Textbook: Jay L. Devore
Probability and Statistics, 7th ed.
Thomson Higher Education (ISBN-10 0-495-38217-5)
Date Chapter.Section/Topics
M May 12 1.1-4 Populations, Samples; Mean, Median, Quantiles, Variance
W 14 2.1-2 Sample Space, Events, Sets; Probability Axioms
F 16 2.3 Combinatorics, Tree Diagrams
M 19 2.4 Conditional Probability; Bayes's Theorem
W 21 2.5 Independent Events
F 23 review for exam 1
M 26 *** holiday (Memorial Day) no class ***
W 28 *** first examination ***
F 30 3.1-2 Random Variables: Discrete and Continuous; CDF, Probability Mass Function
M June 2 3.3 Expected Value and Variance
W 4 3.4 Binomial Distribution; Bernoulli Trials
F 6 Class cancelled due to illness
M 9 3.5 Geometric, Negative Binomial and Hypergeometric Distributions
W 11 3.6 Poisson Distribution
F 13 4.1-4.2 Continuous RVs; PDF, CDF, Expected Values; Uniform & Exponential Distribs
M 16 4.2 Quantiles; 4.3 Normal Distribution; Tables of Z values
W 18 4.4 Exponential, Gamma and Chi-Squared Distributions
F 20 5.1 Joint Probability Mass Function; Marginals (Final drop date)
M 23 5.2 Covariance; Correlation
W 25 5.3 Statistics and Estimators
F 27 Review for Exam 2
M 30 *** second examination (open book) ***
W July 2 5.4 Distribution of the Sample Mean; Central Limit Theorem
F 4 *** holiday (Independence Day) no class ***
M 7 6.1-2 Point Estimates; Unbiased Estimators; Maximum Likelihood
W 9 7.1 Confidence Intervals for Means
F 11 7.2 Confidence Intervals for Proportions
M 14 7.3-7.4 Student t distribution; Sample Variance
W 16 8.1 Type I and II Errors; Null Hypothesis
F 18 8.2 Tests about Population Mean
M 21 8.3-4 Tests about Proportions; p-Values
W 23 12.1-2 Linear Regression Model; Normal Equations
F 25 Review (Last day of classes)
Final exam: Thursday, 2008 July 31 at 8:00-10:50 a.m. in Skiles 268.
Be aware that the tentative final exam information available on the Registrar web site is subject to change.
homepage for Belinfante's Math 3770.
Revised: 2008 June 27