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Syllabus

Instructor & TAs

Instructors

Jonathan Taylor

• Office: Sequoia Hall #137
• Phone: 723-9230,
• Email
• Office hours: Th 1:00-3:00

Lucy Xia

• Office: Sequoia Hall #244
• Phone: 497-8146
• Email
• Office hours: Friday 10:30-12:30

Teaching Assistants

Cyrus DiCiccio

• Email
• Office hours : Tuesday 11:00-1:00 in Sequoia Hall 105

Jing Miao

• Email
• Office hours : Wednesday 3:00-5:00 in 420-245

Paulo Orenstein

• Email
• Office hours : Monday 10:30-12:30 in Sequoia Hall 220

Jun Yan

• Email
• Office hours : Monday 4:30-6:30 in Sequoia Hall 220

Email list

The course has an email list that reaches all TAs as well as the professors: [email protected].

As a general rule, you should send course related to this email list.

Office hours

As a general rule, we ask students NOT to complete the assignments during TAs' in office hours. This will be easier if students do not use laptops while in TAs' office hours.

Schedule & Location

M-Th 9:30-10:20, 420-040. F 9:30-10:20, 420-040; 11:30-12:20, Sequoia 200; 3:30-4:20, Sequoia 200.

Textbook

Statistics, Freedman, Pisani & Purves. Required

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with elementary algebraic notation at the high school level is assumed, but there is no calculus prerequisite.

Course organization

• There will be four lectures per week (M-Th 9:30-10:20).

• There will be quizzes every two weeks held on Wednesdays.

• Friday's session (F 9:30-10:20, 11:30-12:20, 3:30-4:20) will be devoted to problem sessions held by the TAs. There are three sessions, with the same material; feel free to attend any one of them.

• All relevant class information, such as homework assignments, solutions, and organizational matters, will be posted on the coursework web page.

Evaluation

• weekly homework: 20%
• 5 quizzes: 40%
• final exam: 40%

Homework

• There will be weekly homework assignments, run through our online system

• You may discuss homework problems with other students and with TAs in office hours, but you have to prepare the solutions yourself.

• As a general rule, we ask students NOT to complete the assignments during TAs' in office hours. This will be easier if students do not use laptops while in TAs' office hours.

• You must show your work (where necessary) for full credit (on quizzes as well).

Homework schedule

The homeworks will all follow the same schedule every week: due Fridays and Tuesdays.

Final Exam

According to the exam schedule our exam is to be held on Saturday June 4, at 8:30 AM.

Practice Quizzes

• Practice Quiz 1, (solution).

• Practice Quiz 2, (solution).

• Practice Quiz 3, (solution).

• Practice Quiz 4, (solution).

• Practice Quiz 5, (solution).

Notes

Week 1

• Chapter 3: Graphical Summaries & Histogram, html of all slides on one webpage.

• Chapter 4: Average, SD and Numeric Summaries, html

• Chapter 5: Normal distribution for data, html

• Exercises, html

Week 2

• Chapters 1 and 2: Experiments, html

• Chapter 6: Measurement, html

• Chapters 8 and 9: Correlation, html

• Exercises, html

Week 3

• Chapters 10-12: Regression, html
• Chapter 13: Probability, html
• Exercises, html

Week 4

• Chapter 15: Binomial formula, html
• Exercises, html

Week 5

• Monty Hall, html
• Chapters 16-17: Chance variability, html
• Chapters 18: Probability Histogram, html
• Exercises, html

Week 6

• Chapters 19-20: Sample surveys, html
• Chapter 21: Accuracy of percentages, html
• Exercises, html

Week 7

• Chapter 23: Accuracy of averages, html
• Chapter 24: Gauss model, html
• Chapter 26: Hypothesis tests, html
• Exercises, html

Week 8

• Chapter 26: Hypothesis tests, html
• Chapter 27: Two sample tests, html
• Exercises, html

Week 9

• Chapter 28: Chi-squared tests, html
• Regression revisited, html
• Exercises, html

Week 10

• Review I, html
• Review II, html

Tables

• Symmetric normal table
• Tail normal table
• Tail T table
• Tail Chisquared table