Research Paper On Data Analysis

Submitted By luwenhao7266
Words: 1272
Pages: 6
Open Document
AMS 315
Data Analysis
Spring Semester, 2012

Class: Tuesday, Thursday, 6:50-8:10, Engineering 143
Instructor: Stephen Finch

Office Hours: Tuesday: 2:30-3:30, Thursday: 2:30-3:30, and by appointment. There will be extra office hours the week before each examination. These will be announced on the class blackboard. My office is in the Mathematics Tower, Room 1-113. Phone: 632-8369. My e-mail is Stephen.Finch@stonybrook.edu.

Text: Ott, R.L., Longnecker, M. (2009). Statistical Methods and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury. There is a sixth edition that I will assign problems from. Assignments will be posted on the class Blackboard. Your homework papers will be commented upon but not scored. You will not suffer much of a loss if you get an older edition or even a different text.

Examination Requirements

There will be two in-class examinations (one on Thursday, March 1 and the second on Thursday, April 19) and a final examination on Tuesday, May 8, from 5:15 pm until 7:45 p.m. Each examination is comprehensive. Example problems for examinations will be part of your chapter study guides posted on the class blackboard. You may use an approved calculator in the examination provided that you permit the proctor to inspect it during the examination. You may have one standard paper size (8.5 by 11 inches) page of notes. You may write on the front and back, and the sheet must have your name on it. The statistical tables and graphs that are needed to solve problems will be provided. You may not write on the tables and graphs and must return them at the end of the examination. You may not use any other assistance during the examination. The examination component of your grade, E, will be calculated by the rule E1 +E2 +EF. Each in-class examination will be have about 6 questions each worth 40 points so that the examination is worth approximately 240 points. The final examination will have about 12 problems and be worth approximately 500 points. Typically, a score of about half of the available points is a C performance. A performance with about two-thirds of the available points is a B range performance. A performance with 88% of available points is typically an A range performance.

The dates of the examinations are:

1. Thursday, March 1, with target coverage from Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
2. Thursday, April 19, will be comprehensive and cover Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12.
3. Final: Tuesday, May 8, 5:15 pm-7:45 pm. It will be comprehensive and cover Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Lecture Schedule

This schedule is a rough guide to the pace of the lectures. In general, I will go through the text sequentially. Your standing assignment is to read the material before lecture and identify difficulties that you want to have discussed further in lecture and office hours. You also have a standing assignment to read a newspaper or internet news source to identify stories that involve the use of statistics. If any class is cancelled due to weather conditions, I will cover the material in the next meeting. Examinations are fixed on the dates above. You will be responsible for all material covered in class up to the examination date.

Tentative Lecture Schedule

Jan 24: Chapter Three, Data Description
Jan 26: Chapter Four, Probability and Probability Distributions (simulation issues)
Jan 31: Chapter Five, Inferences about Population Central Values
Feb 2: Chapter Five, Inferences about Population Central Values
Feb 7: Chapter Six, Inferences Comparing Two Population Central Values
Feb 9: Chapter Six, Inferences Comparing Two Population Central Values
Feb 14: Chapter Seven, Inferences about Population Variances
Feb 16: Chapter Seven, Inferences about Population Variances
Feb 21: Chapter Eight, Inferences about More than Two Population Central Values
Feb 23: Chapter Eight, Inferences about More than Two Population Central
Show More

Related Documents: Research Paper On Data Analysis

Reaction Time Folio Essay

of faster than 100 ms is a fair benchmark using some Mathematical techniques including; Normal distribution, Central Limit Theorem and 95% Confidence Interval formula for the measurements and calculations in order to check whether Jon Drummond’s claim was justified. Method Tit is claimed that the true Mean of the population µ = 215 ms (3sf) and the standard deviation of the population. σ = 34ms (task sheet) The probability (Pr X≤100) and (Pr X≤53) by putting them into a normal distribution formula…

Words 3038 - Pages 13

Research Methods Descriptives Essay

 Measures of central tendency, variability and normality  Normal distribution  Relevant SPSS commands:  Descriptives, Compare means, Histograms, Explore  Next lab session lbic.navitas.com navitas.com Objectives for today  Understand the importance of exploring the characteristics of your data before conducting the final analyses  Appreciate why categorical and continuous data require different kinds of descriptive analysis  Identify and define key measures of:  Central tendency, Variability…

Words 1343 - Pages 6

Descriptive Statistics

 Measures of Central Tendency- calculate and interpret  Measures of Dispersion- calculate and interpret  Correlation and Covariance- calculate and interpret  Standardized Data  Outliers  Chebyshev’s Theorem  Empirical Rule  Box Plots Chapter 4 Descriptive Statistics Page 1 Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Shape  Where are values concentrated?  How much do values vary?  Is the distribution symmetric? Skewed? Is it a population or a sample? For populations:     Model…

Words 2073 - Pages 9

Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts Part 2 Essay

these samples to make generalizations about the populations from which the samples were drawn. It is, therefore, important that the sample accurately represents the population. The process of achieving this is called sampling (sampling strategies are discussed in detail here on our sister site). Inferential statistics arise out of the fact that sampling naturally incurs sampling error and thus a sample is not expected to perfectly represent the population. The methods of inferential statistics are (1)…

Words 1643 - Pages 7

The Statistical Environment Essay

Week 5 some notes on measures of central tendency Mean, Median and Mode | We use statistics such as the mean, median and mode to obtain information about a population from our sample set of observed values. MeanThe mean (or average) of a set of data values is the sum of all of the data values divided by the number of data values. That is: Example 1The marks of seven students in a mathematics test with a maximum possible mark of 20 are given below: 15 13 18 16 14…

Words 3322 - Pages 14

Essay about Iceland Report

monetary unit is the króna (plural krónur) – ISK Population: 319,014 (2011) President: Olafur Ragnar Grimsson Prime minister: Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson Government: Constitutional republic, Parliamentary republic GDP: $13 billion Unemployment rate: 7% International dialing code: +354 Time: UTC+0 Transport: no trains in Iceland, but there is an extensive bus network The Cultural Environment Culture refers to learned norms based on the values, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people. Iceland’s…

Words 3245 - Pages 13

Glossary For Exam 2

verify; a statement about the value of a parameter that is either “less than,” “greater than,” or “not equal to.” ANOVA (Analysis of Variance): a statistical procedure for testing the equality of multiple means using variances. Central Limit Theorem: The name of the statement telling us that when sampling from a non-Normal population, the sampling distribution of ¯ is approximately Normal whenever the sample is large and x random. Claimed parameter value: The value of the parameter given in the…

Words 843 - Pages 4

Parametric Test Assignment

groups are called as non-parametric tests. Let us discuss them in detail. Parametric tests Parametric tests are used when the population is normally distributed, i.e. a bell-shaped curve which is symmetrical about the mean and is spread according to the value of standard deviation. Parametric tests are useful when the scales of…

Words 1074 - Pages 5

Summary 7 Essay

Summary 7 To know population mean reflect on the sample mean, we need to know the sample distribution of the sample mean. Sampling distribution：all possible values that can be assumed by that statistic, computed from samples of the same size drawn from the same population In any particular sample the sample mean (or sample variance) will (almost certainly) not equal to population meanμ (or variance 2) Sampling error: The difference between a sample statistic & the population parameter This error…

Words 413 - Pages 2

Sea Otter Community: A Narrative Analysis

trade. Since the ecosystem changed, the dependency of the ecosystem changed as well. As was mentioned in the film by Tom Happynook, the Huu-ay-aht hereditary whailing chief of the nuu-chah-nulth nation, communities used to control the sea otter population with a variety of different methods such as hoisting a deceased sea otter along the coast as to restrict other sea otters from inhabiting the area. Since generations have passed since this ecological shift, the community is currently having difficulty…

Words 433 - Pages 2