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For your convenience, the MS PowerPoint class notes have been saved in pdf format.  You may download the class notes  files to use as a reference as you study.  Please remember to read the course text and to work on the accompanying exercises in the text as well as to use the various resources available on MyMathLab.  You are responsible for the material discussed during class, provided in the MS PowerPoint notes, and contained in the course text and any additional readings.

• An Introduction to Statistics
• Frequency Distributions and Relative Frequency Distributions
• Designing Experiments to Reduce Variability
• Sampling
• Random Samples
• Visualizing Distributions
• Graphical Displays for
  • Qualitative Variables
  • Quantitative Variables
• What Makes a Good Graph?
• Misleading Graphs
• Measures of Center and Spread
• Language Hints
• Basic Probability
• Probability of Compound Events
• Conditional Probability
• Basic Counting
• Random Variables and Discrete Probability Distributions
• Binomial Distribution
• Normal Distribution
• Sampling Distributions
• Confidence Intervals
• Hypothesis Testing
• Scatterplots (a.k.a. Scatter Diagrams)
• Least Squares Regression Line
• Interpreting the Slope and the y-Intercept
• Correlation

Please remember that your questions are important to me, that I want to help you to do well in the course, and that there is no such thing as a stupid question.

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