-6, and 6-7 of the "Mathematical Expectation" handout.
These will not be collected, but please be prepared with
your answers at the start of class on Wednesday.
Due Friday, February 10:
Monday, February
13: Midterm Exam.
Information about the midterm and a copy of the
distributions
summary sheet that will be provided to you during the exam. Due Friday, February
17:
Due Wednesday, February
22:
Due Friday, February
24:
Due Wednesday,
February 29:
Due Friday, March 2:
Due Monday, March 5:
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Complete the rest of the
Sampling Distributions handout
that we worked on in class on Friday. This will
require substantial use of Minitab. On the last two
pages (the baseball salaries example), please make sure that
you use the revised version of the handout that I gave out
at the end of class rather than the original version in the
packet. (The revised version is also posted online at
the link above.)
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Please turn in your answers for the
questions for the baseball salaries example ONLY.
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You should complete all of the other
examples, but you do not need to turn in the results.
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Turn in printouts of all of your histograms
for the baseball salary example.
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As a part of your answer for the very last
question, you should include some discussion of your results
from the other examples, not just the baseball example.
So even though I'm not collecting the other parts, your
answer here should clearly reflect an understanding of the
results of the simulations from those other parts.
Due
Friday, March 9:
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