MATH 102
COURSE INFORMATION

TEXT
GRADES
MISSED EXAMS
FINAL PROJECT
OFFICE HOURS
ASSIGNMENTS
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
GOALS
LECTURE SCHEDULE/NOTES
LINKS

TEXT:
The Basic Practice of Statistics, 4^th ed., Moore and McCabe
StatsPortal

GRADES:
Your grade will be based on a weighted average of the various graded assignments in the course. The distribution of these weights is given below:

3 Hour Exams (20% each)
1 Final Project (25%)
Assignments and Quizzes (15%)

MISSED EXAMS:
Make-up exams will be given only for valid and verifiable excuses. It is important to notify me before an exam that you must miss.

FINAL PROJECT DEADLINE: Wednesday, May 7, 9:00 AM
Project Stages

• Stage 1
  • Submit to me by January 23, in writing, the names of people you plan to work with on the project for the course.
• Stage 2
  • Project Formulation, 30 January 2008
• Stage 3
  • Experimental Design, 29 February 2008
• Stage 4
  • Data Collection, 17 April 2008
• Stage 5
  • Written Report, 1 May 2008, 4:00pm
  • Oral Report, 7 May 2008, 9:00am

OFFICE HOURS:
My Schedule

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9-10, 3-4	9:30-Noon,1:30-4	8-10	By Appointment	9-10

ASSIGNMENTS:
Assignments will be made at the beginning of each week. These problems will be collected, graded, and discussed daily.  An assignment will not be collected the class period before an exam. I will drop the 5 lowest scores on assignments. All late papers are graded at half credit.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
I encourage students to exchange ideas and discuss problems. However, for homework to be turned in, it will be considered plagiarism if a student copies the work of another. On exams the giving or receiving of aid is not permitted. Any violation of the Code of Academic Integrity should be reported to the instructor who will take appropriate disciplinary action and/or inform the Judicial Board of the case. In either case, the Dean's office will be notified of the violation. (THE SCOT'S KEY, pp. 52-58)

GOALS:
1) To learn to understand and use statistics in the study of problems for which these tools can be used.
2) To study the underlying foundations of statistics in order to understand uses and misuses of statistics.
3) To learn what hypothesis testing tells us.
4) To study the ideas of correlation and regression.

LECTURE SCHEDULE AND NOTES

DATE	TOPIC	DATE	TOPIC
January 14	Chapter 1	March 3
16	Chapter 2	5	Review
18		7	EXAM II
			Formulas
21	Chapter 3	24	Chapter 14
23	Chapter 4	26	Chapter 15
25		28
28	Chapter 5	31	Chapter 16
30		April 2
February 1	Chapter 6	4	Chapter 18
4	Review (Chapter 7)	7	Chapter 19
6	Exam 1	9
8	Chapter 8	11	Chapter 20
11	Chapter 9	14	Chapter 21
13		16	Review
15	Chapter 10	18	EXAM III (solutions)
18		21	Chapter 23
20	Chapter 11	23
22	Chapter 12	25	Chapter 24
25	Chapter 13	28	Chapter 25
27		30
29		May 2	Evaluation

Links

2002 New York Times - Discusses Observational Studies versus Controlled Experiments

What is a survey?

2004 NY Times - 2005 Offbeat News - Use of Placebos

Hypothesis Testing

StatCrunch

Statistics: Making Sense of Data - online text and resources

Hyperstat Online Textbook

Sampling Distribution Applets Applet 1 Applet 2

Project Rubric

p-value article abstract