General Education Statistics Class Notes

You should print out the Class Notes and complete them as you watch the videos. For in-person classes, you will be provided a copy of the Class Notes and we will complete them together.

Name of Section

Section of Michael Sullivan's Fundamentals of Statistics, 6th edition

Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
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1.1
Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments
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1.2
Simple Random Sampling
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1.3
Other Sampling Methods
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1.4
Bias in Sampling
MP4 Video (An introductory example at the beginning of the Notes has since been added.)
1.5
The Design of Experiments
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1.6
Organizing Qualitative Data
MP4 Video (A review of inferential and descriptive statistics has since been added.)
2.1

Organizing Quantitative Data
MP4 Video (Definitions and examples were since added and some rearranged. Split-stem stemplots were deleted.)
Completed version (PDF) from Fall 2024 (newer version)

2.2
Graphical Misrepresentations of Data
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2.3
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
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3.1
Measures of Dispersion: Range, Standard Deviation, and Variance
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3.2
Measures of Position and Outliers: Z-scores, Percentiles, Quartiles, and Interquartile Range
MP4 Video (An example about ogives was since added at the end. Here is a copy of my written Notes for this page.)
3.4
The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots
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3.5
Scatter Diagrams and Correlation
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4.1
Least-Squares Regression
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4.2

The Coefficient of Determination
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4.3
Introduction to Probability
MP4 Video (The Notes have since changed a slight bit. The examples from 4 on are renumbered.)
5.1

The Addition Rule (for “OR” events) and Complements
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5.2
Independent Events and the Multiplication Rule
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5.3
Conditional Probability
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5.4
Counting Techniques: Combinations and Permutations
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5.5
Discrete Random Variables
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6.1
The Binomial Probability Distribution
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6.2
The Normal Probability Distribution
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7.1
Applications of the Normal Distribution
MP4 Video (The Notes have since changed a bit. I also amended example 6 and the instructions at the bottom of page 5.)
7.2
Assessing Normality
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7.3
Distribution of the Sample Mean
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8.1

Distribution of the Sample Proportion
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(I have since added one example and changed a bit of wording.)

Completed version of Notes (Fall 2023)

8.2

Confidence Intervals for Population Proportions
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Completed version of Notes (Fall 2023)

9.1

Confidence Intervals for Population Means

Completed Version of Notes (Fall 2023)

9.2

Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

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10.1

Hypothesis Tests for Population Proportions

MP4 Video (I have since deleted example 3, replacing it with a table to better explain P-value. I added technology instructions and renumbered examples 4 and 5. I deleted example 6 and added a discussion of p-hacking.)

10.2

Hypothesis Tests for Population Means

Completed PDF version of Notes (Fall 2024) This is labeled for Math 235 but is the same.

10.3