ENM 500 The Final Exam Adventures in Statistics fall 2007 The ENM 500 chorus singing praise for the final exam

Vital Statistics When: Tuesday, December 11 th Campus Section 1: 10:10 am to 12:00 noon Internet Section 1: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Campus & internet: Section 2: 4:30 pm - 6:20 pm other times by arrangement on-campus only Dec 11 th is the last day to take final Open book – notes, presentations, journal articles Computers and calculators allowed you will need to compute statistics (mean, variances, and other good things) campus students – bring laptops Take the exam on campus or via the internet exam will be ed to internet participants 5 to 10 minutes before the start of class acknowledge receipt call or if you have questions operators will be standing by the phones to take your calls

More Vital Statistics There will be several comparable versions of the exam Five questions not necessarily equally weighted 110 minutes to complete the exam 22 minutes per question (much too much time) Questions will have several responses Covers chapters 6 – 13 Will you tell us what the 5 questions are?

The Five Vital Problems 1. A descriptive statistics-estimation problem Chapters 6 and 7 2. A confidence interval problem Chapter 8 3. A hypothesis testing problem Chapters 9 and A regression problem Chapters 11 and An ANOVA problem Chapter 13 – fill in the blanks – multiple choice

Exam Management At the conclusion of the exam: campus students will turn in the exam along with their work internet students complete and the attached solution table additional time allotted to (1) fax your work or (2) scan or enter and your work Part (a)Part (b)Part (c)Part (d)Part (e)

Midterm Registration Need to register for the exam by noon Friday December 7 th Register by completing the on-line form at the following course Webpage: Indicate time and place (internet address or regular campus class) Identify any special circumstances Competing to be first to register for the ENM 500 final exam

A Most Excellent Practice Final Exam Available from the course Website today Several exceptional problems each one designed to maximize the learning process Solutions will be provided and discussed during the November 29 th (final review) class You should work these problems on your own before November 29 th Gosh, this practice final is even better than the practice midterm and that was the best test ever.

Final Exam Warm-up Questions 1. Collect all the available data on global warming and develop the most comprehensive set of descriptive statistics on global warming the world has ever known. 2. Establish 99% confidence intervals on all relevant population parameters including those as yet undetermined. 3. Formulate, test, and reject the null hypothesis of no global warming in favor of the alternate hypothesis of global warming. Control your error rates at the.5% level. 4. Develop a multiple regression model that will predict the effects of global warming on every country in the world. 5. Base a documentary film on your statistical analysis that will surely win an Oscar. You may wish to title this film A Not So Convenient Realty 6. Be sure to also win a Noble Peace Prize for your instructor to whom you owe everything.

Fine print: Thanksgiving break starts tomorrow. Finer print: Chapter 11 homework is due tomorrow I cannot believe it! My statistics class is cancelled for Thursday. But you have a 5- day weekend to work the practice exam you turkey.