MCS 140 Examination 1
- What: Examination on chapters 1-6 and topics covered in class
- When: 8:00-8:50 on Tuesday, September 30
- Where: Olin 320
Exam 1 will be a closed-book examination, but you will be allowed to use
one 3"-by-5" note card and your calculator.
The exam will consist mainly of problems rather than questions that test
your memory of the content of the text.
The exam will cover:
- Picturing distributions with graphs
- Describing distributions with numbers
- The Normal distributions
- Scatterplots and correlation
- Regression
- Two-way tables
Detailed review notes: Exploring Data: Part I Review,
pp. 151-155.
Suggested study and preparation:
- Make use of the text's Part I Review, pp. 151-155.
- Review the summaries at end of each section of the text.
Do some of the odd-numbered Review Exercises, pp. 155-165.
Make sure that you know and understand the terminology of statistics
(distribution, bar graph, histogram, mean, standard deviation,
five-number summary, correlation, density curve,
normal distribution, regression, etc.).
- Be prepared to demonstrate statistical thinking in context.
- Computation will not be a big part of the test, but
you should be able to compute and interpret five-number summaries, means,
standard deviations, and z-scores.
You should be able to interpret a least-squares regression equation
in context.
You should be able to calculate marginal and conditional distributions
from given two-way tables.
- You should be able to use Table A (standard normal probabilities).
- Be prepared to draw graphical displays: stemplots, histograms,
boxplots, timeplots, and scatterplots.