The exam will cover Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the book (except for section 4-7) and material discussed in class upto and including page 113.

Homework, quiz and old exam problems are a good source of practice. Solutions to homeworks have been posted elsewhere on the class homepage. The best way to prepare for the exam is to work practice problems. It is not necessary to memorize formulae as you are allowed one 8.5 by 11 inch "crib sheet". Rework quiz and homework problems that might have given you trouble, work in-class examples, and look at unassigned problems in the book; the chapter review problems might be a good start. Here are a few suggestions:

1) "The Nature of Statistics"

ISBE 1.11, 1.15.

2) "Descriptive Statistics"

ISBE 2.2-2.4, 2.9, 2.24, 2.41.

3) "Probability"

ISBE 3.5, 3.8, 3.13, 3.18, 3.23, 3.41, 3.45.

4) "Probability Distributions" (Except Section 4-7).

ISBE 4.5, 4.6, 4.15, 4.26, 4.36.

5) "Two Random Variables" (All Sections).

ISBE 5.14, and 5.20-5.23.

Then test yourself by taking an old Stat 110B midterm. Most problems on tests labeled 'Exam 1' are from the material we've covered, but only some of the problems on those labeled 'Exam 2' are. The exams are provided in 2 formats: pdf and postscript. You should at least be able to view the pdf version (some students have reported trouble printing the pdf files). You can print the postscript versions at any of the acpub unix clusters. On a unix cluster machines, netscape will start a postscript viewer called Ghostview to display the document; to print click on the File option and choose Print. You may be able to print postscript files from Macs and PCs if appropriately configured.

Exam 1, Spring 1998 ( pdf format, postscript format).

Exam 1, Fall 1997 ( pdf format, postscript format).

Exam 2, Spring 1998 ( pdf format, postscript format). Problem 1 only.

Exam 1, Spring 1999 ( pdf format, postscript format). Problem 1 only.

Each of these exams should take you about one hour and fifteen minutes.