Notes for Tuesday-Thursday homework due on Nov. 29

Notes on interest, compound interest, effective rates, half life and loans

Notes for homework of Tuesday Thursday class due Nov. 22

Notes on frequency tables and the five number summary

Notes on frequency tables, n (length of list) and sum(x)

Notes on the shared birthday problem

Notes on binomial distributions (on our homework, making free throws)

Notes on using the normal distribution system (z-scores and look-up tables) to find the percentage between two z-score values (on our homework, males listed at a certain height, on the website, females listed at a certain height. Only the mu and sigma are different.)

Notes for Homework 10

I made a mistake labeling this homework assignment, calling it Homework 11. It is actually Homework 10 for the Tuesday-Thursday class.

These notes are from my statistics blog. The links contain a lot of information that we won't get to in Math for Liberal Arts. You should be able to search in your web browser for words like "mean", "median" and "mode", etc.

Notes on mean, median and mode

Notes on the five summary and outliers

Notes on raw scores to z-scores to proportions, also percentiles to z-scores to raw scores

Link to the biographies of five computer scientists, questions on in the in-class section of midterm 2

Five computer scientists