Review Exam 1 Math 201 (B. Olson)

Chapter 1:

1.  What is the difference between Population Data and Sample Data?

2.  Give an example of quantitative data and qualitative data.

3.  What is necessary for a Simple Random Sample of size n?

4.  What are the levels of measurement in Statistics?

5.  What are the types of Sampling Techniques and their drawbacks?

6.  What is the difference between Observational data and Experimental data?

7.  What does it mean to be a double-blind test?

Chapter 2:

1.  Give the characteristics of the following types of “graphs”. 

Also know how to graph each of them.

            a)  Bar graph

            b)  Circle graph

            c)  Time Plot

            d)  Pareto graph

e)  Histogram

f)  Polygon graph

            g)  Ogive

            h)  Stem and Leaf Diagram

2.  What does it mean for a distribution to be:

            a)  Symmetric

            b)  Uniform

c)  Skewed

            d)  BiModal

Chapter 3:

1.  What are the measures of Central Tendency?  Know how to find each.

2.  What are the measures of Dispersion?  Know how to find each.

3.  What is Chebyshev’s theorem?  What does it tell us?

4.  What is the Coefficient of Variation?  Why is it used?

5.  Be able to find the Mean and Standard Deviation of grouped data.

6.  What is a Percentile?  What is a Quartile?

7.  How do you make a Box and Whiskers Plot?

8.  What “average” is used with Quartiles and Box and Whiskers Plot?

9.  What “average” is used with standard deviation and distribution graphs?

Chapter 4:

1.   What is the definition of probability?

2.  What are the three major methods of finding probability?

3.  State the Law of Large numbers.

4.  Give six important facts about probability.  (Page 155)

5.  What does it mean for two events to be independent or dependent?

6.  What does it mean for two events to be mutually exclusive?

7.  Compound events use what two words in the statements to find probability?

8.  Give seven basic probability rules for events A and B.  (Page 174)

9.  Be able to make a tree diagram for probability and counting.

10.  What is the multiplication rule of counting?

11.  What is a Permutation?

12.  What is a Combination?

Read the Chapter Review for Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 in the textbook.  Review Homework problems.  Know what cards make up a deck of cards.  Know the sum of two dice and their combinations.

Try Larry Green’s Practice Exam 1.

http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/courses/201/keys/pMid1.htm