Math 205
Tuesday and Friday in Birch 161 at 8:30am
Text
- Probability and Statistics by Jay L. Devore,
8th ed., Brooks/Cole, 2012.
- Lecture Notes by Lily Yen.
How to prepare for each lecture
- Check the lecture plan and study the sections planned.
- Fill in all definitions and properties left blank in the notes based on
corresponding sections in the text.
- Bring your graphing calculator.
Help
- My office hours.
- Math Learning Centre in Birch 289.
- Fourth hour activities. For your own sake, resist looking at my answers until you have worked out your own solutions.
- Manipulating
means and standard deviations (with answers).
- Reliability
(with answers).
- Binomial distribution
(with answers).
- Normal distribution
(with answers)
- Continuous distributions
(with answers).
- Standard Normal
(with answers).
- Past tests. Again, I recommend not looking at the answers until you have solved the entire exam by yourself.
- Midterm 1
-
Spring 2016
(with answers (4c corrected)).
Spring 2015
(with answers).
- Midterm 2
-
Spring 2016
(with answers).
Spring 2015
(with answers).
- Final
-
Spring 2015
(with answers).
- Filled in Lecture Notes:
Pages 45–90
- A quick guide on
Using a TI-83/84 for Statistical Data.
- A quick guide on
Using a TI-83/84 for Probability Distributions.
- Probability review by Reimar Hauschildt.
Capilano University,
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
and I
have done everything possible to help you pass the course.
Please do not fail us.
Grade distribution
- Tests: 50%.
- Homework: 5%.
- Final exam: 35%.
- 10% personal evaluation.
Your grade
The out of
numbers for the midterms above may change as I design the tests.
Lecture Plan
January | 5 | Chapter 1
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| 8 | Class cancelled due to AMS winter meeting
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| 12 | 2.1, 2.2
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| 15 | 2.2, 2.3
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| 19 | 2.3, 2.4
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| 22 | 2.4, 2.5
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| 26 | 3.1, 3.2
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| 29 | 3.2, 3.3
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February | 2 | 3.4, 3.5
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| 5 | 3.5, 3.6
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| 9 | Reading Break
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| 12 | Reading Break
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| 16 | Midterm I for Chapters 1, 2, 3
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| 19 | 4.1, 4.2
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| 23 | 4.2, 4.3
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| 26 | 4.3, 4.4
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March | 1 | 5.2, 5.4
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| 4 | 5.4, 5.5
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| 8 | 6.1, 7.1
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| 11 | 7.2, 7.3
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| 15 | 7.3, 8.1
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| 18 | 8.1, 8.2
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| 22 | 8.2, 9.1
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| 25 | Good Friday
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| 29 | Midterm II Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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April | 1 | 9.1, 9.2
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| 5 | 10.1, 12.1
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| 5 | 11:30am 12.2, 12.3
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| 8 | Review for the final
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