Course: Mathematics 203 B, Introduction to Statistics, Spring 2000, Central College.
Professor: Tom Linton, 312 B Central Hall, (515) 628-5264, email: lintont@central.edu.
Class Meets: MWRF 2:00 to 2:50 PM in Central Hall 317.
Office Hours: 11 AM Monday, 9 AM Tuesday, 3 PM Wednesday, 1 PM Thursday and Friday, or by appointment.
Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics 2nd Edition, by Moore.
Course Syllabus and a schedule with assignments.
Final Exam: Wednesday May 17, 1 PM, 317 Central Hall. Final exam review problems. and answers to even numbered problems.

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.

Residuals for those with TI-85 calculators, or TI-82 calculators.

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

Class Materials

Quizzes, Exams

quiz 1, quiz 2,  quiz 3, quiz4, quiz5,
exam 1 practice problems,
Exam 2 practice problems and the answers.
Exam 3 practice problems and the answers.
Final exam review problems, and answers to even numbered problems.

Activities and Handouts

Class information data collection sheet.
Normal proportions question.
Linear regression activity.
Using the TI-83 to select SRS's from a population activity.
Sampling activity with M&M proportions and predictions.
Confidence intervals activity.
Significance-Hypothesis tests with the TI-83 calculator.
Two-sample versus one-sample activity.