Random samples and statistical audits

Week 6: February 17 through 21

MATH 214 ~ Probability and Statistics for Business Majors ~ Spring 2003

Class meeting schedule and topics

Monday, February 17 ~	Snow day
Wednesday, February 19 ~	Random numbers and random sampling
Friday, February 21 ~	Sampling distributions
Monday, February 24 ~	The Central Limit Theorem
Wednesday, February 26 ~	Confidence intervals
Friday, February 28 ~	Testing statistical hypotheses

Homework Assignments

13. Due Wednesday, February 19

    Required work

    • Review pages 157 through 161 about random sampling
    • Exercises 5.2, 5.4, and 5.10 on pages 218 and 219

    Optional work

    • Exercises 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, and 5.11 on pages 218 and 219

14. Due Friday, February 21

    Required work

    • Read pages 270 through 276 in Section 6.3 on the Central Limit Theorem
    • Exercise 3.55 on page 161

    Optional work

    • Exercises 3.54 and 3.56 on pages 161 and 162

15. Due Monday, February 24

    Required work

    • Read pages 288 through 293 in Section 7.1 on Large-Sample Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean
    • Exercises 6.19 and 6.20 on page 277

    Optional work

    • Exercises 6.15, 6.16, 6.18, and 6.21 on page 277

16. Due Wednesday, February 26

    Required work

    • Exercise 7.4 on page 293

    Optional work

    • Exercises 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.5 on pages 293 and 294

17. Due Friday, February 28

    Required work

    • Audit sampling project assignment due.