Lab Assignments for Cornell University Math 171


2007  January               February               March                 April                  May         
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
    1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3               1  2  3   1  2  3  4  5  6  7         1  2  3  4  5
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   8  9 10 11 12 13 14   6  7  8  9 10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17  11 12 13 14 15 16 17  15 16 17 18 19 20 21  13 14 15 16 17 18 19
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  22 23 24 25 26 27 28  20 21 22 23 24 25 26
28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28           25 26 27 28 29 30 31  29 30                 27 28 29 30 31

Generally lab assignments will be performed during recitation on Thursdays and written up to be turned in the following Thursday.

Please understand that the lab time is for doing the software part of the assignment. You should work together to create the graphs, run the stats analysis, etc, cutting and pasting results into a layout or Word document. You can print the layout or create a pdf and email any files to yourself or put them on a USB flash drive. Later on at home you can write up your answers to the rest of the questions individually to be handed in. Answers may be handwritten directly on a printout of your layout if convenient.

Table of Contents

Caution:

When you save a file to your removable media and especially when you go to attach to an eMail, be sure the file is closed!
Safest is to Quit and Save from DataDesk , your word processor, or your PDF reader then work with the file.
Sad stories abound of people who sent themselves an eMail with an attachment having 0 Bytes because the file was open when they sent the eMail.

Lab Exercise #00: Data Desk Orientation

25 Jan - Lab Exercises Data Desk Orientation
nothing to hand in

Lab Exercise #01: Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Experiments

01 Feb - Lab On Bernoulli Trials And Binomial Experiments
08 Feb - Lab#01 Due

Lab Exercise #02: Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Experiments (continued)

08 Feb - Lab On Bernoulli Trials And Binomial Experiments Continued
15 Feb - Lab#02 Due

Lab Exercise #03: Normal Approximation for Binomial Distributions

15 Feb - Lab On Normal Approximation For Binomial Distributions
22 Feb - Lab#03 Due

Lab Exercise #04: Summaries and Histograms

22 Feb - Lab On Summaries And Histograms
01 Mar - Lab#04 Due

Lab Exercise #05: Sampling Distributions

Lab On Sampling Distributions 01 Mar
08 Mar - Lab#05 Due

Lab Exercise #06: The Central Limit Theorem

Lab On The Central Limit Theorem 08 Mar
15 Mar - Lab#06 Due

Lab Exercise #07: Fuel Economy

Lab On Fuel Economy 15 Mar
RegressionCribSheet.pdf : Interpreting the Data Desk Regression Report
29 Mar - Lab#07 Due

Spring Break: Week of 19 Mar

Lab Exercise #08: Olympic Long Jumps

Lab On Olympic Long Jumps 29 Mar
5 Apr - Lab#08 Due

Lab Exercise #A: Whence Data

Lab Whence Data 5 Apr
12 Apr - Lab#A Due

Lab Exercise #09: Confidence Intervals

Lab On Confidence Intervals 12 Apr
19 Apr - Lab#09 Due

Lab Exercise #10: Testing Hypotheses

Lab On Testing Hypotheses 19 Apr
26 Apr - Lab#10 Due

Lab Exercise #11: Race and Parole

Lab On Race And Parole 26 Apr
3 May - Lab#11 Due

Lab Exercise #12: Regression Inference Exercise

Lab On Regression Inference 3 May
4 May - Lab#12 Due
Due: 4 May 2007. Grace period until Noon Monday 7 May. You may turn in the assignment Sunday between 1:30 and 5:30 PM (during the regular hours of the Math Support Center) or to the Office of your lecturer Monday morning..
Helpful: RegressionCribSheet.pdf : Interpreting the Data Desk Regression Report

Other Fun and useful Stuff

How To Print To PDF
- -- and why you should want to!
- Information for both Mac and PC with pointers to free software to do the job.
Installing Activ Stats And Data Desk To Your Hard Drive A brief How To along with some further general notes for Mac users.
Also be sure to check out the Fun Stuff and Cool Tools
- e.g. http://swivel.com
  - Data and Graphs galore!
  - Post your own data
  - Use the on-line tools to create your own graphs from your data or the data of others.
- DataDeskHelper.dmg: DataDeskHelper for Mac OS X A small utility to simplify getting .dsk downloads to be properly recognized under Mac OS X. Download the Disk Image file and mount it. You can drag files onto the application in the disk image or copy the application to a place you can conveniently drag .dsk files onto it.
- On Intel Macs results from random number generation with the default random number generator Linear Congruential are useless. Instead, use ULTRA or Mother of All RNG from the pop-up menu near the bottom of the dialog.

End of topic
Skip to action links | Back to top

You are here:

→ CuMath171Info → LabExercises

to top