If you are writing the final exam for the classroom lecture sections this Friday, one of the profs said that the four long answer questions will be from these sections:

 

1. Simple Linear Regression Be sure to study Lesson 2: Regression and Correlation in my book and go through question 1 and 5 especially for good examples.  They also have a linear regression long answer question on one of the sample exams they gave you.  I doubt you will have to compute r, the correlation coefficient by hand.

 

2. Probability where you will be listing a sample space and also coming up with the distribution of X which counts something in the Sample Space.  Look at my questions 3 and 4 for good examples of the question they intend to ask.  They also have examples of this on your sample exams.

 

3 and 4 are both going to be Hypothesis Testing.  One will be about the mean (may use z or t, so be ready to tell which one) and one will be about the proportion.  So be sure to study Lessons 9 and 11 thoroughly.  It may even be matched pairs, so study Lesson 10, too.  One prof apparently never even taught, the pooled two-sample t test in class, so I think it is unlikely that we will be on the exam at all, but certainly not on the long answer.  Be ready to interpret a P-value and a confidence interval if you want full marks.

 

Sorry, for those of you in distance, I have no info about what your exam will be like.