Math 542 Class schedule The following plan is tentative and will be adjusted as necessary.

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Jan 10: Class 1: Orientation; Types of data, Design of Experimants, Statistical uses & abuses

Chapter: 1; Video: "How to display data badly"

Jan 17: Class 2: Describing data

Sections: 2-1 to 2-5

Jan 24: Class 3: Comparing different data sets

Sections: 2-5 to 2-7

Jan 31: Class 4: Probability; Basic probability, conditional probability, counting, simulations

Chapter: 3

Feb 7: Class 5: Random variables, Binomial probability distributions

Chapter: 4

Feb 14: Class 6: Exam #1, Catch up!

Feb 21: Class 7: Normal probability distributions

Sections: 5-1 to 5-4

Feb 28: Class 8: Sampling, estimating population parameters

Sections: 5-5 to 5-7 and 6-1 to 6-3

Mar 7: Class 9: More: estimations

Sections: 6-4 to 6-5

Mar 14: Class 10: Hypothesis testing

Sections: 7-1 to 7-3

Mar 21: Class 11: Exam #2, Catch up!

Mar 27-31: Spring Break: No class

Apr 4: Class 12: Hypothesis testing

Sections: 7-4 to 7-6

Apr 11: Class 13: Correlation and regression

Chapter: 9

Apr 18: Class 14: Contingency tables, Project reports

Chapter: 10

Apr 25: Class 15: Final Exam