STAT 303, 503-504, Spring 1996
Prof. H. Joseph Newton

Content of Exam 2

1. Notes, Text, Review Session:
   • Notes: Week 4.2 through Week 9
   • Text: Sections 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 (unstarred sections), 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1 (unstarred sections, no contrasts or multiple comparisons).
   • Review Session: Wednesday, 5:30pm, 104 Halbouty (next to Blocker).
2. Topics:
   1. Transformed statistics
   2. Sampling distributions
   3. Properties of Z, t, chi-square, and F curves
   4. Critical values and percentiles
   5. The 11 cases for confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses
   6. Central limit theorem
   7. Properties of point estimators (unbiased, minimum variance)
   8. Point estimators for the 11 situations, including pooled estimates of variance and common proportions.
   9. Interpreting confidence intervals
   10. The algebra to get confidence intervals
   11. Testing hypotheses:
       • Null and alternative hypotheses
       • Type I and Type II errors
       • p-values
       • Interpreting Stataquest output
   12. One-Way ANOVA:
       • Null and alternative hypotheses
       • Between and within sample variation
       • Stataquest output