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Resource Economics 211
Introductory Statistics for the Life Sciences
Fall 2008
Professor Dan Lass

MWF 9:05 - 9:55
Thompson 104

Handouts

Registering your PRS clicker in OWL

Example Exams: Exam 1 ; Exam 2 ; Final (pdf files)

Grouped Data Tables and Histograms: Student phone bills (pdf)

Used Accords (pdf)

Days to Maturity and Cholesterol (pdf)

Summations Problem (pdf)

Key - Supreme Court Standard Deviation (Excel)

Formula Sheet - includes all formulas for course (pdf)
Formula Sheet
(Word)

Handout for Lecture 10: Student Survey Results and Outliers (pdf)

Rules of Probability with Examples (pdf)

List of Excel Functions useful in Stats (Word)

Binomial Probabilities in Excel (Excel)

Data for the Excel/Minitab Session (Excel)

Calculating Binomial Probabilities Using Minitab (pdf)

Binomial Distributions - Guessing on Exams (pdf)

The Bradley On-Time Question - Key (pdf)
Bradley On-Time/Delayed Probabilities (Excel)

Z-Table (pdf)
Using the Cumulative Z-Table. (pdf)

Sampling Distribution Simulation in Minitab - Instructions (pdf)

t-Table

6 Steps for Hypothesis Tests

US Obesity Rates

Gallup Honesty Poll

Final Formula Sheet (pdf)
Final Formula Sheet (Word file)

 

A Grade Calclulator
(Don't spend too much time on this! Study!)