CSC 323 - Winter'98

Announcements:

• Next quiz: Thursday 3/12. This quiz is optional. See Quiz 6 below for practice problems.
• Final: Wednesday, 3/18/98 @ 11:45 to 2:00 - tips
• Quiz #5 solutions

• Plagiarism Policy
• Incomplete Policy

• Syllabus
• Math/Statistics Tips:
  • Regression/Least Squares - Minimizing Residuals
  • The effect of outliers on the regression equation
  • Sampling Distributions:
    • Confidence Interval for the Mean
• SAS Tips:
  • SAS for Windows
  • SAS for Unix
  • Normal Probability Plot
• Data & SAS Code
• Quiz #1:
  Review FPPA, section 5.2 (pp 82 - 84). Solutions are provided for the review problems below. If you do not have the text, the explanation provided with the solutions should be sufficient.
  
  • Review Problems - FPPA pp84; #1
  • Review Problems - Transformation problems (harder)
• Quiz #2: (Rescheduled from Tuesday 1/20 to Thursday, 1/22)
  Review FPPA, Chapter 12; section 1 (pp 202 - 206). Chapter 7 may be good background reading. Solutions are provided for the review problems below. Again, if you do not have the text, the explanation provided with the solutions should be sufficient.
  • Review Problems
• Quiz #3:
  • SAS Review
• MIDTERM:
  Review material for Quiz #1 and Quiz #2 plus FPPA; section 5.5, section 11.2 & 11.5.
  • Review Problems
  • More Review Problems - worked in class
  For extra practice with percentile problems, try the problems from pp92 (i.e. #1-#3 and pp95 (i.e. #7) below. For extra practice with regression try problem pp197, #1b.
• Quiz #4 - Tips
• Quiz #5:
  There are no required readings. Review the notes and the problems below. You may read SAS chapter 6 (skipping the SAS code) to get additional background.
  • Problem set #1 (mean) Note: The same problems as set #1 below.
  • Problem set #2 (mean) Note: The same as set #2.
  • Review Problems (proportions)
  • More Review Problems (proportions)
• Quiz #6 - Review Problems
• Programming/Analysis Projects
• Homework Assignments:
  
  • Transformation and Percentile practice problems (Normal Distribution):
    • FPPA: pp88; #1 & #2
    • FPPA: pp92; #1, #2 & #3
    • FPPA: pp95; #7
  • Correlation and Regression problems:
    • FPPA: pp207; #1
    • FPPA: pp207; #2a), 2b), 2c)
    • FPPA: pp176; #2
  • Sampling Distribution of the Mean and Confidence Interval problems:
    • Problem set #1
    • Problem set #2