M 358K Assignments (Smith, Unique 57250, MWF 12 - 1, Spring 06)
Friday, January 20
Monday, January 23 (Corrected 9:25 am, Monday, January 23)
Wednesday, January 25
Friday, January 27
Monday, January 30
Wednesday, February 1
Friday, February 3
Monday, February 6 Added to 1 pm. Friday, February 3
Wednesday, February 8 Added to 12:30 pm. Sunday, February 8
Friday, February 10
Monday, February 13
Wednesday, February 15
Friday, February 17
Monday, February 20 Added
12 noon Sunday, February 19: You may also want to review and bring the
first two pages of the handout Properties of the Correlation
Coefficient, from Monday, January 30.
Wednesday, February 22
Friday, February 24: First exam. (See Review Problems linked from class home page or February 17 assignment.)
Monday, February 27:
Project Proposal due (There is also a reading assignment, with related exercises.)
Wednesday, March 1 Correction added 2/27/06.
Friday, March 3
Monday, March 6
Wednesday, March 8
- Note that Problem 5.54 has three parts -- part (c) is on p. 376.
- Also, be sure to review any reading and exercises from Monday that were not discussed in class Monday.
Friday, March 10
Monday, March 20 Revised March 10 13
Wednesday, March 22 3/20/06: Problem 6.110 (p. 445) has been deleted from this assignment.
Friday, March 24: Revised project proposals due (May be turned in earlier.) Plus reading and exercises.
Monday, March 27
Wednesday, March 29
Friday, March 31
Monday, April 3
Wednesday, April 5 Added 4/2/06: In part (e), remember to explain why
you have chosen the null and alternate hypotheses that you specify.
Remember that the appropriate choice depends on the context explained
in the paragraph before the data, so you need to say what in the
context tells you what hypotheses are appropriate.
Friday, April 7
Monday, April 10
Wednesday, April 12 The
problems to be handed in will require computer work and attention to
writing, so be sure to start early enough to be able to complete the
assignment. Added
4/9: The data for Exercise 1.120 are in the file ta01_009 of the
Chapter 1 folder of the textbook data files. More hints on how to do
the computer work involved have been added to the assignment.
Friday, April 14 The exercises in this assignment require use of software.
Monday, April 17
Wednesday, April 19
Friday, April 21
Monday, April 24
Wednesday, April 26
Note: The last problem to hand in is continued on p. 668. Problems to hand in require use of software.
Second exam: Friday, April 14
Friday, April 28 Review Problems for Second Exam
Note: Corrected version posted April 23 -- adding suggested textbook problems 8.21, 8.23, 8.59, 8.63.
Hints for Review Problems New 4/27/06; will be updated as other questions are asked.
Monday, May 1
Wednesday, May 3 Written homework requires use of software.
Friday, May 5 Project report due. Be sure to follow Project Report Guidelines. Note that in addition to handing in one project report for your whole group, each group member should hand in, separately, a short
description of i) the role of each member in the work of the
project group, and ii) what he or she (the individual writer) learned from doing the
project.