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MATH 147 Exam I
Date: Monday Feb. 12, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 1:00
Place: Lecture Hall 1
General Information
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Chapters 1 - 7
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Book
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1 3x5 card with notes Allowed
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Calculator Needed
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Tables will be provided
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Sample Exams on website
Exam Format
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Multiple Choice Questions
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True False Questions
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Fill in the Blanks Questions
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Solving Questions
Review Material
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Material in Textbook
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Old Exams
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Recitation Quizzes
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Problem Assignments
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Review Problems
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Vocabulary
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Discussion Sec No.
Chapter 1
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Controlled experiments
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Randomized Controlled experiments
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Historical controls
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Salk Vaccine trials
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Portacaval Shunt
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Blind experiments
Chapter 2
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Observational Studies
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Clofibrate Trial
» Adherers
is a confounding factor
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Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions
» Weighted
Average
Chapter 3
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Histogram
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Represents numbers by area, not height
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Class interval
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Reading a histogram
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Skip
Sections 3.6 & 3.7
Chapter 4
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Average
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Median
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RMS
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SD
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Rule of Thumb
» 68% are
within 1 SD
» 95 % are
within 2 SDs
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Interquartile Range
Chapter 5
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Finding Areas under the Normal Curve
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Normal Approximation for Data
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Percentiles
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Percentiles and the Normal Curve
Chapter 6
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Chance Error in repeated measurements
» Changes
from observation to observation
» Long
term average is zero
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Outliers in repeated measurements
» Observations
with extreme values
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Bias in repeated measurements
» Does not
change from observation to observation
Chapter 7
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Reading points
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Plotting points
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Slope
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Intercept
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Plotting lines
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Algebraic equation of a line
» y = mx + b
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