Practice Problems/Study Hints for Exam 3

Homework and quiz 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 three (3) 8.5 by 11 inch "crib sheets". Rework quiz and homework problems that might have given you trouble, work in-class examples, and look at unassigned problems in the book. The exam covers most of chapters 1 through 14 (see below for exceptions), however an emphasis will be given to the material corresponding to chapters 11 through 14; here are a few suggestions:

Chapters 1 through 5
1) "The Nature of Statistics"
2) "Descriptive Statistics"
3) "Probability",
4) "Probability Distributions" (Sections 1-6)
5) "Two Random Variables," (All Sections).

ISBE 5-27, 5-29, 5-31, 5-33, 5-35, 5-37 (pg 182+).

Chapters 6 through 9
6) "Sampling," (Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4).
7) "Point Estimation," (All Sections).
8) "Confidence Intervals," (Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5).
9) "Hypothesis Testing," (Sections 1-3).

ISBE 10-17, 10-21, 10-23, 10-25 (pg 350+).

Chapters 11 through 14
11) "Fitting a Line"
12) "Simple Regression"
13) "Multiple Regression" (Sections 1 through 5)
14) "Regression Extensions" (Sections 1 through 4)

ISBE 11-7, 12-5, 13-5, 13-9, 13-27, 14-1, 14-25.


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