550.111
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS I
SPRING 2008


Instructor:
Office_Hours:
    MWF 11am-noon, and by appointment.
Lectures:
    MWF 1:30-2:20pm, in Remsen 1.
Textbook:
    Statistics, 10th edition, by McClave and Sincich (Pearson/ Prentice Hall).
Teaching Assistants:
  • Section 1, discussion period Wednesday 3:00-3:50pm in Shaffer 300. TA is Yolanda Lau, <ylau6@jhu.edu>.
  • Section 2, discussion period Thursday 9:00-9:50am in Shaffer 300. TA is Igor Chudinov, <chudinov@jhu.edu>.
  • Section 3, discussion period Thursday 10:30-11:20am in Whitehead 304. TA is Heejin Kim, <hkim@ams.jhu.edu>.
  • Section 4, discussion period Thursday 12:00-12:50pm in Whitehead 304. TA is Heejin Kim, <hkim@ams.jhu.edu>.
  • Section 5, discussion period Thursday 1:30-2:20pm in Shaffer 101. TA is Ketan Sharma, <ksharma4@jhu.edu>.
  • Additional TA: Patrick Bindjeme <bindjeme@ams.jhu.edu>. When solutions are available they will be posted on his webpage here.
  • TA Office Hours
    • Monday 4:30-5:30pm, Igor
    • Monday 5:30-6:30pm, Igor
    • Tuesday 4:00-5:00pm, Heejin
    • Tuesday 5:00-6:00pm, Heejin
    • Wednesday 5:00-6:00pm, Ketan
    • Wednesday 6:00-7:00pm, Ketan
    • Friday 11:00-12:00pm, Yolanda
    • Friday 12:00-1:00pm, Yolanda
    • Friday 4:00-5:00pm, Patrick
    • Friday 5:00-6:00pm, Patrick
    • (Igor will also be available in Krieger help room Tue 5-7pm.)
Description:
    (From JHU manual) First semster of a general survey of statistical methodology. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability models, random variables, expectation, sampling, the central limit theorem, classic and robust estimation of location, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, two-sample problems, introductory analysis of variance, introductory nonparametric methods.
Grades:
    Weekly homework and a few Minitab projects (10% of grade), first midterm (25% of grade), second midterm (30% of grade), and final exam (35% of grade). Cumulative scores of 90%, 80%, 70%, and 60% represent letter grades A,B,C,D, respectively. These thresholds may be lowered to reflect the difficulty of the exams. Scheduling of the exams will be done in class.
General:
    Everyone is responsible for attending all lectures and hearing all announcements. Late homework will not be accepted except in case of a medical emergency, in which case I will decide how the grade may be made up. Exams may not be missed for any reason except medical emergency (and similar), in which case I reserve the decision of how the grade is to be made up. Plagiarism, cheating, and all forms of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated at all, and will be dealt with in accordance with the procedures outlined in the student manual. You may discuss homework problems with other students in the class up until the time you begin your writeup; your writeup must be your own and must reflect your understanding and effort.
Advice:
    Get to know some of the other students in the class. If you miss a lecture you will then have access to lecture notes to cover the material you are missing. Keep up with the material. If you feel that you are falling behind please visit me to explore ways to get back on track.
Extra_help:
    You are welcome to visit me anytime. Additional help is available through the teaching assistants. On the second floor of Whitehead Hall there is a large room with a glass wall off the main hallway. This is the room in which the TAs hold their office hours. By departmental policy, ALL TAs HOLDING OFFICE HOURS--even if not assigned to our course, as long as they are departmental graduate students--are obligated to assist you to the best of their ability. A heavy majority of TA's there will have the necessary background to help you. A list of TAs and their office hours is posted around the office of Dept of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and is updated when changes are made.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    TBA

Homework Assignments:



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