STA 218 S 2007 Midterm Test
Thursday, March 1st at 11:10 am in Kaneff 137
- Time: Thursday, March 1st at 11:10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: Kaneff 137
- Aids Allowed: Calculator and a single 8.5 by 11 two-sided
formula sheet. You may write anything you like on the formula sheet. A
table of the standard normal distribution will be supplied.
- Coverage: Quiz Assignments 1-5, plus the midterm assignment. Also see the associated lecture material. Note that the modterm assignment is not comprehensive; it's just a few questions about the sampling distribution of the sample proportion.
When you are preparing for the midterm, above all be guided by the
homework assignments. They tell you exactly what pages in the text to read
and explicitly list the concepts for which you are responsible. The assigned
problems are examples of what you should be able to do.
You are also responsible for everything that happens in lecture, provided
there's a homework problem on it. You can tell what problems I've made up,
because they are not from the text.
The midterm will be much like the quizzes, only longer. The problems will
be like the homework problems. I will make it up and I will mark it.
To prepare for the quiz, I suggest that you
- Go over the assigned reading in the text, treating each example from
the text as a problem with full solution. Try to solve it yourself, and
then look at the answer only when you are done, or if you are really
stuck.
- Do the same thing with all the examples from lecture.
- Re-do all the homework problems.
If you are running out of time, step 3 is probably the most important.