Chapter 2 Homework
(Starnes, Yates & Moore, 4th edition)
Reading
Section 2.1- Describing Location in a Distribution
N.B. ("Nota Bene" or "Note well"):
Summary p. 104
Density Curves and
, Median
Normal Distribution
Inflection Points, percentile, z-score, transforming data.
Section 2.2- Normal Distributions
N.B.:
Summary p.130
68-95-99.7 Rule, Standard Normal N[0,1], z-scores (again), Calculations, Assessing Normality of a Distribution.
Technology Corner p. 118, 123, 128
Exercises
Section 2.1 (p. 105)
7
11
17
21
25
29
31
Section 2.2 (p. 131)
42
47
49
55
59
63
67
Chapter 2 Review (p. 136)
R2.1
R2.3
R2.9
R2.11
Skills
Reading Table A, normcdf(), invNorm(), ShadeNorm()
Links
Schedule
Textbook quiz and resources
Stanford
Area by z-score
Shodor
David Lane
Seeing Stats, U of Colorado Boulder (Gary McClellan)