Class Times, Days, and Place: 9:00-9:50 MWF,  125 CHI
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Introduction to Probability and  Statistics   (12th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: W: 1:00pm-1:50pm, F:1:00pm-1:40pm (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_WIN2007/426.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 30 to 50 minutes. One lowest quiz score will be dropped and the remaining 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 by 2:00pm on Friday or the time and date specified in the Tentative Syllabus. It is your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus before the specified due date. 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 paper marker. 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,  but discussing and any cheating  are not allowed during the exam, otherwise a penalty of   score deduction from your  exam may be given. Your solution to each exam problem should be legible and describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. UO has specified the final exam time for this course. There is no way to change it and there is no make-up exams.

Attendance:  Attendance is mandatory. Your attendance will be checked randomly. 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 score deduction from your homework and quizzes may be given.
 
 

                                            Tentative Syllabus
                             (Updated on Jan. 2, 2007)
 

Date	Content Covered	Sections Covered	Homework Numbers and Question Numbers (QNS) (Note: Homework QNS are  changed very often)
1/8M	Sampling dist. of sample proportion, pre-req-exam	7.6;
1/10W	Large sample estimation, point estimation	8.1; 8.2; 8.3; 8.4
1/12F	Interval estimation	8.5	There is no homework this week. Review Chapter 4, Binormial  and normal distributions, and central limit theorem.
1/15M	Martin Luther King Holiday No Class
1/17W	Application examples of interval estimation	8.5
1/19F	Estimating difference of two  population means	8.6	The following homework is due on  1/19.  #(1) 7.39; 7.42; 7.43; 7.44; 7.45; 7.46;  7.64; 7.70
1/22M	Estimating difference of two  binomial proportions	8.7
1/24W	Chosing the sample size	8.9
1/26F	Quiz #1		The following homework is due on  1/26.  #(2) 8.11; 8.12; 8.13; 8.30; 8.31; 8.32; 8.33; 8.34;  8.35; 8.36; 8.37
1/29M	Test of hypothesis	9.1; 9.2;
1/31W	Large sample test of  population mean	9.3
2/2F	Application examples of test of population mean	9.3	The following homework is due on  2/2.  #(3) 8.41; 8.42; 8.43; 8.44; 8.45; 8.56; 8.57; 8.68;  8.74; 8.76; 8.77;
2/5M	Test of hypothesis of  difference of two population means	9.4
2/7W	Test of hypothesis for a  binomial proportion	9.5
2/9F	Test of hypothesis of difference  between two binomial proportions	9.6	The following homework is due on  2/9.  #(4) 8.53; 8.54; 8.58; 8.59; 8.69; 8.73; 8.75; 8.78; 8.79;  9.10; 9.11; 9.21; 9.23
2/12M	Quiz #2 Inference from small samples  t-distribution	10.1;10.2
2/14W	Small sample inference for  a population mean	10.3
2/16F	Small sample inference for  difference of two population means	10.4	The following homework is due on  2/16.  #(5) 9.24; 9.25; 9.28; 9.34; 9.35; 9.36; 9.37; 9.38; 9.45;  9.46; 9.47
2/19M	The analysis of variance	11.1; 11.2;11.3
2/21W	Midterm Exam
2/23F	One-way classification, ANOVA for a complete random design	11.4;	The following homework is due on 2/23.  #(6) 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.24; 10.25; 10.26; 10.27; 10.28; 10.30; 10.32;
2/26M	Testing the equality of the treatment  means,CI for treatment means	11.4
2/28W	k sample data	11.5
3/2F	Quiz #3		The following homework is due on  3/2.  #(7) 11.1; 11.2; 11.3; 11.4; 11.10; 11.11
3/5M	application examples of k sample data	11.5
3/7W	Contingency tables	14.1-14.3
3/9F	application examples of  contingency table	14.4	The following homework is due on  3/9.  #(8) 11.12; 11.14; 11.16; 11.17; 11.18
3/12M	application examples of  contingency table	14.4
3/14W	Review
3/16F	No lecture		The following homework is due before  12:00pm,  March 14th. #(9)14.2,14.5,14.6,14.7,14.8
Office Hours after March 16th: 2:00pm-3:00pm , March 20th
Final Exam :  10:15am -- 12:15pm Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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