Class Times, Days, and Place: 10:00-10:50 MWF, 110  Fenton
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: The Basic Practice of Statistics  (4th Edition) by  David S. Moore
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:50am-11:50am;  Friday 10:50am-11:50am;  (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@uoregon.edu
Web URL: http://uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/243_FALL2007/243_0907.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. 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 10:00am 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 the discussion sessions. Remaining unpicked homeworks will be delivered again in the discussion sessions.  Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.

Exam:  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 your choice.   All students take the final exam at the UO specified time. 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, your quiz score may be deducted.

Discussion sessions:   Your  discussion instructor is Mr. Aaron Bennett. His office location is 204 Fenton.  His office hours are Mondays 2:00-3:30pm and Thursdays 10:00-11:30am.  The discussion sessions are divided as follows according to CRNs:                                
(1) Group 1: 13141 :  Wednesday  3:00-3:50pm  105 Fenton      
(2) Group 2: 13142 :  Wednesday  4:00-4:50pm  105 Fenton
(3) Grpup 3: 13143 :  Thursday      8:00-8:50am   205 DEA
(4) Group 4: 13148   Thursady      9:00-9:50am   205 DEA 

                                             Tentative Syllabus
                             (Updated on Nov  16th, 2007)
 

Tentative Date	Remarks	Sections covered in Class	Homework due date
9/24--9/28	Prerequisite checking Picturing distributions with graphs Describing distributions with numbers Normal distributions	Ch 1  Ch 2  Ch 3	There is no homework in the first week, but you need to read Chapter 1- Chapter 3, inclusive.
10/1--10/5	Quiz#1 on Oct 3rd (Wed). Scatterplots and correlations Regressioon Two-way tables	Ch 4  Ch 5  Ch 6  Ch 7	#1 (a) Read Chapter 4 - Chapter 6;        (b) Solve questions:  Chapter 1: 1.32 Chapter 2: 2.2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.24, 2.28, 2.29 Chapter 3: 3.6, 3.8, 3.14, 3.18, 3.20, 3.21, 3.24, 3.27 due by 10:00am,  10/5.
10/8--10/12	Quiz#2 on Oct  12th(Fri) Sampling Experiments Basic probability	Ch 8  Ch 9  Ch 10	#2  (a) Read Chapter 7 - Chapter 9;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 4: 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 4.12, 4.14, 4.18, 4.25, 4.28. Chapter 5: 5.3, 5.4, 5.10, 5.19, 5.20, 5.30, 5.31, 5.34. Chapter 6: 6.28, 6.31, 6.24.  due by 10:00am, 10/12.
10/15--10/19	Basic probability Sampling distributions	Ch 10  Ch 11	#3 (a) Read Chapter 10 - Chapter 12;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 8: 8.8, 8.11, 8.17, 8.18, 8.20, 8.21, 8.23, 8.24, 8.37, 8.38, 8.43. Chapter 9: 9.18, 9.19, 9.20, 9.21, 9.29, 9.32, 9.45. Chapter 10: 10.6, 10.7, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.15. due by 10:00am, 10/19.
10/22--10/26	Quiz#3 on  Oct  22nd(Mon) Sampling distributions General rules of probability	Ch 11  Ch 12	#4  (a) Read Chapter 13 - Chapter 15;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 11: 11.6, 11.9, 11.17, 11.18, 11.19, 11.20, 11.21, 11.22, Chapter 11: 11.23, 11.24, 11.32, 11.33. due by 10:00am, 10/26.
10/29--11/2	Review for midterm exam Midterm exam on Oct 31st. (covers Ch 1 - Ch 11, inclusive ) General rules of probability Binomial distributions	Ch 12  Ch 13	#5  (a) Read Chapter 16 - Chapter 18;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 12: 12.1, 12.2,  12.13 Chapter 12:  12.18, 12.21, 12.22, 12.25, 12.26, 12.29, Chapter 12: 12.32, 12.43, 12.44, 12.45, 12.52 due by 10:00am, 11/2.
11/5--11/9	Binomial distributions Confidence intervals Hypothesis testing	Ch 13  Ch 14  Ch 15	#6  (a) Read Chapter 19 - Chapter 20;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 13: 13.2, 13.8, 13.12, 13.18, 13.25, 13.27. Chapter 14: 14.17, 14.18, 14.30a, 14.33. due by 10:00am, 11/9.
11/12--11/16	Quiz # 4 on Nov 12 (covers until ch 14, inclusive) Inference in practice Inference about a population mean	Ch 16 Ch 17 Ch 18	#7  (a) Read Chapter 21;        (b) Solve questions: Chapter 15: 15.2, 15.5, 15.10, 15.19, 15.20, 15.29, 15.31, 15.35. Chapter 16: 16.23, 16.24, 16.25, 16.30. Chapter 17: 17.7, 17.23, 17.41, 17.45. due by 10:00am, 11/19. (This week's homework is postponed to the following Monday due to the teaching speed.)
11/19--11/23	No class on 11/23(Thanksgiving Vacation) Inference about a population mean two sample problems  inference about a population proportion Application examples	Ch 18  Ch 19  Ch 20	#8  (a) Read Chapter 22;       (b) Solve questions Chapter 18: 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.7. Chapter 18: 18.19, 18.20, 18.21, 18.36a Chapter 19: 19.25, 19.26, 19.27, 19.28, 19.29, 19.30. (This week's homework is postponed to the following Monday due to Thanksgiving holiday.) due by 10:00am 11/26
11/26--11/30	inference about a population proportion Comparing two proportions Application examples Review	Ch 20  Ch 21  Ch 22	#9  Solve questions: Chapter 20: 20.18, 20.19, 20.20, 20.21, 20.22, 20.29, 20.31, 20.34, 20.37. Chapter 21: 21.7, 21.8, 21.10, 21.11, 21.13, 21.25. due by 10:00am, 11/30
Office Hour before Final: 1:00-2:00pm, Thursday, Dec 6th, 2007. Location:11A, DD Hall	Remark:  (1) You can bring a 8.5" by 11" sheet (double sided) with formulae to the final exam.  (2) You need to bring your student ID  when you take the final exam on Dec 7th, 2007.
Final Exam:  10:15am-12:15pm Friday, Dec 7, 2007, 110 Fenton