Math 1100: Data, Probability, Statistics and Risk

Dr. M.

Professor James J. Madden Office phone: 578-1580 Email: madden@math.lsu.edu

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Handouts, assignments and resources.

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Information about this course (PDF).

Week 1 (Aug. 26, 28, 30). Data: Collecting and using data.

• Summary and homework (PDF).
• Quiz 1, answered (PDF).

Week 2 (Sept. 4, 6). Data: The concept of a variable.

• Reading on Variables (PDF). Handed out 9/4/2002. Please finish reading this by 9/6/2002.
• Read sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of your book. Do exercises 2.1: 5 - 62, 2.2: 12, 21 - 25, 2.3: 11 - 16, 30 - 33 (do not hand in). Complete by Monday, September 9.
• Assignment 2 (PDF). Given out 9/6/2002; due 9/13.
• Help on assignment 2 (PDF). A set of notes, including student work from previous classes that shows what to do and what not to do.
• Quiz 2 (PDF) (given 9/6/2002).
• Quiz 2 answered (PDF).

Week 3 (Sept. 9,11, 13). Data: The concept of a distribution.

• Reading on distributions, frequency tables and relative frequency (PDF). Handed out September 11, 2002.
• Students respond to the question: ``How do you like this class so far?''(PDF)
• Quiz 3 (PDF) (given 9/13/2002).

Week 4 (Sept. 16, 18, 20). Probability: Statistical significance, randomness and relative frequency.

• Assignment: Read section 6.1 of your book and study the review questions.
• The Odds of That. Read about the mysterious conspiaracy (?) to murder the nation's bioscientists.
• Quiz 4 (PDF) (given 9/20/2002). This is a take-home quiz due in class Monday, 9/23/2002.
• Quiz 4 HTML version.

Week 5 (Sept. 23, 25, 27). Probability: The language of experiments, outcomes and events.

• Assignment: Read section 6.2 of your book and study the review questions.
• Probability exercises (HTML Version). Handed out 9/27/2002; due date extended.

Week 6 (Sept. 30, Oct. 2, Lili). Probability: The language of experiments, outcomes and events, continued.

• Look at These Links:
  • The Law of Large Numbers.
  • Psychic Test Demonstration. (Really a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers, but with a twist.)
• The Wild "M" recommends: Can you behave randomly? A GREAT web-based lesson.

Week 7 (Oct. 7, 9, Fall Break). Probability: The language of experiments, outcomes and events, continued.

• Oct 7. Concept mapping. Experiments, outcomes and events. Hand out.
• Oct 9. Tree diagrams.
• Review sheet for test.

Week 8 (Oct. 14, 16, 18). Review day (10/14), Test (10/16). Probability review.

Week 9 (Oct. 21, 23, 25). Probability: The binomial distribution.

Week 10 (Oct. 21, 23, 25). Probability: The binomial distribution.

• Notes on the binomial coefficients (PDF)

Week 11. Statistics: Testing Hypotheses.

• Oct. 28, 2002. See notes from October 25. Also see handout from Freedman.
• Oct. 30, 2002. Notes for assignment given Oct. 30, due November 4. (PDF).
• Nov. 1, 2002.
  • Notes from class Friday, Nov.1. (PDF)
  • Homework assignment. An experiment (based on Fisher's lady tasting tea).
  • Fifty random assignments of 4 As and 4 Bs to the numbers 1--10. (May be used with Nov. 1 assignment.)

Week 12. Statistics: Margin of Error and Level of Confdence.

• Nov. 4, 2002. Overview for weeks 12 and 13.
• Nov. 6, 2002.
• Nov. 8, 2002.

Week 13. Statistics: Margin of Error and Level of Confdence (continued).

• Nov. 11, 2002. Lecture notes
• Nov. 13, 2002.
• Nov. 15, 2002.
• Some animated graphics that go with this week's ideas:
  • Theoretical sampling distribution
    • as p varies
    • as sample size varies
  • Empirical approximates theoretical
  • Binomial compared to normal

Week 14. Statistics: Correlation.

• Nov. 18, 2002. Quiz | New topic: Correlation
• Nov. 20, 2002. Homework.
• Nov. 22, 2002.

Week 15. Statistics: Review. Exam 2.

• Nov. 25, 2002. Common themes in hypothesis testing, sampling and regression. Significance and P-value.
• Nov. 27, 2002. Exam 2 is a take-home exam, due Dec. 2, 2002. Exam Problems (PDF) | "Attached sheet"
• Nov. 29, 2002. Thanksgiving Holiday.

Week 16. Review

• Dec. 2, 2002. Concepts in data and probability.
• Dec. 4, 2002. Can you act randomly? Analysis of student data (300 "random" 0s and 1s)
• Dec. 6, 2002. Retrospective.

Study hard! See you in class!

Development of this course was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant #9980995.