Statistics 401       Section B       Spring 2008


TENTATIVE OUTLINE WITH RECOMMENDED READINGS FROM THE TEXT

1.  Introduction to Statistics: Basic Concepts; Graphical and Numerical Summaries of Data; Measures of Location and Variation.
     Study  the course notes labelled Set #1.
     Ott, Longnecker:  Chapter 1: Sections 1.1-1.4,  Chapter 2: 2.2-2.3 (lightly),  Chapter 3: 3.3-3.6 (selectively)

2. Introduction to Sampling and Probability: Discrete and Continuous Random Variables and their
     Probability Distributions; Binomial and Normal Distributions; Sampling Distribution of sample mean.
     Study  the course notes labelled Set#2
     Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 4. Sections 4.11, 4.6-4.10, 4.12, 4.13 (Skip 4.1-4.5, 4.14)

3.  Inference about Population Mean; Student's t distribution
     Study  the course notes labelled Set#3. 
     Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 5.  Section 5.1 (lightly), Sections 5.2-5.7 (selectively)

4.  Inference about Comparing of Two Population Means.
     Study  the course notes labelled Set#4.
     Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 6.  Section 6.1 (lightly), Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6

5.  Inference and Population Variances.
     Study  the course notes labelled Set#5.
     Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 7.  Section 7.1 (lightly), Sections 7.2-7.4

6.  Introduction to Simple Linear Regression; Correlation
      Study  the course notes labelled Set#6.
      Ott, Longnecker: Chapter 11.   Section 11.1 (lightly), Sections 11.2-11.5, 11.7
       Review of Plots and Diagnostic Statistics for Simple Linear Regression (notes)
       (will  see later in Section 13.4 of Ott, Longnecker: Chapter 13)

7.  Multiple Regression and the General Linear Model.
       Study  the course notes labelled Set#7.
       Ott, Longnecker: Chapter 12. Sections 12.1-12.7 (selectively)

8.  Model Selection and Residual Analysis in Multiple Regression.
       Study  the course notes labelled Set#8.
       Ott, Longnecker: Chapter 13. Sections 13.1-13.4

9.  Inferences on More than Two Populations: Analysis of Variance.
       Study  the course notes labelled Set#9.
      Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 8.  Section 8.1 (lightly), Sections 8.2-8.6 (selectively)

10. Multiple Comparisons.
      Study  the course notes labelled  Set#10.
      Ott:, Longnecker:  Chapter 9.  Sections 9.1-9.5, Section 9.8

11. Analysis of Variance of Standard Designs
       Study  the course notes labelled Set#11
       Ott, Longnecker: Chapter 15. Sections 15.2, 15.3, 15.5, 15.7