The discussion guide and
recitation problems for Th. Oct. 22 is now on the discussion guide webpage.)
Most of Solutions to Assignment 7, 8 and 9 are now
available on the Homework and
Solutions webpage.
Assignment 10 due Mon. Nov. 9 is now available on the Homework and Solutions webpage. (There are no changes from the
tentative plan handed out at the first class.)
Office hours for everyone are
at the bottom of this page.
The lab for Thursday Nov. 5
(to be handed in Th. Nov. 5)
is now on the labs webpage.
Learning Skill Center Statistics Tutoring
Information (for Spring 2009) is on the links webpage. This semester tutoring starts Monday September 7 and continues
SunMonWedTh 6-9pm in 417CCC.
"Describing a Distribution on your Labs:" Pages 49-56 of
Chapter 4 give a quick introduction to shape, center, and spread.
Together with unusual features, this is what you should report when
asked to describe a distribution or histogram. We'll study this in
greater detail later.
On the posted version of Friday Sep. 18:
Overlay 57:
A typo of right vs. left was corrected. (Thanks for catching it!)
Overlays 68-84:
These prove normal approximation in the case p=.5. Don't feel an
obligation to look closely at these pages. They are
provided mostly for anyone who
is wondering how such a thing could be established.
A nice introduction to using the free Statistics Program R is
Introductory Statistics with R
by Peter Dalgaard.
On campus, just clicking the above link will get you to
the book. Off campus, the following webpages from the Cornell library
explain how Cornell Community members can access the book as well: