Contents

• Announcements (Updated 2/22/02)
• Email and Office Hours
• Lecture and Lab Schedule
• Course Information
• Assignments (Assignment 14 posted 4/30/02)
• Lecture notes (Lectures 1 through 42 posted)
• Questions and Answers
• Information on calculators
• Sample Midterm and Final Exams (Sample Final posted)
• Solutions to both Midterm Exams
• Official Disclaimer

On Mondays and Fridays, the lecture will be in 1701 University Avenue, Room 14. Since the room is big enough, I will go back to the original exam schedule, Mondays February 25 and April 1, in the classroom. On Wednesdays, the lecture will continue to be in G55 Peik Gym.

Instructor

Christopher Bingham
    372 Ford Hall, 612-625-1024, email kb@umn.edu
    Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm or by appointment

Teaching Assistants

Xuerong (Meggie) Wen (wenxr@stat.umn.edu)
   Office Hours: Thursday 2:30 - 3:30, Friday 11:15-12:15, 352 Ford Hall
Matt Gregas, email: matt@stat.umn.edu, Phone: 612-626-9190
   Office hours: 11:15-12:15 Tuesdays, 352 Ford

When you email, please identify yourself as a student in Stat 3011 (if you are)

Lecture and Lab Schedule

The lecture is MWF 10:10 - 11:00 a.m., Peik Gym G55 (the location may change)

Starting Monday February 11, on Mondays and Fridays, the class will meet in Room 14 on the basement level of 1701 University Avenue, the former Newman Center.

On Wednesdays, it will continue to meet in Peik Gym G55.

The midterm exams will be on February 25 and April 1 in Room 14 at 1701 University

Lab Sections

Lab. Number	Time	Location	T.A.
5	Tuesday 9:05 - 9:55 a.m.	26 Lind Hall	Wen
6	Tuesday 10:10 - 11:00 a.m.	B53 Ford Hall	Wen
14	Tuesday 10:10 - 11:00 a.m.	236a Physics	Gregas

Examination Schedule (tentative)

Examination	Date	Location
First Midterm	Monday February 25	1701 University Ave., Room 14
Second Midterm	Monday April 1	1701 University Ave., Room 14
Final	Friday May 17, 1:30 - 3:30	1701 University Ave., Room 14

Announcements

• The second midterm exam have been graded and returned. Because of the low mean and median of the grade distribution when they are combined with other scores I will rescale tham as
      Rescaled grade = 50 + 2×(raw score)/3.
• 3/4/02 First Midterm exams have been graded. They will be returned in Lab on March 5. The distribution of grades is negatively skewed with values running from 24 to 70 (maximum possible)
• 2/22/02 I have changed the due date for Assignment 5. It will be due on Friday, March 1.
• 2/6/02 Starting the week of Monday, February 11, on Mondays and Fridays the class will meet room 14 in the basement level of 1701 University Avenue. On Wednesdays, it will continue to meet in Peik Gym G55.
• 1/23/02 Lab section #5 (9:05 Tuesday) will henceforth meet in 206 Vincent Hall
• 1/18/02 The first lab session will be Tuesday January 22. Read pp. 3-20 of Moore.

Course Information

See the course information sheet (PDF file) for information on grading and other course policies.

Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics, 2nd Edition, by David S. Moore, W. H. Freeman, 2000. There is a web page supporting the book. This has some of the material on the CDROM disk that comes with the book.

All students should have at least a two variable statistics calculator with functions for the mean and standard deviation plus the correlation coefficient and the least squares regression line.

I will probably posting edited copies of the overheads used in lectures as Acrobat PDF files to be downloaded. You will need a password to be announced in class to access them. They will not be available before the lecture.

Assignments

I have made up a tentative list of reading assignments for the semester (PDF file)

• Assignment 1 (PDF file)
• Assignment 2 (PDF file)
• Assignment 3 (PDF file)
• Assignment 4 (PDF file)
• Assignment 5 (PDF file)
• Assignment 6 (PDF file)
• Assignment 7 (PDF file)
• Assignment 8 (PDF file)
• Assignment 9 (corrected 4/2/01) (PDF file)
• Assignment 10 (PDF file)
• Assignment 11 (PDF file)
• Assignment 12 (PDF file)
• Assignment 13 (PDF file)
• Assignment 14 (PDF file)

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Class notes and overheads
I will be posting on the web edited copies of the overheads used in lectures. You can download them from http://www.stat.umn.edu/~kb/classes/3011/classnotes.html. You will need the special user name and password announced in class to access them.

Questions and Answers on Assignments

Topics included as of 1/19/02

• Making a stemplot for the populations of the 51 states and D.C.

Handouts and sample exams

• Sample first midterm examination (PDF file)
• Sample second midterm examination ( PDF file)
• Sample final examination (PDF file)

Solutions to exams

• Solutions to first midterm examination (PDF file)
• Solutions to second midterm examination file (PDF file)

Calculator Resources

A number of you have powerful Texas Instruments calculators but no longer heve the instruction manual. You may be able to get help from the Web. From this Texas Instruments you can link to a page for any TI calculator model. There you will be able to link to a page where you can download a guide for the model.

If you have found a useful site with information on other calculators, please send me email (kb@umn.edu) and I will make it available here.

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The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.

C Bingham kb@umn.edu

Updated Sat May 11 11:09:08 CDT 2002