MATH 241 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

SUMMER 2008


Instructor Information

Name Office Office Hours Phone Email Sections
John Hossler Corbin 361 Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu 11-12:30 in Math 103 243-4489 jzhoss@mso.umt.edu 60,61
Jordan Purdy Corbin 361 Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu 10:45-11:30, 12:45-2:00 in Math 311 243-4489 jordan.purdy@grizmail.umt.edu 62,63
Jon Graham Math 204 By appointment only 243-2561 jgraham@mso.umt.edu 60,61
Matt Roscoe Corbin 367 By appointment only 243-4469 roscoem@mso.umt.edu 62,63
Mike O'Lear Math 011 Mon,Tue,Wed 2:00-4:00 in Math 011 m.olear@mso.umt.edu

General Information

  • Course Syllabus - Sections 60,61
  • Course Syllabus - Sections 62,63
  • Topic Outline

    SPSS Manual (fac-pac)

  • Table of Contents - pages 1-2
  • Chapter 1 (Introduction to SPSS) - pages 3-16
  • Chapter 2 (Examining Distributions) - pages 17-38
  • Chapter 3 (Looking at Data: Relationships) - pages 39-66
  • Chapter 4 (Sampling Distributions) - pages 67-72
  • Chapter 5 (Inference for Population Means) - pages 73-82
  • Chapter 6 (Inference for Two-Way Tables) - pages 83-85

    • Calculator Help

    If you have questions about how to use your TI calculator to perform some type of statistical analysis, you might try the following link:

  • Help for TI graphing calculators
  • There are many other sites on the web with help for using various calculators: try a Google search with your calculator model.
  • For information about purchasing calculators at local stores, click here.

    • Tutors

    Some tutoring sources:
  • Students Tutoring Students (Lommasson Center 269, 243-2294)
  • Educational Opportunities Program (Lommasson Center 154, 243-5032)
  • Private math tutors (Math Office, 243-5311)
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    SPSS Data Files

    To download, right-click and select "Save Target As" or "Save Link As"

    FOR SECTIONS 60 & 61 WITH JOHN
    Topic Datafiles
    2 pennystates-60.sav,
    pennystates-61.sav
    4 generationM-6061.sav
    5 strengthshoes-6061.sav
    7 BloodPressures.sav
    8 DealAmounts.sav - Act. 8-2
    Matching.sav - Act. 8-3
    Rowers04.sav - Act. 8-4
    SeatBeltUsage05.sav - Act. 8-5
    agesalary-6061.sav - HW 8-20,26
     
    9 acquaintances-6061.sav
     
    ValuesFJ.sav - Act. 9-3 HypoStdDev.sav - HW 9-25
    10 IceCreamCalories.sav - Act. 10-3
    FanCost06.sav - Act. 10-4
    26 measurements-60.sav - Act. 26-5
    measurements-61.sav - Act. 26-5
    TVlife06.sav - Act. 26-6
    Arbys06.sav - HW 26-14
    27 Cars99.sav - Act. 27-1
    Governors05.sav - Act. 27-2
    TVlife06.sav - Act. 27-3
    ExamScores.sav - Act. 27-6
    HMCdonors.sav - HW 27-16
    Climate.sav - HW 27-19
    28 HousePricesAG.sav - Act. 28-2
    TrotSpeeds.sav - Act. 28-3
    ElectricBill.sav - HW 28-11
    BoxOffice05.sav - HW 28-17
    TVlife06.sav - HW 28-19
    11 RandomBabies-60.sav - Act. 11-1
    RandomBabies-61.sav - Act. 11-1
    12 BloodPressures.sav - Act. 12-3
    14 CoinAges-60.sav - Act. 14-1
    CoinAges-61.sav - Act. 14-1
    14 Activity 14-2 graphs
    19 Activity 19-5
    19 Act. 19-5 data & graph

    FOR SECTIONS 62 & 63 WITH JORDAN
    Topic Datafiles
    2 pennystates-62.sav,
    pennystates-63.sav
    4 generationM-6263.sav
    5
    7 BloodPressures.sav
    8 DealAmounts.sav - Act. 8-2
    Matching.sav - Act. 8-3
    Rowers04.sav - Act. 8-4
    SeatBeltUsage05.sav - Act. 8-5
    agesalary-62.sav - HW 8-20,26
    agesalary-63.sav - HW 8-20,26
    9 acquaintances-62.sav - Act. 26-5
    acquaintances-63.sav - Act. 26-5
    ValuesFJ.sav - Act. 9-3
    HypoStdDev.sav - HW 9-25
    10 IceCreamCalories.sav - Act. 10-3
    FanCost06.sav - Act. 10-4
    26 measurements-62.sav - Act. 26-5
    measurements-63.sav - Act. 26-5
    TVlife06.sav - Act. 26-6
    Arbys06.sav - HW 26-14
    27 Cars99.sav - Act. 27-1
    Governors05.sav - Act. 27-2
    TVlife06.sav - Act. 27-3
    ExamScores.sav - Act. 27-6
    HMCdonors.sav - HW 27-16
    Climate.sav - HW 27-19
    28 HousePricesAG.sav - Act. 28-2
    TrotSpeeds.sav - Act. 28-3
    ElectricBill.sav - HW 28-11
    BoxOffice05.sav - HW 28-17
    TVlife06.sav - HW 28-19
    11 RandomBabies-62.sav - Act. 11-1
    RandomBabies-63.sav - Act. 11-1
    12 BloodPressures.sav - Act. 12-3
    14 CoinAges-62.sav - Act. 14-1
    CoinAges-63.sav - Act. 14-1
    14 Activity 14-2 graphs
    19 Activity 19-5
    19 Act. 19-5 data & graph

    Campus Labs with SPSS

    The UC 225 Lab has SPSS on odd-numbered machines only.
    Lab Hours
    LA 240 Mon-Fri 8:00am-5:00pm
    LA 242 Mon-Fri 8:00am-5:00pm
    UC 225 Mon-Thu 8:00am-8:00pm, Fri 8:00am-5:00pm
    Library Mon-Thu 7:00am-10:00pm, Fri 7:00am-5:00pm,
    Sat-Sun 10:30am-6:30pm

    Homework Assignments

    Due at the beginning of class; (S) indicates SPSS data set
    Homework Problems Due date
    1 1-7(a,d,g,j,m,p,s,v,y),1-12,
    1-16,2-9,2-12,2-17    		 Wed, May 21
    2 3-8,3-12,3-16,3-20 Thu, May 22
    3 4-9,4-13,4-15,4-20 Wed, May 28
    4 5-7,5-13,5-15,5-20,5-22 Thu, May 29
    5 6-14,6-23,6-26,6-29 Tue, June 3
    6 7-8(a,c,e,g,i),7-11,7-21,7-23(S) Thu, June 5
    7 8-12,8-20(S),8-26(S),9-20 Tue, June 10
    8 9-11,9-25(S),10-6,10-13,10-19 Thu, June 12
    9 26-8,26-14(S),26-19,27-14,27-16(S) Tue, June 17
    10 27-19(S),28-6,28-11(S),28-17(S) Wed, June 18
    11 11-6,11-7(a,b,e,f,h,j,k),11-10,11-11 Wed, June 25
    12 12-5,12-9,12-17,12-18 Thu, June 26
    13 13-5,13-9,14-10,14-11 Wed, July 2
    14 15-7,15-11,16-16,16-20 Tue, July 8
    15 17-7,17-8,17-18,17-21 Thu, July 10
    16 18-10,18-11,18-21 Tue, July 15
    17 19-12,19-13,19-14 Thu, July 17
    18 20-5,20-6,20-9 Mon, July 21
    19 21-15(a-d),21-20,21-28 Wed, July 23
    20 22-16(a-d),23-19(d-i) Thu, July 24
    Practice 17-13,18-17,19-11,20-15,21-14,22-9 NA

    Test #4 will be given on Thursday, July 24 and will cover Topics 17-23. Please bring the following items to this exam: Review sessions for this exam will be given at the following times. You are welcome to attend either session or both if desired: Finally, to allow you 15 additional minutes to take the exam (to hopefully remove some of the time pressure), the exams for the different sections will be given at the following times:


    Last modified: 21-July-2008