Whats on the quizzes?
Each quiz covers the previous week’s lectures. • How can I practice for the quizzes? Do problems. The course schedule page gives problems with full solutions for the various sections of the text. • Do I have to learn Minitab? Doing so will make your life easier. You will be able to tackle all the suggested problems, even the ones with big data sets, and you will get practice at interpreting output, which you will have to do on the exams. • Will I be asked to describe how to do something in Minitab? No. • There’s a lot of stuff in the textbook that wasn’t mentioned in the lectures. Am I responsible for that on the exams? No, but see next question. • In the lectures, there are references to the text. Does that mean we need to know all about what is referred to? You don’t need to know all about those things, no, but you need to have some familiarity with what is being referred to. You might be asked about this material, but you will not need much detail. • How can I judge how I’m doing? T
