Math 160 H
Spring 2010
Final Exam Review
Disclaimer: I have attempted to be comprehensive in the
following, but important items may have been omitted by mistake. If
you see such an omission, please let me know, but you are responsible
for all of the lecture material to date.
The final exam for Math 160 H is scheduled for Monday, May 10, from
4:00 - 6:00 PM.. It will be a
mandatory, two-hour, in class, comprehensive
exam. University regulations require that all students in this section take the
final exam at this date and time.
In your review, you should cover
- Readings in the textbook (through 9.1 (Analysis of two-way tables), with exceptions as noted in
earlier exam reviews)
- Your lecture notes
- Earlier exams and exam review documents
- Homework
Since our last hour exam, we have covered sections 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, and
9.1
- Be able to describe and use Student's t-distribution together with table
D.
- Be able to use Student's t-distribution to establish confidence
intervals and tests of significance for the mean of a population (7.1) and
the comparison of two means (7.2).
- Be able to compute confidence intervals and tests of significance for
single proportions (8.1) and for the comparison of two proportions.
Please note the slightly different ways of computing the standard error when
doing a test of significance in both cases.
- Be able to calculate expected values and the chi-squared statistic for a
simple table. Know the formulas for expected value and the chi-squared
statistic, and be able to use table F.
- You might find it useful in your review to look at the following
problems:
- On pages 490 - 491, problems 8.1 and 8.2
- On page 497, problem 8.3 and 8.4
- On page 501, problems 8.5 and 8.6
- On page 502, problems 8.7 - 8.12 (all). Construct a 95%
confidence interval for the difference between male and female athletes.
- On page 509, problems 8.35 and 8.36
- On page 515, problems 8.37 and 8.38
- On pages 5.17 - 5.18, problems 8.39 - 8.43 (all), 8.46, 8.47
- On pages 5.33 - 5.34, problems 9.1 and 9.2
- On pages 548 - 549, problem 9.7
Any questions? Please ask!