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: Graphing and Describing data

Chapter 2 and Section 3-2

Jan 24: Class 3: Comparing different data sets

Sections: 3-3 to 3-5

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

Chapter: 4

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

Chapter: 5

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

Feb 21: Class 7: Normal probability distributions

Sections: 6-1 to 6-4

Feb 28: Class 8: Sampling, estimating population parameters

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

Mar 6: Class 9: More: estimations

Sections: 7-4, 7-5

Mar 13: Class 10: Hypothesis testing

Sections: 8-1 to 8-5

Mar 20: Class 11: Exam #2, Catch up!

Mar 24-28: Spring Break: No class

Apr 3: Class 12: Inferences from two samples

Sections: 9-1 to 9-4

Apr 10: Class 13: Correlation and regression, Contingency tables

Chapters: 10, 11

Apr 17: Class 14: Project reports

Apr 24: Class 15: Final Exam