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MATH 147 Exam II

Date: Wednesday March 14, 2007

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Lecture Hall 1

General Information

l   Chapters 8.1 – 14.4

l   Closed Book

l   1 3x5 card with notes

l   Calculator Needed

l   Tables will be provided

l   Sample Exams on Class Website

l   Exam will be timed

Review

l   Material in Textbook

l   Old Quizzes

l   Problem Assignments

l   Review Problems

l   Vocabulary

Chapter 8

l   Scatter Diagram

l   Features of the Correlation Coefficient

»Ranges from -1 to 1

»0 means no association

»+1 or -1 means strong association

»Correlation does not imply causation

l   The SD Line

l   Computing the Correlation Coefficient

Chapter 9

l   Features of the correlation coefficient

l   Changing SDs

l   Outliers

l   Non linear association

l   Association is not causation

Chapter 10

l   Regression line

»  Slope = (r)(SDY)/(SDX)

l   The graph of averages

l   Calculating predicted values

l   The regression effect

l   The regression fallacy

l   Two regression lines

Chapter 11

l   Residuals (Errors)

l   RMS Error =  

l  

Plotting residuals

l   Vertical Strips

l   Normal Curve in a vertical strip

l   Football shaped scatter diagram

l   Hetroscedasticity

l   Homoscedasticity

Chapter 12

l   Regression Slope and Intercept

l   Method of least squares

Chapter 13

l   Properties of chance (probability)

»  Between 0% and 100%

»  opposite events

l   Long run argument

l   Conditional probabilities

l   Multiplication rule

l   Independence

l   Drawing at random with replacement

l   Skip Section 13.5

 

Chapter 14

l   Mutually exclusive events

l   Addition rule

l   At least one occurrence

l   Skip Section 14.5

 

 

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