MA113 - Elementary Statistics

The following information is for Summer II 2019.

Course Information

Instructor: Wan-Chi Hsin

Lectures: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in EPC 207

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm in MCS B46B

Textbook: "STATISTICS: Informed Decisions Using Data" by Michael Sullivan, Fifth Edition, Pearson, 2017.

Semester Start / End Date: Monday, July 1 thru Thursday, August 8

Syllabus

Course Announcements

I will post important class updates here.

Date Reading Recommended Exercises Notes
7/1 (Mon) Section 1.1: p. 1-9
Section 1.2: p. 14-17
Section 1.3: p. 21-24
Section 2.1: p. 63-70
Section 1.1 #2-30, 39-42, 46-47
Section 1.2 #9-16
Section 1.3 #2-4
Section 2.1 #5-9, 11-21, 24
There is no class on 7/4 (Thursday).
7/2 (Tue) Section 2.2: p. 76-87
Section 3.1: p. 118-126
Section 3.2: p. 131-141
Section 3.4: p. 154-161
Section 2.2 #7-11, 17-29, 45
Section 3.1 #7-12, 15-21, 27, 29, 31-33, 37-38, 41
Section 3.2 #3-4, 9-10, 14, 19-25, 29-33, 35-36
Section 3.4 #7-8, 13-14, 17-26, 29-30
HW1 is posted and the due date is 7/8 (Monday).
7/3 (Wed) Section 3.5: p. 164-169
Section 4.1: p. 180-190
Section 3.5 #3-12
Review Exercises (p. 174-176) #1-5
Section 4.1 #1-13, 17-22, 26-27, 30-31, 45

Quiz 1: Done.

Reminder: Quiz 2 will be held next Monday and will focus on Chapter 3.

7/8 (Mon) Section 4.2: p. 197-205
Section 4.3.1: p. 211-214
Section 4.2 #1-14, 17-18, 20, 23-24, 29
Section 4.3 #1-3, 9-10

Quiz 2: Done.

HW2 is posted and the due date is 7/11 (Thursday).

Notice: Section 4.3.1 (The coefficient of determination) will still be covered on Midterm 1, but Section 4.3.2 and Section 4.3.3 will not be covered.

Reminder: Quiz 3 will be held on Wednesday and will focus on Chapter 4.

7/9 (Tue) Section 5.1: p. 247-257
Section 5.2: p. 262-269
Section 5.1 #3-9, 15-19, 27, 29, 35-43, 45-49
Section 5.2 #5-25, 30-33, 37-43
7/10 (Wed)

Quiz 3: Done.

7/11 (Thur) The solution key for HW2 is posted on Blackboard.
7/12 (Fri)

Exam 1: Done.

Note: There is no quiz next Monday (7/15).

7/15 (Mon) Section 5.3: p. 273-277
Section 5.4: p. 279-286
Section 5.3 #4-23, 25-32
Section 5.4 #2-8, 13-19, 21-28, 35-37, 41
HW3 is posted and the due date is 7/18 (Thursday).
7/16 (Tue) Section 5.5: p. 289-299
Section 6.1: p. 316-323
Section 5.5 #3, 13, 15, 21, 27-30, 39-40, 47-54, 61-66
Section 6.1 #6-26

Reminder: Quiz 4 will be held tomorrow and will focus on Chapter 5.

7/17 (Wed) Section 6.2: p. 327-339
Section 7.1: p. 356-362
Section 6.2 #6-16, 22-26, 30-33, 35-39, 43-36
Section 7.1 #13-18
7/18 (Thur) Section 7.2: p. 366-374
Section 7.4: p. 382-386
Section 7.2 #2-48
Section 7.4 #5-24, 27-28

HW4 is posted and the due date is 7/22 (Monday).

Note: HW5 is also posted. Free feel to start working on it earlier if you would like to do so.

Reminder: Quiz 5 will be held next Monday and will focus on Chapter 6.

7/22 (Mon)

Quiz 5: Done.

7/23 (Tue) Section 8.1: p. 395-403
Section 8.2: p. 408-412
Section 8.1 #4-26, 21, 23, 30-32
Section 8.2 #3-28, 21, 23, 25, 27
Ch8, Review Exercises #7-10

HW6 is posted and the due date is 7/30 (Tuesday).

Note: There is no quiz tomorrow.

Reminder: Exam 2 will be held on Thursday (7/25) and will focus on Ch5-Ch7.

7/25 (Thur)

Exam 2: Done.

Note: There is no quiz next Monday (7/29).

7/29 (Mon) Section 9.1: p. 421-431 Section 9.1 #3-20, 25-31, 34-40, 45-46
7/30 (Tue) Section 9.2: p. 435-442
Section 9.3: p. 449-453
Section 9.4: p. 455-456
Section 9.2 #2-20, 27, 30, 32, 40-41
Section 9.3 #1-11, 14-16
Section 9.4 #5-12, 18-20
Ch9, Review Exercises #9-12, 14-16
Ch. Test #3-7

HW7 is posted and the due date is 8/1 (Thursday).

Reminder: Quiz 6 will be held tomorrow and will focus on Chapter 8.

7/31 (Wed) Section 10.1: p. 473-478 Section 10.1 #6-11, 17-20, 22, 25-28
8/1 (Thur) Section 10.2: p. 480-490
Section 10.3: p. 494-500
Section 10.2 #1-12, 15-18, 23-25, 34-35
Section 10.3 #3-10, 13-14, 23-30, 33

HW8 (last homework) is posted and the due date is 8/6 (Tuesday).

Reminder: Quiz 7 (last quiz) will be held next Tuesday (8/6) and will focus on Chapter 9.

8/6 (Tue) Section 10.4: p. 504-508
Section 10.5: p. 510
Section 10.4 #3-9, 13, 16-17
Section 10.5 #5-9
Ch10, Review Exercises #7-11, 21-22

Quiz 7: Done.

Reminder: Final exam will be held on Thursday (8/8) during our regularly scheduled lecture (11:00 am - 1:00 pm).

Note: I will hold extra office hours tomorrow from 2:30 to 3:30 pm.

8/8 (Thur)

Final Exam: Done!

Homework

Homework Assigned Problems Due Date
HW #1 Section 2.1 #6, 13
Section 2.2 #11, 26
Section 3.1 #38
Section 3.2 #14, 32, 36
Section 3.4 #18, 22
7/8 (Monday)
HW #2 Section 3.5 #10
Section 4.1 #18, 26
Section 4.2 #6, 24
Section 4.3 #10
7/11 (Thursday)
HW #3 Section 5.1 #36
Section 5.2 #30, 40
Section 5.3 #16, 26
Section 5.4 #27, 36
7/18 (Thursday)
HW #4 Section 5.5 #40
Ch5, Review Exercises (p.310) #26
Section 6.1 #20, 24
Section 6.2 #30, 36, 44
Section 7.1 #18
7/22 (Monday)
HW #5 Section 7.2 #12, 18, 36, 48
Section 7.4 #22, 23
7/24 (Wednesday)
HW #6 Section 8.1 #16, 21, 22, 26
Section 8.2 #14, 16
7/30 (Tuesday)
HW #7 Section 9.1 #28, 38
Section 9.2 #18, 44
Section 9.3 #10
Ch9, Review Exercises #10, 15
8/1 (Thursday)
HW #8 Section 10.1 #20
Section 10.2 #23, 32
Section 10.3 #8, 14
8/6 (Tuesday)
No more homework!