| Instructor: | Qing Shao | Office: | N531 Ross building | |
| Phone: | 736-2100 ext 66096 | Office hour: | Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (or by appointment) |
| Course home page: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Grads/qshao/akmath2560 |
| Text: | Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (4th edition) by D.S. Moore & G.P. McCabe |
| Publisher: Freeman |
| Grading: | Assignments | 5% |
| Mid-term test | 35% | |
| Final exam: | 60% |
| Assignments: |
| 1. | Solutions will be provided. | |
| 2. | Every student has to hand in his/her own assignment. | |
| 3. | A ``drop box'' on the 5th floor of North Ross will be set up for students to hand in their assignments. | |
| You have to print your name and student number and, in particular, you have to underline your family name. | ||
| The name should be identical to the one on your student card (or York card). |
| Test: |
| It is scheduled on October 29. It will cover all the material in Chapters 1 and 2. |
| Final Exam: |
| It will cover all the materials covered in this course. |
| Note: |
| 1. | Late assignments will not be accepted. | |
| 2. | If you miss any test, no make-up will be given. | |
| If a valid explanation is provided (such as a medical note), | ||
| the final marks will then be adjusted accordingly. | ||
| 3. | Do not write the test or exam, if you do not feel well. | |
| Once you wrote the test or exam, that's the score that you will receive. |
| Approximate Outline: |
| Date | Description | Section | Reminder |
| Sep 10 | Univariate graphical presentation | 1.1 | |
| Sep 17 | Univariate numerical summary | 1.2 | |
| Sep 24 | Intro to Normal distribution | 1.3 | |
| Oct 1 | Scatterplot and correlation | 2.1, 2.2 | Assignment 1 |
| Oct 8 | Regression | 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 | |
| Oct 15 | Design of Experiments | 3.1, 3.2 | Assignment 2 |
| Oct 22 | Sampling Design | 3.3 | |
| Oct 29 | Randomness | 4.1 | Mid-term test |
| Nov 5 | Randomness and probability | 4.1, 4.2, 4.5 | Assignment 3 |
| Nov 12 | More on probability | 4.3, 5.1 | |
| Nov 19 | Means and variances | 4.4 | |
| Nov 26 | Sampling distribution | 5.2, rest of 5.1 | Assignment 4 |
| Dec 3 | Sampling distribution and Review | 5.2 | |
| FINAL EXAM | scheduled by the university |