MTH 1250
Statistics for Pharmacy and Allied Health
Fall 2009

Instructor: Dr. David Rosenthal
Office: SJH 334C
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:00 PM, 6:45-7:45 PM (in SJH 334C)

Thursday 2:00-3:00 PM (in the Math Learning Center)
Phone: (718) 990-2338
Email: rosenthd@stjohns.edu

Download Course Outline here: [pdf]


** Free tutoring in the Math Learning Center: SJH 203 (M-R 10:00-4:00, F 10:00-3:00) **

Test Dates Quizzes

Test #1:  October 8, 2009
Quiz #1:  September 17, 2009
 Quiz #4:  Take home due Dec. 1st
Test #2:  November 10, 2009
Quiz #2:  October 1, 2009
Quiz #5:  December 1, 2009
Final Exam:  TBA
Quiz #3:  October 27, 2009
 Quiz #6:  TBA




Worksheets
Worksheet #1 (09/08/09) [pdf]
Practice Test #2 [pdf]
Worksheet #2 (09/24/09) [pdf]
Worksheet #4 (11/17/09) [pdf]
Practice Test #1 [pdf]
Worksheet #5 (11/24/09) [pdf]
Worksheet #3 (10/15/09) [pdf]



Fun Links

1.  The Monty Hall Problem

PLAY ONLINE!
·  Below is a link to an article that appeared in The New York Times on April 8, 2008 relating The Monty Hall Problem to experiments in psychology.

And Behind Door #1, A Fatal Flaw


·  For more on The Monty Hall Problem, see the article below (written by my cousin Jeffrey Rosenthal).

Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl




2.  The Binomial Distribution

·  Useful link for understanding the Binomial Distribution and its relationship to the Normal Curve.
·  Play "Quincunx," created by Sir Francis Galton, for a visual demonstration of how the Normal Curve approximates the Binomial Distribution. Here is a photo of an actual Galton Board.





Homework Problems

Textbook: Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 13th edition, by Mendenhall, Beaver and Beaver

As the famous mathematician Paul Halmos once said:

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."
Homework #1 [pdf]
Chapter 8
 Chapter 12
Homework #2 [pdf]
Section 8.5:  23, 25, 27, 31, 32, 35
Section 12.4:  8(a), 8(b)
Homework #3 [pdf]
Section 8.6:  42, 44
Homework #4 [pdf]
Section 8.7:  55
Homework #5 [pdf]
Section 8.9:  72, 75
Chapter 5
Chapter 9
Section 5.2:  3, 4, 8, 15, 22, 23, 26
Section 9.3:  10, 13
Section 5.4:  52, 55
Section 9.4:  18, 21
Chapter 6
Section 9.5:  37
Section 6.3:  5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 32
Section 9.6:  47
Section 6.4:  47, 49, 50
Chapter 10
Chapter 7
Section 10.3:  5, 11
Section 7.5:  19, 20, 30, 31
Section 10.4:  24
Section 7.6:  43, 45




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