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 |
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| 1.1 | ||
| Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments MP4 Video |
1.2 | |
| Simple Random Sampling MP4 Video |
1.3 | |
| Other Sampling Methods MP4 Video (An offensive, outmoded word was replaced in a thought bubble. I am sorry for any hurt caused.) |
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 MP4 Video |
1.6 | |
| Organizing Qualitative Data MP4 Video (A review of inferential and descriptive statistics has since been added.) |
2.1 | |
Organizing Quantitative Data |
2.2 | |
| Graphical Misrepresentations of Data MP4 Video |
2.3 | |
| Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode MP4 Video (Slight changes were since made.) |
3.1 | |
| Measures of Dispersion: Range, Standard Deviation, and Variance MP4 Video (Slight changes were since made.) |
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 MP4 Video |
3.5 | |
| Scatter Diagrams and Correlation MP4 Video (I have since added a word to examples 2 and 3 and bolded a paragraph on page 6.) |
4.1 | |
| Least-Squares Regression MP4 Video (I have since added some instructions for StatCrunch on page 3.) |
4.2 | |
| 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 |
5.2 | |
| Independent Events and the Multiplication Rule MP4 Video (A sentence explaining F and F^C has since been added to page 5.) |
5.3 | |
| Conditional Probability MP4 Video (The Notes have since changed a bit.) |
5.4 | |
| Counting Techniques: Combinations and Permutations MP4 Video (The Notes have since changed a bit.) |
5.5 | |
| Discrete Random Variables MP4 Video |
6.1 | |
| The Binomial Probability Distribution MP4 Video (The Notes have since changed a bit.) |
6.2 | |
| The Normal Probability Distribution MP4 Video |
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 MP4 Video |
7.3 | |
| Distribution of the Sample Mean MP4 Video (I have since added a paragraph at the end explaining how to deal with population data if it is given to you.) |
8.1 | |
Distribution of the Sample Proportion |
8.2 | |
Confidence Intervals for Population Proportions |
9.1 | |
| 9.2 | ||
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing MP4 Video (I have since added a definition and optional worksheet on page 6.) |
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 | |