Introductory Statistics,
Semester 2, 2007
Lectures
Day Time Location
Monday 10am – 11am C104
Monday 4pm – 5pm C104
Thursday 1pm – 2pm QG22
Past Exam Papers
2006
Tutorials: Weeks 3 – 12
Group 1: Wednesday 11am – 12pm Room: X131
Group 2: Wednesday 12pm – 1pm Room CG11.
SPSS Lab: Wednesday 14th February : SPSS Notes and SPSSRawData.sav
Tutorial 1: Wednesday
21st February: Questions
Tutorial 2: Wednesday 28th February: Questions
Tutorial 3: Wednesday 21st March: Questions
Tutorial 4: Wednesday 28th March: Questions
Tutorial 5: Wednesday 4th April: Questions
Tutorial 6: Questions and solutions (solutions to questions 5 to 9)
Tutorial 7: Questions
and solutions
Assessment and Breakdown of
Marks
· 10% in class assessment 1 (Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 1pm in QG22)
· 10% in class assessment 2 (Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 1pm in T101)
· 80% end of semester examination
Lecture Notes
Section
1 Descriptive Statistics (handouts given in class)
Examples and illustrations
§
Box-plot examples
§
Descriptive statistics
and graphical illustrations at http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jhorgan/stats/statistics1/members.htm
§
Descriptive
exercises and solutions
§ Match the histogram with the appropriate box-plot in the following box-plot exercises and solutions
Section 2 Probability
(a)
Basic Concepts
(handouts given in class) Axioms of
Probability
(b)
Random
Variables
(c)
Expectations
and Bivariate
Expectations
(d)
Discrete
Distributions; Poisson
distribution; Mean and variance of
Binomial distribution
(e)
Continuous
Distributions
Exercises: Event exercises
Probability exercises and solutions
Conditional/Bayes exercises and solutions
Discrete distribution questions and solutions
Worked example on discrete distributions
Normal distribution questions
Section 3 Inferential Statistics (notes will be
given in class)
(a)
Sampling
Methods and Sampling Distributions
(b)
Confidence Intervals
and Sample Size
(c)
Hypothesis testing
(d)
Chi Square Distribution
(e)
Correlation and
Regression