Math 20340 - Statistics for Life Sciences

Fall 2009

General course arrangements: here

Final exam: here. Here's a list of topics we covered during the semester.

Concourse was used for distributing all other information for this course. Below is an archive of the course material.

Course archive (bare bones)

Group project: Here is detailed information about the group project, and here is the grading rubrik for it.

Midterm exams:

• Midterm 1 practice (with solutions)
• Midterm 1, with solutions
• Midterm 2 practice (last year's second midterm, with solutions)
• Midterm 2 (with solutions)
• Midterm 3 practice (with solutions)
• Midterm 3 (with solutions)

Homework instructions: Homework assignments will be announced on this page most Fridays and will be due at the beginning of class the following Friday. Each assignment will involve some reading and some problems.

Presented assignments should be neat and legible, and contain a cover page with your name, the course number, the assignment number and the due date. The pages of the assignment must be stapled together. The grader reserves the right to leave ungraded any assignment that is disorganized, untidy or incoherent. No late assignments will be accepted.

It is permissible (and encouraged) to discuss the assignments with your colleagues; but the writing of each assignment must be done on your own. Unless a problem requires minimal work, you should show your work for each problem.

Homework assignments: (solutions are all together below the list of assignments)

• Week 12: (due *Wednesday*, December 2) Read Sections 10.6 and 10.7 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 10.6: 49, 50, 51, 55, 56
  • Section 10.7: 58, 59, 61, 65
• Week 11: Because of the midterm, *this homework does not have to be turned in*. The following exercises are from Section 10.5, the one section that will be on the exam that we have not yet had homework on. I recommend that you do these problems to prepare for the exam; solutions will be posted by Friday afternoon.
  • Section 10.5: 35, 40, 41
• Week 10: (due *Monday*, November 16) Read Sections 9.6 and 9.7 and 10.1 through 10.4 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 9.6: 42, 43, 46, 48
  • Section 10.3: 2, 4 (see page 20 for stem-and-leaf plots), 5, 8, 10, 13
  • Section 10.4: 18(a), 19(a), 21, 28, 29
• Week 9: (due *Monday*, November 9) Read Sections 9.1 through 9.5 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 9.3: 3, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17
  • Section 9.4: 18, 20, 23, 27
  • Section 9.5: 30, 34, 40
• Week 8: Because of the midterm, *this homework does not have to be turned in*. The following exercises are from Sections 8.6, 8.7 and 8.9, three sections that will be on the exam that we have not yet had homework on. I recommend that you do these problems to prepare for the exam; solutions will be posted by Wednesday afternoon.
  • Section 8.6: 40, 42, 48
  • Section 8.7: 50, 54, 59, 62
  • Section 8.9: 65, 66, 68, 70, 75, 80
• Week 7: (due Friday, October 16) Read Sections 8.1 through 8.5 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 8.4: 1, 3, 4 (for each of these, ``margin of error'' means ``95% margin of error''), 5, 6, 9, 14, 17, 19
  • Section 8.5: 24, 25, 27, 28. 32, 36
• Week 6: (due Friday, October 9) Read Sections 7.3 through 7.6 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 7.5: 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33
  • Section 7.6: 37, 38, 41, 45, 47
• Week 5: (due Friday, October 2) Read Chapter 6 and sections 7.1 and 7.2 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 6.3: 3, 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31
  • Section 6.4: 37, 47
  • Section 7.2: 5, 7
• Week 4: Because of the midterm, *this homework does not have to be turned in*. The following exercises are from Section 5.3, the one section that will be on the exam that we have not yet had homework on. I recommend that you do these problems to prepare for the exam; solutions will be posted by Tuesday afternoon.
  • Section 5.3: 40, 42, 43, 47, 48
• Week 3: (due Friday, Sept 18) Read Sections 4.8 and 5.1-5.2 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 4.8: 84, 86, 92, 93, 95, 97
  • Section 5.2: 3, 4, 7, 15, 17 (a, b, c), 20 (optional), 21 (optional), 22, 25, 31, 32 (for c, just compute P(6 <= x <= 14))
• Week 2: (due Friday, Sept 11) Read Sections 4.5-4.7 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 4.4: 37, 38
  • Section 4.6: 42 (c, g, h), 43 (b), 44 (a), 45 (c), 46, 50, 52, 56, 60, 62, 65 (d, e, f), 67
  • Section 4.7: 75, 78
• Week 1: (due Friday, Sept 4) Read Sections 4.1-4.4 and do the following exercises.
  • Section 4.3: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16
  • Section 4.4: 19, 20, 26, 33, 34

Homework solutions: (mostly from the solution manual)

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10
• Week 11
• Week 12