MATH 155 Final Review (Section 1.1 - 9.4, 13.1 - 13.

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1. Know the denition of statistics. (1.1)

2. Know the dierence between statistical signicance and practical signicance. (1.2)
3. Know the types of data and ways of collecting this data. (1.3 - 1.4)
4. Be able to describe statistical thinking, bias, and measurement error. (1.6)
5. Know how to construct a frequency distribution table and the denition of its
components. (2.2)
6. Know how to construct bar graphs, pareto chart, pie chart, stem-and-leaf display,
histogram, frequency polygon, ogive and dotplot and the denition and how to nd
scatterplot and time-series graph. (2.3)
7. Know how to interpret summation notation.
8. Know the denition of and how to nd the mean, median, mode, range, variance
and standard deviation. (3.2-3.3)
9. Know how the Empirical rule and the Chebyshevs rule apply to sets of data. (3.3)
10. Know how to determine interquartile range (IQR) and know how construct a
boxplot & a modied boxplot and determine possible outliers. (3.4)
11. Know the denition of experiment, sample space, event. (4.2)
12. Know how to determine the probability of an event and know the rule for determining the number of outcomes using the combinations rule. (4.3, 4.6)
13. Know the rule of complements. (4.3)
14. Know the additive rule of probability and how to determine if two events are
mutually exclusive. (4.3)

15. Know how to nd the conditional probability of an event given another event
occurring. (4.4, 4.5)
16. Know the multiplicative rule and how to determine if two events are independent.
(4.4, 4.5)
17. Know how to determine the number of outcomes using the fundamental counting
principle, permutation rule and the combinations rule. (4.6)
18. Know the denition of discrete and continuous random variable, how to dierentiate
between them and the denition of a probability distribution for a random variable.
(5.2)
19. Know how to nd the mean, variance, standard deviation for a random variable.
(5.2)
20. Know the characteristics of a binomial random variable and know the binomial
probability distribution. (5.3)
21. Know how to nd the mean, variance and standard deviation of a binomial random
variable and how to use a binomial table to determine probability. (5.4)
22. Know the denition of a standard normal distribution and how we use it with the
table to nd the probabilities for normal random variables. (6.2 - 6.5)
23. Know how to construct a condence interval for a population mean when is
known & when is unknown. (7.3)
24. Know how to construct a condence interval for a population proportion. (7.2)
25. Know how to determine sample size necessary for a population mean & population
proportion, 100(1 )% condence interval. (7.2, 7.3)
26. Know the elements of an hypothesis test. (8.2)
28. Know the conditions necessary to conduct test of hypothesis for population mean
& population proportion using: a) Critical values/rejection region b) p-value (8.3 - 8.4)
29. Know when & how to use sign test. (13.2)

30. Know how to compare two population means from independent samples and paired
dierence experiments. (9.3 - 9.4)
31. Know when & how to use the Wilcoxon rank sum test & Wilcoxon signed rank
test. (13.3 - 13.4)