Math 141: Readings for November 19, 2025

Reading

Before coming to lecture today, please read the following material:

• MD Appendix B: Sections B.2, B.3, B.4

Homework Assignment

After you’ve completed the reading, but before coming to class, please complete the following homework assignment. Bring your responses to this assignment (handwritten or typed) to class on a piece of paper:

• For inference on one proportion, provide a detailed and accessible guide to doing statistical inference. Before writing out each step, make sure to motivate the task at hand (doing inference for a proportion). Make sure to write out all of the steps in the inference process for both the simulation-based method and theory-based method and describe when you might want to use one over the other.