Math 426/526
(35880/35890)

Class Times, Days, and Place: 12:00-12:50 MWF,  105Fenton
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Introduction to Probability and  Statistics   (12th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours:  W:2:00-2:50pm and F:2:00-2:50pm (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@uoregon.edu
Web URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/426_SPR2006/426.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 also count as 15%; The midterm will count as 20% 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. Quiz scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. 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 3:00pm 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 ID number on homework paper.) on each page. Your homework will be returned in the return boxes by your grader. Please find your return box and pick up your homeworks promptly.  Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.

Exam:  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 you should describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. The times of the midterm and final exams are specified and can't be changed. There is no make-up exams.

Attendance:  Attendance is mandatory.  You are responsible for all the announcements, changes, course information, and topics that I cover in class. If you miss a substantial number of lectures  without discussing the matter with me and without a valid excuse, a penalty of  score deduction of homeworks and quizzes  may be given according to number of lectures missed.
 
 

                                           Tentative Syllabus
                          (Updated on April 2, 2006)
 
Week
Topics covered or remarks
Sections Covered 
Homework Question Numbers (HQN) and the due date (Note:  HQN may be updateded ) 
 Week 1
 4/3-4/7
pre-req-exam on (4/3)
review Binomial dist.
sampling dist. of sample proportion,
Interval estimation
5.2;6.4; 7.1-7.6
First week has no homework, review 425/525
Week 2 4/10-4/14
Application examples of interval estimation
Estimation of difference of two population means
Estimation of  difference of  two binomial proportions,
8.1-8.7
Homework #(1) 7.39; 7.40; 7.43; 7.44; 7.64; 7.70 due on 4/14/06
Week 3  4/17-4/21
Estimation of  difference of  two binomial proportions,
Choosing the sample size
8.7-8.9
Homework #(2) 8.11; 8.12; 8.13; 8.14; 8.15; 8.17; 8.26; 8.30; 8.33; 8.34; 8.35; 8.36 due on 4/21/06
 Week 4 4/24-4/28
Test of hypothesis 
quiz #1 on  April  26
Large sample test of population mean
9.1-9.4
Homework #(3) 8.42; 8.43; 8.44; 8.45; 8.46; 8.47; 8.53; 8.54; 8.57; 8.58; 8.60  due on 4/28/06
 Week 5
5/1-5/5
Test of hypothesis for the difference of two population means,
Test of  hypothesis for the binomial proportion,
Test of hypothesis for the difference of  two binomial  proportions
9.4-9.6
Homework #(4) 8.69; 8.73; 8.74; 8.75; 8.78; 8.79; 9.6; 9.7; 9.9; 9.10; 9.11; 9.12; 9.14 due on 5/5/06
 Week 6
5/8-5/12
Quiz #2 on May 15th
Inference from small samples
t-distribution
samll  sample inference for a population mean
small sample inference for difference of two population means

10.1-10.4
Homework #(5) 9.15; 9.21; 9.22; 9.23; 9.24; 9.25; 9.27; 9.30; 9.33; 9.34; 9.35 due on 5/12/06
 Week 7
5/15-5/19
Midterm Exam on Monday (5/15/2006, Cover until section 9.5, inclusive)
The analysis of  variance
One-way classification,
ANOVA for a complete random design

11.1-11.5
Homework #(6) 9.45; 9.46; 9.47; 10.6; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 10.11; 10.13
due on 5/19/06
 Week 8
5/22-5/26
Testing the equality of the treatment means, CI for treatment means
k sample data
11.5
Homework #(7) 10.18; 10.19; 10.20; 10.21; 10.22; 10.24; 10.25(a)(b); 10.26(a)(b) due on 5/26/06
 Week 9
5/29-6/2
 No classes on May 29 (Memorial Holiday) and  no class on May 31st.
 Quiz # 3 on June 2nd

Homework #(8) 11.3; 11.6; 11.7; 11.8; 11.10; 11.11; 11.12; 11.13; 11.14  due on 6/2/06
 Week 10
6/5-6/9
application examples of k sample data
Contingency table
Review
14.4
Homework #(9) 11.4; 11.5; 11.9; 11.15; 11.16   due on 6/9/06
 


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 Final Exam :  Starting at 10:15am, MondayJune 12th, 2006



 
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