Math 160
Fall 2009
Exam 3 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 third hour exam for Math 160 will be held on Friday, November 13, and
will cover section 3.3 through section 4.4 (skipping section 4.5) of the textbook. In particular, be prepared
to:
- Be able to discuss sampling variability and sampling distributions
- Be able to discuss bias and variability
- Be able to discuss issues in ethics and the role of the IRB.
- Be able to solve basic probability problems.
- Know the rules of probability and be able to use them to assign
probabilities to outcomes and events
- Be able to work with discrete random variables and to calculate the mean
and standard deviation of discrete random variables (and be able to work
with sums and linear transformations of means and variances).
- Be able to describe the law of large numbers.
- Be able to give definitions for the terms introduced in the exam
material. Once again, though you are responsible for all of the exam
material, the end-of-section summaries are a very good place to start.
A calculator may be used for this exam, but only to calculate arithmetical
operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide). You may not use the
statistical functions of your calculator on this exam.
Any questions? Please ask!