OPTIONAL PROBLEMS FROM SPATZ (2005)
Spatz (8th ed., 2005) is only a recommended text, and, as mentioned earlier in the syllabus, a 9th edition is due out in May 2007 – so you may not want to buy the 8th if you are aiming to sell it back to whatever institution sells it to you. Generally, keep in mind that my definitions, conventions, and formulae often differ from Spatz’s. At the same time, however, students in previous classes have found the following problems from Spatz useful. These problems are arranged by the order of topics in the syllabus, but please double-check them in case I have made any errors.
Date |
Chapter(s) |
Topic(s) |
Problems |
5/31 |
Chapter 1 |
introduction |
1-10, especially #2 |
|
Chapter 2 |
frequency distributions |
1, 2, 9 |
6/5 |
Chapter 3 |
measures of central tendency |
1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10 |
6/6 |
Chapter 3 |
measures of variability |
11, 15-18, 21, 24 |
6/12 |
Chapter 2 |
Cartesian planes, graphing, |
5 a and b, 6, 7, 14, 16 |
|
Chapter 4 |
skewness, box-plots, and measures of central tendency |
7 |
6/14 |
Chapter 4 |
z-scores |
1-3, 6 |
|
Chapter 7 |
sampling: representativeness and bias |
4-7 |
6/19 |
Chapter 6 |
probability, the normal distribution |
1-5, 7-28 |
6/20 |
Chapter 7 |
sampling distributions, the Central Limit Theorem |
8, 10 |
6/21 |
Chapter 7 |
confidence intervals on µ when |
12-14, 17 |
6/26 |
Chapter 7 |
confidence intervals on µ when |
25, 28, 30, 31 |
6/27 |
Chapter 8 |
hypothesis testing |
3, 6, 8, 9 |
|
Chapter 9 |
statistical significance and power |
18, 19 |
6/28 |
Chapter 13 |
|
1, 4, 16, 17, 20 |
7/5 |
Chapter 15 |
summary |
4, 5, 9, 22, 29 |
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