Chapter 8 Some special probability distributions

TEST Tuesday 1/22/08
HW due 1/18: 8.41, 8.42
HW due 1/17: 8.37, 8.38, 8.39
HW due 1/16: 8.27, 8.28, 8.30, 8.31

HW due 1/15: 8.24, 8.25
With apologies to our Harvard buddies, here is a summary of binomial distribution facts and methods:
http://www.stat.yale.edu/Courses/1997-98/101/binom.htm

HW due 1/14: 8.19, .20, .22, .23

You guys rocked today! Your questions and explanations were top notch. HW 1/10 Answer problem #11 fromt he worksheet in the blue book using all three of the methods: formula, binomial pdf, and binomial cdf. Show all work and include explanations that you can rely upon to remind you of these methods later in the semester. Be neat and write legibly. Use appropriate language.

HW 1/9 Answer the questions from the 12 days worksheet that have a binomial setting.

HW 1/8 Write up a study guide for the Binomial Probability section of Chapter 8 AND answer questions 8.1-8.4. Bring the "12 days" worksheet back so we can discuss it.

Check out the arbitrary (not random) stuff in the next blog!