Statistics Final Exam Review

STATISTICS SEMESTER ONE FINAL EXAM REVIEW

OLD FINAL EXAM

Careers as Statisticians

http://www.dwsimpson.com/salary.html

What is an Actuary?

An actuary is a business professional who analyzes the financial consequences of risk. Actuaries use mathematics, statistics and financial theory to study uncertain future events, especially those of concern to insurance and pension programs. They evaluate the likelihood of those events, design creative ways to reduce the likelihood and decrease the impact of adverse events that actually do occur.

Actuaries are an important part of the management team of the companies that employ them. Their work requires a combination of strong analytical skills, business knowledge and understanding of human behavior to design and manage programs that control risk.

SOA members work in life insurance, retirement systems, health benefit systems, financial and investment management and other emerging areas of practice. The majority of actuaries work within the insurance industry, although a growing number of actuaries work in other fields.

From:
http://www.soa.org/ 

Second Highest Rated Profession 2012

ACT Student Poster Scholarship Contest

ACT will kick off its annual high school student poster design contest on December 10, 2012. Contest entrants are asked to create and submit an original poster that encourages students to attend college and to take the ACT.

Participants must be U.S. high school 11th or 12th grade students who plan to attend a two-year or four-year college or university in the next two years.

Posters must be submitted online via ACT's website. Submissions will be accepted from December 10, 2012 through January 21, 2013. The winners will be announced on February 11, 2013.

• Contest information
• ACT information

Statistics Activity for 11/30/2012

• Open MLB Stats on P Drive
• Save As onto your drive [DO NOT WORK DIRECTLY FROM SOURCE FILE!!!!]
• Go to http://stattrek.com/statistics/random-number-generator.aspx or http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm
• Use this tool to generate a minimum of seven samples of size 30
• For each sample calculate the sample mean
• Save your data
• Report your sample means to me (or my designee)

Week of 11/26/2012

Monday

Honors Algebra 2

p. 477;32-45 all

Statistics

p. 287;1-30 all, 32-64 even

Tuesday

Honors Algebra 2

p. 483;38-51 all

Statistics

p. 300;1-14 all,15-24x3s

Wednesday/Thursday

Honors Algebra 2

p. 510;27-43 all

Statistics

p. 308;1-14 all, 15-27x3s

Friday

Honors Algebra 2

p. 513;7-18,33-38
TEST MONDAY

Statistics

p. 316;1-20 all

Week of 11/19/2012

We are back on track using the MannMathBlog!  I was endeavoring to migrate things to a different platform and upon feedback from students familiar with it, I have elected to stick with this format.  It is to your benefit to sign up for updates as they are made.

Keep away form people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Stats

Monday and Tuesday

Complete page 277;1-6 all
Learn to migrate data into Excel and manipulate data using statistical functions

Honors Algebra 2

Monday and Tuesday

Complete Rational Functions Activity
Work on "Stairs Pre-AP"

Informal Geometry

Monday

Chapter 8 Review Notes Part 1

Tuesday

Chapter 8 Review Assignment

Week of 10-1

Statistics:

Test Monday and work on projects rest of week

Honors Algebra 2

Monday:
Matrices

Rest of week finish projects