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Math 243 Statistics I
Clackamas Community College

Text: Mind on Statistics, 4th edition, Utts and Heckard (Cengage Learning), or
Introductory Statistics, 4th edition, Utts and Heckard (custom CCC edition of Mind on Statistics)

Testing for Outliers Using the IQR
Excel Assignment 2


Excel Workbooks Video Links
Introduction to Excel
(Download this to see all the examples and exercises that go along with the videos)
Intro to Excel 2010 Sorting, copying, pasting
Intro to Excel 2007 Resizing rows, columns, and cells
Intro to Excel on a Mac Inserting or deleting rows, columns, and cells
Intro to Spreadsheets on openoffice.org Working with text boxes
Troubleshooting: tabs cannot be seen Introduction to calculations with formulas
Number and text formats Copying and pasting formulas
Cell formats Absolute and relative cell references in formulas
Excel Assignment 1
1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.3
Bar graphs, part 1 (the basics) Introduction to Excel functions
Bar graphs, part 2 (categories and data are not adjacent) Relative frequencies for one variable
Bar graphs, part 3 (multi-bar graphs for two-way tables) Relative frequencies for two-way tables
Excel Assignment 2
Sections 2.4-2.7
Finding a five-number summary Histograms Using the Frequency Function
Testing for outliers using the IQR Optional: Installing the Data Analysis ToolPak (Windows only)
Standard deviation and z-scores Optional: Creating a basic histogram using the Data Analysis ToolPak (Windows only)
Calculating the standard deviation Optional: Creating a custom histogram using the Data Analysis ToolPak (Windows only)
Excel Assignment 3
Sections 8.1-8.3
Expected value (mean) of a random variable Histogram of a random variable
Variance and standard deviation of a random variable Checking the empirical rule for a random variable
Excel Assignment 4
Sections 8.4, 8.6
Finding basic binomial probabilities Finding two-step binomial probabilities
Normal probabilities using NORMSDIST Normal probabilities using NORMSINV
Excel Assignment 5
Sections 9.4, 9.6
Sampling distribution of  p̂ (p-hat) Sampling distribution of  x̄ (x-bar)