MCS 140 Tentative Schedule, Fall Semester 2003
 
Week Dates Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday
1 Sept. 4-5 Introduction
 
1: Graphs
 
2 Sept. 8-13 1
 
2: Numbers
 
2
 
3: Normal
distributions
3 Sept. 15-19 3
 
3
 
4: Scatterplots
4: Correlation
4 Sept. 22-26 5: Regression
 
5
 
6: Two-way
tables
6
 
5 9/29-10/3 Review
 
Exam 1
 

 
7: Sampling
 
6 Oct. 6-10 7
 
Nobel
Conference
8: Experiments
 
8
 
7 Oct. 13-16 9: Probability
 
9
 
9
  Project #1 due
Reading
Break
8 Oct. 21-24 Reading
Break
10: Sampling
distributions
10
 
10   Project 2 Teams & ideas
9 Oct. 27-31 13: Confidence
intervals
13
 
14: Tests of
significance
14
 
10 Nov. 3-7 14
Preliminary proposal
15: Inference
in practice
Review
 
Exam 2
 
11 Nov. 10-14
Final proposal
16: Inference
about a mean
16
 
17: 2-sample
problems
12 Nov. 17-21 17
 
17
 
18: Inference:
one proportion
18
 
13 Nov. 24-25 19: Comparing
2 proportions
19
Data report
Thanksgiving Break
14 Dec. 1-5 20: Chi-square
test
20 20
 
Preliminary report
21: Inference
for regression
15 Dec. 8-12 21
 
Wrap-up
 
Review
Final report

 
16 Dec. 15-18 Final Exam
8:00-10:00