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| Week | Reading | Remarks |
| 8/26 | Ch1, 2 | Tables, Percentiles, and Histograms. Measures of Location and Spread. |
| 9/2 | Ch 3, 4 | Labor Day Monday Multivariate Data. Association and Correlation. |
| 9/9 | Ch 5, 6 | Regression. Regression Caveats. |
| 9/16 | Ch 7, 8 | Counting. Probability. |
| 9/23 | Ch 9, 10 | More probability. "Let's Make a Deal." |
| 9/30 | Ch 11 | More "Let's Make a Deal:" the binomial distribution. |
| 10/7 | In-class review Tuesday; midterm Thursday on Ch 1-10 | |
| 10/14 | Ch 12 | Discrete Distributions. |
| 10/21 | Ch 13, 14 | Example: Trade Secret Litigation. The Long Run and Expected Value. |
| 10/28 | Ch 15, 16 | Standard Error. Normal Curve, Central Limit Theorem, Markov's and Chebychev's inequalities. |
| 11/4 | Ch 17 | Sample Surveys and Sampling Designs. |
| 11/11 | Ch 18, 19 | Estimating Means and Percentages, Confidence Intervals. |
| 11/18 | Ch 20 | Thanksgiving Break Thursday, Friday Hypothesis testing: does chance explain the results? |
| 11/25 | Ch 24, 25 | Experiments and Observational Studies. Case Study: The Kassel Dowsing Experiment. |
| 12/2 | Review | Last week of class; in-class review. |
| 12/9 | Exams | Final Exam: Thursday 12/13/01 12:30-3:30pm |