STAT220: Course text and outline: Winter Quarter 2006
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The course text and other materials
The course text is
- Statistics by David Freedman, Robert Pisani and Roger Purves.
Norton, 3rd. edition, 1997.
Homework problems and readings will be assigned from the text. If you are
using an older edition of the text:
(a) it is very old!
(b) it is probaly not advisable, and
(c) it is your responsibility to make sure you do the correct
homework exercises.
The text will be abbreviated FPP in notes and homework assignments.
All page numbers and section references will apply to the 3rd
edition (1997).
The textbook material will be supplemented. You are encouraged to
download and print out the skeleton copies of my overheads in advance
of class. These overheads are not intended to be complete
course documents. They will also have blanks which will be filled
in class.
You should have a calculator for use in class, in homeworks, in quiz,
and for exams. It does not need to be elaborate or expensive. A
square-root (sqrt) function is very useful.
Course outline (approximate overview only)
- WEEK 1 and WEEK 2:
Experiments, observational studies and sample surveys.
(FPP Chapters 1, 2, 19)
- WEEK 2-3: Summaries of data:
Graphical summaries: histograms etc. (FPP Chapter 3)
Numerical summaries: means, medians, quantiles, and standard deviation
(FPP Chapter 4)
- WEEK 4: The normal curve (FPP Chapter 5,6)
- WEEK 5-6: Correlation and association (FPP, Chapters 7,8,9)
- WEEK 6-7: Regression (FPP Chapters 10,11,12)
- WEEK 8: Chance and randomness (FPP Chapters 16,17,18)
- WEEK 9: Accuracy and measurement error (FPP Chapters 20, 23,24)
- WEEK 10: Confidence intervals and tests of significance (FPP Chapters 21, 26, 27)