Course: Mathematics 203 A, Introduction to Statistics, Fall 2000, Central College.
Professor: Tom Linton, 312 B Central Hall, (641) 628-5264, email: lintont@central.edu.
Class Meets: MTWF 11:00 to 11:50 AM in Central Hall 317.
Office Hours: 10 AM Monday and Friday, 1 PM Tuesday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics 2nd Edition, by Moore.
Final Exam: Thursday December 21, 8 AM, 317 Central Hall.

Course Syllabus and a schedule with assignments.

TI-83 Materials

The TI-83 calculator is required for this course. It performs many useful statistical calculations with the press of a button. No prior knowledge of the TI-83 is assumed but the TI-83 will be utilized extensively in this course. The links below point to files designed to help explain some features of this pocket computer. The first two links are introductory in nature and designed to help familiarize new users with some basic features of the TI-83. The remaining links will only make sense as we progress through the semester.

Introduction: A general introduction to the TI-83 calculator.

Graphing: Several basic operations related to graphing functions are covered in this document.

Normal Calculations: Probabilities associated with normal distributions are covered.

Linear Regression: Correlation, scatterplots and least squares linear regression are looked at briefly on the TI-83.

Confidence intervals and significance or hypothesis tests with the TI-83.

Class Materials

quizzes and exams

quiz 1, exam 1 practice sheet, quiz 2, exam 2 practice sheet, quiz 3, exam 3 practice sheet.

activities and handouts

Day 1 data gathering activity, quantitative and categorical variables.

Mean and median activity.

Correlation activity.

Causation activity (TVs and life expectancy).

SRS's with the TI-83 activity.

M&M activity on sampling distributions and the class data.

Counting successes activity, simulating a binomial random variable.

Confidence interval activity.

Two sample versus one sample T-test activity.