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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Weds HW/Snow Day/Friday HW

Tonight (and/or on your likely snow today tomorrow) please complete the 6 multiple choice (review) questions provided in class or below! I may collect this and grade it as a quiz!

When we have our next class (probably Friday) we will get back into chapter 18, sampling distributions!
  • Much of this math will be based on the Normal model--so it's a great idea to review your chapter 6 notes about z scores, normalcdf, and invnorm!
    • 2 of these 6 homework MC are based on this chapter 6 stuff!
  • And if you'd like to get a head start, here is the weekend homework! I may add more to this...we'll see what happens in class....
    • Page 428:
      • Check the conditions: 7b, 11, 23 (conditions only!)
      • Normal Model Review: 25ab
      • Also do #1abd
        • For a,b...think! You got this!
        • For 1d we're asked why we can't use a Normal model here--that's because one of the 3 conditions for a sampling distribution for proportions fails....to answer 1d, state/show which of the 3 conditions fails
  •  You can also read chapter 18! The more you read on your own, the more "ahead" you'll be! 
  • Finally, here are some writing templates on the conditions if you're trying to start your homework:
    • Randomization: we can only know if a sample is random if this information is given to us in the context! If not, we'll have to assume we have a random sample or random assignment or representative data. Try to use one of the sentences below...
      • "It is stated that our sample of _____ was collected randomly."
      • "It is stated that our sample of _____ is a representative sample."
      • Or, look for random assignment...
      • If neither of those apply....
        • "We can assume our sample of _____ is a random/representative sample."
    • 10% Condition: here we have to check that our sample (size) is less than 10% of the population size! We might not know the size of the population, so we might also have to "assume" for this condition
      • "Our sample of ______ is less than 10% of all _____ (define the population, in context)."
      • "We can assume that our sample of ______ is less than 10% of all ______."
    • Remember, the third condition differs depending on the type of data...
      • Quantitative Data = means = sampling distribution for means (23)
        • Large Enough Sample:
          • "Our sample of _______ is large enough." (We want a sample of at least 25)
          • OR...
          • "It stated that the distribution of _____ is unimodal and symmetric (approximately Normal)."
      • Categorical data = %'s = proportions = sampling distribution for proportions (7b and 11)
        • Success/Failure Condition:
          • np > 10
          • nq > 10
          • Do the math!
          • p represents the % that we are given in the question
          • q = 1 - p; so if p = 70% or 0.7, then q = 1 - 0.7 = 0.3
          • And remember, n is our sample size


And here are those MC for tonight's (Wednesday's) HW:





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