Course Outline:

Chapter 1: Exploring Data ( total time: 10 days )

Constructing and interpreting graphical displays of distributions of univariate data.

Center: mean, median, and mode.
Measuring spread: range, interquartile range, and standard deviation.
Shape: symmetric bell shaped, skewed left, skewed right, and uniform.
Features: clusters, gaps, and outliers.

Chapter 2: The Normal Distributions ( total time: 7 days )

Symmetric bell shaped: Measuring postion: quartiles, percentiles, and standardized scores
( z-scores )

Chapter 3: Examining Relationships and Section 4.2: Interpreting Correlation and

Regression ( total time: 10 days )

Analyzing patterns in scatterplots:

Correlation and Linearity:
The least squares regression line:
Residual plots:
Outliers and influential points:

Section 4.1 Modeling Nonlinear Relationships and Handout Packet ( total time: 7 days )

Transformations to achieve linearity:

Fitting a curve:

Section 4.3 Relations in Categorical Data ( total time: 5 days )

Frequency tables and bar charts:

Marginal and joint frequencies for two-way tables
Conditional relative frequencies and association:
Comparing distributions using bar charts:

Nine Weeks Exam:

Chapter 5: Producing Data ( total time: 10 days )

Overview of methods of data collection:

Planning and conducting surveys:
Planning and conducting experiments:
Generalizability of results and types of conclusions that can be drawn from observational
studies, experiments, and surveys

Chapter 6: Probability: The Study of Randomness ( total time: 8 days )

Rules of probability:
Law of Large Numbers concept:
Addition rule, multiplication rule, conditional probability, and independence:

Chapter 7: Random Variables and Section 5.3: Simulating Experiments and Handout
Packet ( total time: 10 days )

Mean ( expected value ) and standard deviation of a random variable, and linear
transformation of a random variable:
Simulation of random behavior:
Probability distributions:

Chapter 8: The Binomial and Geometric Distributions: ( total time: 9 days )

Discrete random variables and their probability distributions:

First Semester Exam and Review ( total time: 4 days )

Chapter 9: Sampling Distributions ( total time: 8 days )

Sampling distributions( proportion and mean ):

Central limit theorem:

Chapter 10: Introduction to Inference ( total time 11 days )

Confidence intervals:
Tests of Significance:

Chapter 11: Inference for Distributions ( total time 9 days )

t-distribution:
Large sample test versus small sample test:
Confidence intervals and Hypothesis testing ( mean or difference between two means )
Matched Pairs versus two samples:
Chapter 12: Inference for Proportions ( total time: 7 days )

Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing ( proportion or difference between two

proportions ).

Chapter 13: Inference for Tables: Chi-Square Procedures ( total time: 7 days )

Chi-square test for goodness of fit and homogeneity of proportions:

Chi-square test of independence:

Chapter 14: Inference for Regression: ( total time: 6 days )

Test for the slope or correlation of a least-squares regression line:

Third Nine Weeks Exam

Section 10.4: Inference as a Decision ( total time: 5 days )

Concept of type I and type II errors:

Concept of power:
Review for AP Exam and Final Exam ( total time: 13 days )
Post AP Exam ( total time: 11 days )
Annenburg/CPB. Against All Odds: Inside Statistics. Washington, D.C..: The
Annenburg/CPB Collection, 1989
Group Projects( 10 days ) ( Chance for students to show they can bring entire course
knowledge into play) Project must show understand of design, data analysis and drawing
inferences. Students must be specific as to their methods of data collection as well has
how they analyzed their data. They must also be able to interpret their results in context
that show statistical knowledge of all terms used.