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Elementary Statistics 1AS/1ES (Spring, 2012/13)
This is a stand-alone 10cp unit on statistics. The same material is available as part of the 40cp units Mathematics 1AS and Mathematics 1ES and of the 20 cp unit Mathematics 1FS.
Announcement
- Lecture starts on Wednesday (6 March) at 10AM in CHEM LT4.
- Three lectures per week: Mondays 11AM in PHYS G44, Tuesdays 10AM in PHYS G44 and Wednesdays 10AM in CHEM LT4.
- Pratical Sessions: Tuesday 5PM in the computer lab (ground floor, Maths). The practical session starts on Tuesday, 12 March!
- Office hour: Thursdays 2-3PM, in Maths computer lab
- A detailed unit description
Syllabus
Lecture Notes
- Lecture One, Introduction, 06/03/13
- Lecture Two, Graphical Descriptive Techniques, 11/03/13
- Lecture Three, Numerical Descriptive Techniques for Interval Data, 12/03/13
- Lecture Four, Probability, 13, 18/03/13
- Lecture Five, Random Variable and Discrete Probability Distributions, 19, 20/03/13
- Lecture Six, Continuous Probability Distributions, Statistical table for standard normal distribution, 20/03/13
Handouts for Practical Lessons
- Lab One, Introduction to R
- Lab Two, Graphical techniques and numerical summaries
- Lab Three, Computer experiment and discrete probability distributions
Data Sets for Lectures, Practical Sessions and Assignments
- Data set used for this unit: Stats.RData
- Pepsi example: number of soft drinks that each of 500 students purchased in a week
- Bills for 50 supermarket shoppers
- Data collected at the end of the first lecture, combined with data from last year: student2013, includes number of siblings, minutes walking to campus from accommodation, height and gender. R program for plot
- In a taste test, 250 people were asked to taste five different brands of beer and to report which one they preferred. Here is the result.
- Education-income data set for scatter diagram.
Assignments
- Assignment One, due on 21/03/13, by 5pm.
- Assignment Two, due on 25/04/13, by 5pm.
Internet Resources
- Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic. Here is the link to statistics questions at college level.
- DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods.
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