AP Statistics Syllabus
Course design
Students in AP statistics have already mastered most of the basic concepts covered in the course. The main focus is to develop a truly deep understanding of the concepts, and prerequisites for the different areas of analysis. Class time is filled with discussion on the how and why of the independent work students have done outside of class.
Texts: Yates,Daniel s.,David s Moore,and George P. McCabe. The practice of Statistics:
TI-83 Graphing calculator Enhanced. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999.
Bohan, James f. AP Statistics: preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination. New york: AMSCO School publications, 2006. (Students buy the newest copy every year)
Technology:
Every student is required to have a TI-83 or 84. The textbook is designed to be used with the graphing calculator and we take every opportunity to explore the capabilities of those programs
Course outline
TEXT AMSCO’S
Topic I
(~6 days)
Ch. 1- Exploring data Ch. 2 Exploring univariate data.
· Graphs: stemplots, dotplots,
histograms, boxplots
· Numerical summaries: mean,
Variance, standard deviation,
Range, interquartile range,
Effects of transformations
· Features: shape, center, spread,
Outliers
Ch. 2- The normal dist.
· Standard normal distribution,
z-scores
· Table and calculator
Computations
· TEST
Topic. II
(~9 days)
Ch. 3- Examining Relationships Ch. 3 Exploring bivariate Data
· Scatterplots
· Correlation
· Least-squares linear regression
Ch. 4- More on two variable data
· Transformations for regression
· Categorical data
· TEST
Topic III
(~6 days)
Ch. 5- Producing data Ch. 4 Planning a study
· Observational study, census, survey
· Simple, systematic, stratified,
And probability random
Samples
· Experimental design
· Simulation
· TEST
Topic IV
(~8 days)
Ch. 6-Probability Ch. 5 anticipating patterns
· Sample spaces, events, outcomes
· Sum and product formulas
· Disjoint and independent events
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Ch. 7- Random variables
· Discrete random variables
· Continuous random variables
· Mean and variance
· Mean and variance for trans-
Formations, sums, and differences
Ch. 8- The bi. and Geo. Dist.
· Geometric distribution
· Binomial distribution
· Means and variances
· Normal approximations for
Binomial distributions
· TEST
Topic V
(~6 days)
Ch. 9- Sampling dist. Ch. 6 Sampling dist.
· Sampling distributions for means
· Sampling dist. For proportions
· Central Limit Theorem
· TEST
Topic VI
(~9 days)
Ch. 10- Intro. To inference Ch. 7 Statistical inference
· Confidence intervals
· Hypothesis tests
· Power
Ch. 11- Inference for Dist.
· Confidence interval-one sample
· Confidence interval-two sample
· Hypothesis test for one mean,
Matched pairs samples
· Hypothesis test for two means
Ch. 12- Inference for Proportions
· Confidence interval-one proportion
· Confidence interval-two proportions
· Hypothesis test-one proportion
· Hypothesis test-two proportions
Ch. 13- Inference for tables:Chi-Square
· Chi-square distribution
· Goodness of fit
· Test for independence
· Test for homogeneity
Ch. 14- Inference for regression
· Confidence interval for slope
· Hypothesis test for slope and
Correlation
· TEST
Topic VII
(~15 days)
AP review problems Ch. 8 Interp. Comp. Printouts
· Computer printouts
· Review past open response
· Two day final exam
Taking the AP exam earns extra credit that will add 5 points to your test average.