STA220F Summer 2005 Syllabus

STA220F: Statistics, Summer 2005

University of Toronto at Mississauga

http://www.utm.toronto.edu/~jbrunner/220Sum05

Lecture:

Times: Monday and Wednesday, 1:10 - 3:00 pm, Room 2072 South Building
Instructor: Jerry Brunner
Office: 4059c (South Building)
Phone: 905-828-3816
email: jbrunner@utm.toronto.edu
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:30, or by appointment

Tutorials: Monday and Wednesday in Room 3093, South Building. Tutorials start Wednesday, May 18.

Times: Come to any or all tutorials
- 9:10 am - 10:00 am Last meeting is June 6.
- 11:10 am - 12:00 pm
- 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
- 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Christine Lim
Office: 3093H (South Building)
Phone: 905-828-5329
email: limm_my@yahoo.com
Office Hours: MW 10:10 am - 11:00 am and 4:10-5:00 pm, or by appointment.

Text: Statistics (10th Edition) by McClave and Sincich. Can you get by with the 9th edition? Maybe, but the problems have changed. If you photocopy the problems from the 10th edition and you can do the homework correctly, you should be okay.

Topics: Descriptive statistics and graphs, Probability, Discrete random variables, Continuous random variables, Sampling distributions, Estimation, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis tests for one and two samples. If time permits, chi-square tests for categorical data. That is, we are doing chapters 1-9 and maybe Chapter 13.

Grading:

Quiz on Assignment 1 (Ch. 1 and 2), May 25th at the beginning of class, worth 10% of the mark.
Midterm, on Chapters 3-5, June 6th, worth 40% of the mark
Final Exam, Comprehensive but with emphasis on the later material, worth 50% of the mark

The quiz, midterm and final will be open book, closed notes, and multiple choice. Homework will not be handed in; do it to prepare for the tests. Tutorials are primarily for help with the homework. Material on the quiz is distinctly easier than the rest of the course. If the quiz is not a gift, then it is a warning. But if it is a warning then it is also a gift.

Missed work: There will be no makeups for the quiz or midterm test. If you miss the quiz or midterm for a serious medical reason, your physician must complete a Medical Certificate; a note is not sufficient. A copy of the Medical Certificate form is available at http://www.utoronto.ca/health/forms/medcert.pdf.

The academic regulations of the university are given in the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters, which can be found in the UTM calendar or on the Web at

http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/regcal/WEBGEN117.html.