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MATH 1342 Elementary Statistics

This page is intended to connect tutors of students enrolled in my Elementary Statistics course with the resources they need in order to help a student in this course.

A note to the tutor

Please make sure students are using my handouts to set expectations for how to answer different instruction types. Presumably you are familiar with statistical concepts and can help clarify them for students. If a student is using you as a replacement for, rather than a supplement to, what I have posted in the course, they tend to struggle much more than needed. You can direct the student to some of these handouts, and help make sure they really read the homework solutions, so that they will understand exactly what is expected of them.

General information

• • You can find all of my class notes with video links at Class Notes (Lock book)

  • Test reviews for all of my tests are available in my test reviews google drive folder

  • The written homework solutions have lots of description about my expectations for how to answer question types. You cannot access them without help from the student, but it would be good to go through them together.

  • Read the How to study for a test in Statistics document, as it highlights the important language used and expectations set in the questions I ask.

  • Information about our course, put together by the MATH 1342 course committee, can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/austincc.edu/math-students/courses/math1342/tutor. This information is NOT specific to my section of the course, but helps provide some more general background information.

Supplements

• • Defining a parameter (starting in chapter 3)

  • Confidence interval summary (starting in chapter 3)

  • Hypothesis test summary (starting in chapter 4)

Standard error calculators (chapter 6):

Students are not required to use the SE formulas for a difference of means or for a difference of proportions. On homework, they can use an applet (see below), and on tests the SE value will be given to them.

Difference of means (6.4): SE difference of means

Difference of proportions (6.3): SE difference of proportions

Use this compute the difference applet to create a new variable for the pairwise differences of two variables in a matched pairs study.

Tables

My sections of MATH 1342 use a different table from some of the other sections. You may see references to Table A elsewhere, but mine is P-values and Critical Values for Normal and t Distributions. This handout applies starting in chapter 6. See this Tutorial for Finding P-values by Hand for tips on how to use the handout. This is the process students are expected to follow on tests.