Final Review Problems

April 30, 2012

Some review problems

ANOVA Excel Example

April 23, 2012

An examlpe of using Excel to calculate ANOVA.

Exam 3 Solutions

April 18, 2012

Exam solutions are posted in the Exam section.

Excel Example of Two Way Table

April 16, 2012

Excel file (or .xls version) for the in class example of computing the p-value of a two way table.

Remaining Homework Online

March 19, 2012

The remaining homework in the class has been posted below.

Tutor Room Closed

March 5, 2012

Over the next 3 weeks the Math East building will be closed due to construction. The tutor room has been moved to Disability Resource Center room B116. This room is on the ground floor of the DRC in the southwest corner, and is labeled on the directory outside the building. Here is a map showing the location of the DRC relative to Math East. The hours of the totur room have been shortened to:

  • Mondays 1-4
  • Tuesday 11-4
  • Wednesdays 11-4
  • Thursdays 11-3
  • Fridays 11-2

During this time I will be holding an office hour on Mondays at 11. The Tuesday tutor hour will be in the temporary tutor room in DRC B116

Exam 2 Solutions

March 2, 2012

Exam solutions are posted in the Exam section.

Benford's Law

February 10, 2012

An interesting page on Benford's Law. See the uses in detecting possible fraud in Iran's Election and Greece's economic problems.

Exam 1 Solutions

February 2, 2012

Exam solutions are posted in the Exam section.

Beginning Chapter 2

January 23, 2012

Some links for a discussion of scatterplots:

A short list of countries by population and gdp, and a longer list.

Welcome to Math 263

January 11, 2012

I'd like to welcome everyone to the website for MATH 263 Section 1, Intro to Statistics and Biostatistics. Here you'll find all the important documents for the course, along with homework assignments and test announcements. See the sidebar for important links for this course.

This class uses WebAssign for some homeworks. To do these, you will be required to purchase a WebAssign access card. New versions of the textbook will come with this card. The textbook can be purchased Freeman Publishing for $99.95, which comes with 6 months of WebAssign Access

WebAssign requires that all members give their university, and a class key to get the assignments. Our class code is arizona 4255 2439.

There are 8 homeworks though this class that use Excel (see the list). Complete the first 14 pages of this tutorial to get a quick introduction to Excel.

Death Penalty Statistics for the first lecture.

Histogram 1 and Histogram 2 showing the income distribution of American households in 2000 and 2005, respectively.

Excel Homework Assignments

Number Background & Questions Spreadsheet with Data Due Date
1 (notes) .doc .pdf .xlsx Jan 20
2 .doc .pdf .xlsx Feb 3
3 .doc .pdf .xlsx Feb 17
4 .doc .pdf .xlsx Mar 2
5 .doc .pdf .xlsx Mar 9
6 (notes) .doc .pdf .xlsx Mar 30
7 .doc .pdf .xlsx Apr 20
8 .doc .pdf .xlsx Apr 27

Additional Notes:

Written Homework Assignments

Number Problems Due date
1 1.39, 1.89, 1.145, 2.35, 2.47 Jan 27
2 2.106, 3.36, 3.52 Feb 10
3 4.20, 4.54, 4.116 Feb 24
4 6.20, 6.55, 7.28, 8.22 Apr 6

WebAssign Assignments

Section Due Date Section Due Date Section Due Date
1.1 Jan 20 1.2 Jan 23 1.3 Jan 25
2.1 Jan 27 2.2 Jan 30 2.3 Jan 31
2.4 Feb 6 2.6 Feb 7
3.1 Feb 9 3.2 Feb 13
4.2 Feb 16 4.5 Feb 21 4.3 Feb 24
4.4 Feb 28
5.1 Mar 20 3.3 Mar 21 5.2 Mar 23
6.1 Mar 27 6.2 Mar 29
7.1 Apr 3 7.2 Apr 5
8.1 Apr 10 8.2 Apr 12
9 Apr 26 12 May 1

Exam Announcements

Tentative dates for the exams:

The final exam follows the university schedule.

  • Final Exam: Monday, May 7, 10:30-12:30

Important Dates

  • January 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no class
  • January 19: Last day to use UAccess to add a class
  • February 7: Last day to use UAccess to drop a class
  • March 6: Last day to drop class with instructor signature
  • March 12-16: Spring Break, no class
  • May 2: Last day of classes