WORTH: 20% of class mark
FORMAT: There will be 10 questions on your midterm exam, worth 10% each. Some will be calculations, some will be short answers.
DATE: February 17, 2017. The exam will begin at 09:00 sharp and will end at 10:30, so you will lose time if you are late.
RETURN: I will have these marked to return in class on March 3, 2017.
DETAILS:
- You will have 90 minutes to complete the exam, no longer.
- You may use a writing instrument and a scientific calculator.
- You may not use your phone.
- Some questions will be easy and some questions will be difficult.
- Some questions will be applied and some questions will be theoretical.
- You should be prepared to cover the following material:
- Calculating the mean, standard deviation, geometric mean, and geometric standard deviation of a sample.
- The difference between the sample mean and the population mean.
- What to do with samples under the Limit of Detection.
- Properties of the perfect normal and log-normal distributions.
- Methods for visualizing, assessing, and quantifying the association between a continuous dependent variable and dichotomous, categorical, and continuous independent variables.
- Interpreting the results of linear regression and calculating confidence intervals.
- The meaning of statistical significance.
- Hypothesizing about the relationship between indoor radon concentrations and a variable that is not currently part of the dataset.
- You will do well on this midterm if you clearly understand the material that we have covered in class. Please ensure that you go over uncertainties with me or Angela before the exam.
