Math 426/526
(23784/23796)

Class Times, Days, and Place: 8:00-8:50 MWF,  209 DEA
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Introduction to Probability and  Statistics   (11th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: M:8:50-9:30am, Tue: 4:00pm-5:00pm;W:8:50am-9:30am; Thur 4:00pm-5:00pm; and F:8:50-9:30am (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Web URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/426_WIN2003/426.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 10%; The midterm will count as 15%;  and the final exam will count as 60%.

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. 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 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,  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.  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, I may refuse to accept homework from you, late or on time.
 
 

                                             Tentative Syllabus
                            (Updated on Dec 29, 2002)
 
Date Content Covered  Sections Covered 
Homework Numbers and Question Numbers (QNS)
(Note: Homework QNS are  changed very often) 
  1/6M Sampling dist. of sample proportion,
pre-req-exam
7.6; 
  1/8W Large sample estimation,
point estimation
8.1; 8.2; 8.3; 8.4
  1/10F Interval estimation 8.5 #(1) 7.29; 7.30; 7.33; 7.34; 7.46; 7.50; 7.56
 1/13M Application examples of
interval estimation
8.5
 1/15W Estimating difference of two 
population means
8.6
 1/17F Estimating difference of two 
binomial proportions 
8.7 #(2)8 8.11; 8.12; 8.13; 8.14; 8.15; 8.17; 8.24; 8.28;
 8.31; 8.32; 8.33; 8.34
 1/20M Martin Luther King Holiday
No Class
 1/22W Chosing the sample size 8.9
 1/24F Quiz #1 #(3) 8.38; 8.39; 8.40; 8.41; 8.42; 8.43; 8.47; 8.48; 
8.49; 8.50; 8.52; 
 1/27M Test of hypothesis 9.1; 9.2; 
 1/29W Large sample test of 
population mean
9.3
 1/31F Application examples of
test of population mean
9.3 #(4) 8.57; 8.61; 8.62;8.63; 8.66;8.67; 9.4; 9.5;9.8;9.7; 
 9.9; 9.10; 9.12; 
 2/3M Test of hypothesis of 
difference of two population means
9.4
 2/5W Test of hypothesis for a 
binomial proportion
9.5
 2/7F Test of hypothesis of difference 
between two binomial proportions
9.6 #(5) 9.13; 9.17;9.18;9.19; 9.21; 9.22; 9.23; 9.24; 9.27;
 9.28; 9.29
 2/10M Quiz #2 Inference from small samples
 t-distribution
10.1;10.2
 2/12W Small sample inference for 
a population mean
10.3
 2/14F Small sample inference for 
difference of two population means
10.4 #(6) 9.37; 9.38; 9.39; 9.40; 10.6; 10.8;10.9; 10.10;
10.11; 10.13;
 2/17M Midterm Exam  
 2/19W The analysis of variance 11.1; 11.2;11.3
 2/21F One-way classification, ANOVA
for a complete random design
11.4;  #(7) 10.16; 10.17; 10.18; 10.19; 10.20; 10.22; 
 10.23(a)(b); 10.24(a)(b)
 2/24M Testing the equality of the treatment 
means,CI for treatment means
11.4  
 2/26W k sample data 14.5 
 2/28F Quiz #3 #(8) 11.3; 11.6; 11.7; 11.8; 11.10; 11.11; 11.12;
 11.13; 11.14; 
 3/3M application examples of k sample data 11.5
 3/5W Contingency tables 14.1-14.3
 3/7F application examples of 
contingency table
14.4 #(9)11.4,11.5,11.9,11.15,11.16
 3/10M application examples of 
contingency table
 3/12W  Review and Evaluation
 3/14F Review  
   
 Office Hours before final: Thursday(March 20)2:30-4:00pm or an appointment by e-mail

Final Exam :  10:15 am Friday, March 21, 2003




 
 
 
 
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