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Syllabus for Mathematics 7, Spring 2008

Week 1
Lecture 1. Working with summations. The sample mean
Lecture 2. The sample mean and the sample Median
Lecture 3. The algebra of events.
Week 2
Lecture 4. Permutations and combinations. Probability
Lecture 5. More on computing probability
Lecture 6. Random variables and their distributions
Week 3
Lecture 7. Expectations of random variables
Lecture 8. Variance and standard deviation
Lecture 9. Limit theorems
Week 4
Lecture 10. Binomial test for small samples
Lecture 11. Binomial test for large samples
Lecture 12. The sign test
Week 5
Lecture 13. Comparison of two populations for rare events.
Lecture 14. Test for median value
Lecture 15. The two sample permutation test
Week 6
Lecture 16. The Irwin-Fisher exact test.
Lecture 17. Test for independence in a 2x2 contingency table
Lecture 18. The Wilcoxon test and test for change of rate.
Week 7
Lecture 19. Confidence interval for p in large samples
Lecture 20. Confidence interval for p in small samples
Lecture 21. Confidence interval for a median
Week 8
Lecture 22. Test for equality of several populations (ANOVA).
Lecture 23. Test for equality of p's in several binomials
Lectuer 24. Computing sample size for a binomial test
Week 9
Lecture 25. The least squares regression line.
Lecture 26. Test for zero slope for bivariate data
lecture 27. Test for equality of two regresion lines.
Week 10
Lecture 28. Examination #1 occuring at end of week 3.
Lecture 29. Examination #2 occuring in middle of week 6.
Lecture 30. Examination #3 occuring at beginning of week 9.

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