MA121: Introduction to Statistics

Read sections 3, 4, 6, and 7 from chapter 7. Also, complete the questions at the end of each section. Section 3 briefly talks about the history of both the normal distribution and the central limit theorem, and this section also discusses the relation of normal distributions to errors. Section 4 discusses ways of computing the areas under the normal curve. Section 6 discusses the standard normal distribution and the related areas under the standard normal curve. Regarding the calculation of areas, Section 6 also discusses how to translate from non-standard normal to standard normal. Section 7 addresses how to compute (cumulative) binomial probabilities by using normal approximations.