EC303 Schedule & Solutions

COL Karen Gutermuth
Professor of Economics and Business

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Date	Topic	Assigned Problems Problems in Red are to be turned in!
20 May	Chapter 1: Introduction Homework Preparation	HW1: Ch. 1: 2, 13, 14 [19]
20 May	Chapter 3: Measures of Central Location, Measures of Dispersion Test Scores Hand-out	HW2: Ch. 3: 2, 11 [10a] Ch. 3: 16, 18, 23 [21] Solutions to Hand-out
21 May	Chapter 3: Variance, continued, Chebychev's Rule, Skewness	HW3: Ch. 3: 27,32 (a & b) Handout
21 May	Chapter 3: Covariance and Correlation	HW4: Ch. 3: 44 (c and d), 45 (c and d)
22 May	Chapter 4: Experiments, Outcomes, Events	HW5: Hand-Out [3]
22 May	Chapter 4: Counting Rules, Assigning Probabilities Relative Frequency Problems	HW6: Ch. 4: 1, 2, 3 Handout (P's and C's and F's)
23 May	Chapter 4: Additive Law of Probability, Bivariate & Conditional Prob. Practice Problems Handout Hand-out Solutions	HW7: Ch. 4: 7, 12 20, 29 [25, 28]
23 May	Chapter 4: Statistical Independence and Bayes' Theorem Practice for Test #1	HW8: Ch. 4: 34 [33, 35] On Own: Ch. 4: 31, 43, 44
27 May	TEST #1 Formulas for Test 1	Solutions for Test Practice 1
28 May	Chapter 5: Discrete RV Prob. Distribution Functions, Expected Value, Variance	HW9: Ch. 5: 6, 7, 11, 19, 22 [13, 17]
28 May	Chapter 5: Binomial Distribution	HW10: Ch. 5: 31, 33, 34 [27, 37]
29 May	Chapter 5: Poisson Distribution Practice Problems Solutions	HW11: Ch. 5: 42, 45 [40] Handout (Handout is to turn in)
29 May	Chapter 6: Uniform Distribution	HW12: Ch. 6: 2, 5, 6 [3, 7]
30 May	Chapter 6: Standard Normal and Looking Up Probabilities, Standardizing Any Normal R.V. Practice Problems Solutions	HW13: Ch. 6: 12, 13, 14, 15 [9, 16]HW14: Ch. 6: 17, 20, 21, 22 [19, 23]
2 June	Chapter 7: Point Estimation	Hand-out (to turn in)
3 June	Chapter 7: Sampling Distribution of x-bar, Central Limit Theorem	HW15: Ch. 7: 26, 29, 31
4 June	Chapter 7: Sampling Distribution of Sample Proportion	HW16: Ch. 7: 37, 39, 42 Hand-out (Solutions)
4 June	Practice for Test #2 Z-probability Solutions Solutions to In-class Handout	Solutions to Test Practice 2
5 June	TEST #2 Formulas for Test 2	(whew!)
6 June	Chapter 8: Interval Estimation of Population Mean: large sample size	HW17: Ch. 8: 5, 10 8
6 June	Chapter 8: CI for Pop. Mean, con't (large & small n), t-distribution	Practice Problems
9 June	Chapter 8: CI for Pop. Mean: small n, Determining Sample Size, CI for Pop. Proportion Problems and Solutions More Practice Problems	HW17b: Ch. 8: 14, 16 17 HW18: Ch. 8: 27, 35, 39 28, 43
9 June	Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing: Introduction	Ch. 9: 6, 7, 8
10 June	Chapter 9: Hypothesis Tests of the Mean, p-values	Ch. 9: 13, 17, 26, 27
10 June	Chapter 9: More Hypothesis Tests of the Mean	Ch. 9: 34, 35
11 June	Chapter 9: Tests of the Population Proportion (Setting up the Hypotheses)	Ch. 9: 45, 47
11 June	Formula Sheet for Study Review for Test3 More Review for Test 3	Solutions to Review For Test 3
12 June	TEST #3	Solutions to More Review
13 June	Chapter 10: Comparisons Involving 2 Population Means	None
13 June	Chapter 10: Confidence Intervals for Diff. in Means: Independent Samples In-class problems	Ch. 10: 2, 4, 7
16 June	Chapter 10: Hypothesis Testing for Diff. in Means: Independent Samples In-class problems	Ch. 10: 11, 15, 16
16 June	Chapter 10: Diff. in Means: Matched Samples Diff. in Means Formulas In-class problems Same data, different Design Solutions Another Problem Set Solutions	Ch. 10: 20, 24
17 June	Chapter 10: Introduction to ANOVA: Terminology and Conceptual Foundation	Hand-out Example
17 June	Chapter 10: ANOVA: Testing the Equality of k Population Means: MSTR & MSE	Solutions to ANOVA Hand-out
18 June	Chapter 10: Performing an Actual F-test ANOVA Output in Excel	Ch. 10: 26, 28, 29
19 June	Review for Final Formulas for the Final Exam	Review Solutions