Day 2: STA205 - Introduction to Statistical Methods

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• Announcements:
  • Reminder: please hide your rectangles.
  • Roll
  • A couple of people haven't signed the Class agreement. I'll need you to sign it.
  • Syllabus: any questions?
  • You have an assignment due next week, Friday (these imath assignments -- on-line homework -- will be due by midnight).

    Great news! I checked on imath this morning, and 35 of you have signed up. There are 35 in this class! Great news!

    Except that I have two sections, so I should have 70 signed up by now.... Get signed up, and get started!

  • Next week, Thursday, you'll have your first short quiz at the end of the class. No quiz today.

• Today:
  • Last time we started work on Packet 1: the normal distribution. Today we finish it. Please get out your copy.

  • Today we finish that packet.
    • If you don't have your Packet 1, just take out some paper and make notes that you can use to transfer to your packet when you DO get it printed out.
    • We will need the Standard Normal Table of probabilities for some of our work today.

• Links:

  • When videos are referenced in the notes, consult Brooke's collection of on-line videos for the appropriate one.