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revised 1 Aug 2012

Review Guide for MATH200, Statistics

Copyright © 2007–2013 by Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems

Summary: Even if you’ve been doing all the work and keeping up with the course, the mass of material you need to know for the final can be overwhelming. This page helps you identify what’s most important in preparing for the exam.

Ideally, you look at the end of each chapter and follow these steps:

Bear in mind that we skipped some parts of the book. Refer back to your Schedule and Assignments sheet.

Realistically, MATH200 is not your only course (or not your only life activity, anyway), and you want some help in identifying what’s most essential. That’s what you’ll find below. The Chapter Guides and other handouts on the class Web page can help you to.

Something might be asked on the exam that was covered in the course but isn’t in the list below, but if so it won’t count a huge number of points. If you have mastered all the concepts in this list — and that means you can solve problems that use these concepts — you should earn a high score on the final exam.

Chapter 1: Data Collection

Review is on pages 56–57. Most important concepts:

Chapter 2: Graphical Summaries of Data

Review is on pages 109–110. Most important concepts:

Chapter 3: Numerical Summaries of Data

Review is on pages 172–173. Most important concepts:

Chapter 4: Correlation & Regression

Review is on pages 215–216, but the textbook chapter was replaced by a printed handout. Most important concepts:

Chapter 5: Probability (Sec 5.1–5.3 only)

Review is on pages 285–286. Most important concepts:

Chapter 6: Discrete Random Variables

Review is on pages 319–320. Most important concepts:

Chapter 7: Normal Distribution

Review is on pages 369–370. Most important concepts:

Chapter 8: Sampling Distributions

Review is on page 401. Most important concepts:

Chapter 9: Estimating μ and p

Review is on pages 449–450. Most important concepts:

Chapter 10: Hypothesis Tests of μ and p

Review is on pages 503–504, but the textbook chapter was replaced by a printed handout. Most important concepts:

Chapter 11: Inferences on Two Samples

Review is on pages 552–553. Most important concepts:

Chapter 12: χ² Tests (Sec 12.1–12.2 only)

Review is on pages 606–607. Most important concepts:


This page is used in instruction at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York; it’s not an official statement of the College. Please visit www.tc3.edu/instruct/sbrown/ to report errors or ask to copy it.

For updates and new info, go to http://www.tc3.edu/instruct/sbrown/stat/