Class Times, Days, and Place: 12:00-12:50 MWF,  205 DEA
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Introduction to Probability and  Statistics   (12th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours:  W:10:50-11:30am and F:10:50-11:30am (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@uoregon.edu
Web URL: http://uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/425_WIN2008/425.html

Grading Policy

Your course grade is the sum of  following performance scores: The homeworks will count as 15% of the course grade; The in-class quizzes  will  count as 20%; The midterm will count as 15%;  and the final exam will count as 50%.

Quizzes:   During the term,  there are several  in-class quizzes. The day of a quiz is not completely fixed. The duration of a quiz ranges from 20 to 50 minutes. The quiz scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. Generally there is no make-up quiz.

Homework:  Homework questions and due date are posted in the following Tentative Syllabus of this web page which will be updated very often. Homework is due weekly before class of each Friday or the date specified in the Tentative Syllabus. It is your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus each Thursday afternoon or the date before the specified due date in the Tentative Syllabus. Late handing in homework will not be accepted.   One lowest homework score will be dropped and the remaining homework scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. You can discuss with other students while working on your homework problems, but copying other students' answers is not allowed, otherwise a penalty of  score deduction may be given. Your solution to each homework problem should be legible and should describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores.  Please use 8.5" by 11" sheets to do your homework and don't forget to write down your first name, middle name and last name (In order to protect your rights to confidentiality of your papers, don't write down your student ID number on homework paper.) on each page. Your homework will be returned  in class. Remaining unpicked homeworks will be delivered again in class.  Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.

Tests:  For this course,  there are a midterm and a final exam. For each exam (including quizzes), you can bring  a 8.5" by 11" sheet with formulae or useful notes for you.  Your solution to each exam problem should be legible and describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. If an exam question is a multiple choice question, clearly mark one and only one choice for each question.   All students take the final exam at the UO specified time. Generally there is no make-up quiz or exam except for serious illness with valid doctor's statement or other special excuse with valid document.

                                           Tentative Syllabus
                          (Updated on Feb. 22th, 2008)
 

Week	Topics covered or remarks	Sections Covered	Homework Question Numbers (HQN) and the due date (Note:  HQN may be updateded )
Week 1 1/7-1/11	pre-req-exam on (1/7), data analysis, population, sample,  relative frequency histogram, sample mean, sample variance, data range, Tchebysheff's theorem	1.1; 1.5,2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4,	First week has no homework
Week 2 1/14-1/18	Events, sample space, simple event,  calculating event probabilities, and counting rules,  mn rule, permutation counting rule; combination counting rule, application examples	4.1; 4.2; 4.3, 4.4	Homework #(1) 1.19(a,b,c,d); 2.10; 2.16; 2.22; 2.31. due on 1/18
Week 3  1/21-1/25	No Class on Martin Luther King Jr. holiday (1/21) Event relations, complement, conditional probability, independence,  multiplicative rule, total probability formula Bayes' rule	4.5, 4.6, 4.7	Homework #(2) 4.1; 4.2; 4.5; 4.7; 4.26; 4.27; 4.31;  4.34; 4.35; 4.36; due on 1/25
Week 4 1/28-2/1	Bayes' rule and application examples, conditional prob. formulae and  application examples,   quiz #1 on Jan 30th, 2008	4.7	Homework #(3) 4.42; 4.43; 4.54; 4.55; 4.58; 4.60; 4.63; 4.109; 4.113 due on 2/1
Week 5 2/4-2/8	Discrete random variable and their probability distribution, Binomial distribution, application examples of Binomial distribution, quiz # 2 on  Feb 8, 2008	4.8, 5.1, 5.2	Homework #(4) 4.62; 4.65; 4.66; 4.69; 4.70; 4.72; 4.73, 4.74; due on 2/8
Week 6 2/11-2/15	Continuous random variables, Normal distribution, Find event probabilities of standard normal distribution by using table, Midterm Review	6.1; 6.2; 6.3	Homework #(5) 4.77; 4.78;   4.83; 4.86;  4.87; 4.89; 4.90; 4.119; 4.138(a)(b); due on 2/15
Week 7 2/18-2/22	Midterm Exam on Monday (2/18/2008, Cover until section 5.1, inclusive) Find event probabilities of general normal distribution by using table, Normal approximation to binomial distribution	6.3	Homework #(6)4.108; 5.8; 5.11;  5.23; 5.24; 5.26; 5.27;  due on 2/22
Week 8 2/25-2/29	Normal approximation to binomial distribution and applications,Sample distribution,central limit theorem, sample distribution of the sample mean quiz # 3 on Feb 27th.	6.4,7.3, 7.4, 7.5	Homework #(7)6.4; 6.7;  6.8; 6.10; 6.12; 6.13; 6.14; 6.15; 6.18 due on 2/29
Week 9 3/3-3/7	central limit theorem, sample distribution of the sample mean, and applications, Quiz # 4 on March 5th.	7.5	Homework #(8) 6.19;  6.22; 6.23; 6.31; 6.49; 6.50; 6.51; 6.60; 6.69   due on 3/7
Week 10 3/10-3/14	Sampling distribution  of sample proportion, review	7.6	Homework #(9) 6.76; 6.77; 7.20; 7.24;  7.28; 7.29; 7.30;7.31; 7.32   due on 3/14
Office Hours after March 14th, 2008: 11:00-12:00, Monday, March 17th, 2008   Final Exam :  Starting at 10:15am, Tuesday,  March 18th, 2008

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