## Intro. to Statistics - Spring 2019 - MWF 9-9:50am - Room 228

### Instructor: Ted Wetherbee

Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College
2101 14th Street
Cloquet, Minnesota 55720

Office: W217
Phone: 218-879-0840
Email: ted@fdltcc.edu

Spring 2019 Class Schedule:
9- 9:50am M W F Statistics            Room 228
10-10:50pm M W F College Algebra       Room 228
12-12:50pm M W   Intro. to Programming Room 208
6- 8:45pm   W   Statistics            Room 256

Office Hours in Room W217:
Monday   Wednesday  Friday
11-noon  11-noon    11-noon
1-2      5-6


### Course Website: http://cs.fdltcc.edu/wetherbee/m1030d/

All materials handed out in class will be online from this web site. For easier recollection, you can find this course from this URL: math.fdltcc.edu

All current and past assignments are on the course website listed by date under the tentative schedule.

### Text (online: Free)

Introductory Statistics
Online: (HTML, Satlor.org)

local PDFs


I strongly recommend that you DO NOT print out the entire textbook. Save the PDF or Kindle somewhere for your reference. It is a 896 page document! As usual for such textbooks, it covers all bases. You will probably read some sections carefully but skip through most. You will surely not do every exercise, but plenty of exercises are there for your practice and reference.

### Calculators, Computers, PEDs (Personal Electronic Devices)

You may have a calculator already, but make sure that it is a scientific calculator. If you need to buy one, I recommend a cheap calculator like a TI-30XS. This does what you need, and the bookstore sells them for under \$20 .

The TI 83+ and 84 are the most popular TI models, but the TI 85 and 86 also work well. Casio also has nice graphing calculators. The TI 89 is harder to use for this class and is just about the same cost as a mini- notebook computer which can be loaded up with free and better mathematical software. In any case, bring a scientific calculator to class. You can use these for exams and quizzes.

Do not play games, email, text, chat, surf, talk, etc. etc. on your PEDs. Turn these things off during class and put them away. At times a PED, laptop, or other computer device may be useful in class. Still, turn them off and put them away until you are told when they will be useful and allowed. PEDs and computers are not allowed for exams or quizzes.

4 tests     4x100 = 400
1 final             200
20 homework 5x20 =  100
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700 total

90-100%   A
80-90%    B
70-80%    C
60-70%    D
0-60%     F


### The Course

This course addresses FDLTCC liberal education requirements (Competencies Across the Curriculum) in problem solving and technology. You should come to class everyday! This is the easy way to do well in any course, and it is especially true for math classes. There are exercises in the text for you to do, and these are usually answered at the end of each chapter. You will also get homework assignments on handouts, and you should complete then hand these in at the beginning of the next class. You homework grade is based on completing and turning in these homework handouts. You will also get sample exams which will be similar in length and content to the in-class exams. Let me know if there is are accommodations you need for the class.

### Tentative Schedule

Mon jan14  1 1 1.1 intro. to statistics
1 1.2 overview
1 1.3 presentation of data
h1
Wed jan16  2 2 2. descriptive statistics; 2.1 displaying data
h2
Fri jan18  3 2.2 mean
2.3 variance
h3 (corrected)

Mon jan21  Holiday
Wed jan23  4 2.3 variance
Fri jan25  5 2.4 relative position

Mon jan28  6 2.5 STD DEV and Chebyshev's theorem
Wed jan30  7
Fri feb01  8 Review Sample Test 1

Mon feb04  9 Test 1
Wed feb06 10
Fri feb08 11 3. probability h4

Mon feb11 12 binomial probabilities h5
Wed feb13 13
Fri feb15 14 4. discrete random variables

Mon feb18 Holiday
Wed feb20 15
Fri feb22 16

Mon feb25 17 Review Review Sample Test 2
Wed feb27 18 Test 2
Fri mar01 19 5. continuous random variables h6

Mon mar04 20
Wed mar06 21
Fri mar08 22

Spring Break

Mon mar18 23
Wed mar20 24 Test 3
Fri mar22 25 Normal approximation to the binomial distribution h7

Mon mar25 26 6. sampling distributions h8
Wed mar27 27
Fri mar29 28 7. estimation h9

Mon apr01 29 h10
Wed apr03 30
Fri apr05 31 h11
Clinton vs. Trump

Mon apr08 32
Wed apr10 33
Fri apr12 34 Review Sample Test 4

Mon apr15 35 Test 4
Wed apr17 36 8. testing hypotheses h12
Fri apr19 37

Mon apr22 38
Wed apr24 39
Fri apr26 40 9. 2-sample problems

Mon apr29 41 10. correlation and regression
data: Data Sets
Minnesota Counties and Cities
Wed may01 42 11. Chi-square and F-tests (1-way ANOVA)
Fri may03 43

Mon may06 44 Final exam review;  Sample Final
Wed may08 T1
Thu may09 Holiday
Fri may10 T2 10-12 room 228 (math1010), 12-2 room 208 (csci1020)

Mon may13 T3 9-11 room 228 (math1030-day)
Tue may14 T4


Plagiarism

Plagiarism, or presenting the writing of another as your own (a.k.a. “copying”), results in an F for this course and is subject to any other disciplinary actions mandated by this institution and the Minnesota State system.

Disabilities Notice

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