NORTHEAST COLLEGE Department of Mathematics Introduction to Statistics Math 1342 CRN: 26831 - Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR: HOMEPAGE: EMAIL ADDRESS: Tam LeDuc http://learning.nec.hccs.edu/members/tleduc tam.leduc@hccs.edu Prerequisite A student who enrolls in this course must have a passing grade in MATH-1314. Course Description This course is designed to be a beginning course and serve as a prerequisite for further study in courses requiring knowledge of statistics. Principles of both descriptive and inferential statistics are discussed, illustrated, and applied in situations close to most of students experience. The mathematics involved requires that students have a proficiency in algebra. This is a three credit hours course. Textbook: Ron Larson and Elizabeth Farber; Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World; Pearson, Fifth Edition, 2012. ISBN-13: 9780321693624. Course Goals The student will: Learn the nature and implication of basic principles of statistics and how they play an important role in our daily lives. Organize and summarize data and represent graphically the important information contained in a data set.
Compute numerical quantities that measure the central tendency and dispersion of a set of data. Understand the basic properties of probability. Determine probabilities using postulates, rules of probability and various probability distribution tables. Distinguish between discrete and continuous random variables. Compute the mean and standard deviation of a probability distribution. Test hypotheses by using the appropriate distribution and construct confidence intervals about means, standard deviations, and proportions. Study the sampling distribution of some useful statistics. Learn a method for estimating some population parameters. Understand and apply the basic concepts of statistical inference to the decision making process. Fit a least-squares line to a set of data and interpret the coefficient of correlation. Learn to use a statistical software package in assisting statistical computations of measures of central tendency, comparison, and variability, graphing, simulations, probability distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests. Grading Your grade will be determined based upon the total points earned on examinations. There is no provision for doing extra or outside work to improve your grade. The course average will be calculated as follows: Major Exams (3 @ 18%) 54% MyMathLab 12% Final Exam 34% Total 100% The final course grade will be determined by the following scale: A = 90.0% to 100% B = 80.0% to 89.9% C = 70.0% to 79.9% D = 60.0% to 69.9% F < 60.0% Exams: There will be three major exams and a final exam during the semester. All the exams are multiple choices and online (via MyMathLab). Make-up exams will not
be given in the course for any reasons. Only one MISSED major exam will be substituted by the final exam grade. Missing a second exam will result in an automatic zero. Online Exam Policy 1) ONLY ONE ATTEMPT IS ALLOWDED. 2) YOU HAVE EXACTLY TWO AND HALF HOURS TO FINISH THE TEST. 3) NO EXCEPTION. You should plan for plenty of time to take the test, when you start then you must finish it, you can't restart at all. Test time is Eastern times (ET). Begin of the semester you have to send me an acknowledge statement to show that you have read, understood, and accepted the online exam policy. If you failure to do this, you will be dropped out of this course. EXAM SCHEDULE Test Number Date Chapters covered Exam 1 9/26 9/29 Chapters 1, 2, and 3 Exam 2 10/24 10/26 Chapters 4, 5, and partial 6; Exam 3 11/21 11/23 Partial chapter 6, 7, and 9 Final 12/06 12/08 Comprehensive Note: The site for exam 2 will be posted two weeks before the exam day. Notice: This is a tentative the date is subject to change. ALL EXAMS are on MyMathLab. Each exam is allowed two and half hours limit and ONLY ONE ATTEMPT. Homework: All homework will be online via MyMathLab and assigned through the calendar section. Homework contributes 12% of course grade, dateline is assigned for every sections of homework. Student must observe the homework dateline. It is essential that the student does the homework and reads the assigned material properly in order to achieve a good grade.
MyMathLab: This course is computer oriented. All homework and exams are posted in MyMathLab; therefore, students must use the MyMathLab program to access the exams and homework. To register to MyMathLab program students have to buy a MyMathLab package. Warning: MyMathLab program is MANDATORY for this course; you will be dropped out of this course if you have not registered to the MyMathLab program after the dateline (September 15, 2014). Instruction to log-in the MyMathLab: Students should register to MyMathLab at latest one week before the class starts to get familiar with it. Students: Go to www.coursecompass.com Click the Log in button for students, and enter the login name and password you created during registration. Above is the instruction to log in the MyMathLab. You also need the course ID following. Course ID: leduc00375 Course Name: Math 1342 Introduction to Statistics DE course fall 2014; CRN: 26831 Description: This is a MyMathLab for student homework of class Math 1342, CRN: 26831; fall 2014 semester. Course Material: Introduction to Statistics Last date to register: September 15, 2014 Start Date: August 25, 2014 End Date: December 16, 2014 Textbook ISBN: 9780321715418 Help Phone for MyMathLab: 1-800-677-6337. Mon-Sat 8:00 am-8:00 pm To register for Math - 1342 Introduction to Statistics DE course; fall 2014; CRN: 26831: 1. Go to pearsonmylabandmastering.com. or coursecompass.com 2. Under Register, click Student. 3. Enter your instructor s course ID: leduc33269, and click Continue.
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Last day to withdraw: Friday October 31, 2014 Course Outline 1. Introduction to Statistic 1.1. An Overview of Statistics 1.2. Data Classification 1.3. Data Collection and Experimental Design 2. Descriptive Statistics 2.1. Frequency Distributions and Their Graphs 2.2. More Graphs and Displays 2.3. Measures of Central Tendency 2.4. Measures of Variation 2.5. Measures of Position Part Two. Probability& Probability Distributions 3. Probability 3.1. Basic Concepts of Probability and Counting 3.2. Conditional Probability and the Multiplication Rule
3.3. The Addition Rule 3.4. Additional Topics in Probability and Counting 4. Discrete Probability Distributions 4.1. Probability Distributions 4.2. Binomial Distributions 4.3. More Discrete Probability Distributions 5. Normal Probability Distributions 5.1. Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution 5.2. Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities 5.3. Normal Distributions: Finding Values 5.4. Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 5.5. Normal Approximations to Binomial Distributions Part Three. Statistical Inference 6. Confidence Intervals 6.1. Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Large Samples) 6.2. Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Small Samples) 6.3. Confidence Intervals for Population Proportions
6.4. Confidence Intervals for Variance and Standard Deviation 7. Hypothesis Testing with One Sample 7.1. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing 7.2. Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Large Samples) 7.3. Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Small Samples) 7.4. Hypothesis Testing for Proportions 7.5. Hypothesis Testing for Variance and Standard Deviation Part Four. More Statistical Inference 9. Correlation and Regression 9.1 Correlation 9.2. Linear Regression 9.3. Measures of Regression and Prediction Intervals