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Class: Park Science Building 338, MWF 2-3pm.
Instructor: Walter Stromquist
Office: Park 330
Office hours: MWF 10-12, 3-4; Tu/Th by appt.
Phone: Cell 610-220-4382; Office 610-526-5352
(Leave messages on the cell phone, not the office phone.
For snow emergencies call the office phone after 11:30am.)
Email: wstromqu@brynmawr.edu
Main text:
Freedman, Pisani, Purves, Statistics, 3rd Edition, W.W.Norton, ISBN 0-393-97083-3.
Computer text:
Norusis, SPSS 11.0 Guide to Data Analysis, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-034830-9.
Web site: http://www.brynmawr.edu/math/people/stromquist/math203/index.html
Problem sessions (non-computer): Supervised by Teaching Assistant Adina Halpern, these are held...
Sundays, 7-8pm, Park 338, and
Thursdays, 7-8pm, Park 337,
starting Jan. 23 and excluding Mar. 6 and Mar. 10. These are optional but many students find them helpful.
Lab sessions (computer): About three sessions per week, times to be determined. These are opportunities for informal instruction in SPSS and for working on the computer assignments. They are also optional.
Course content: We'll cover most of the text, as follows:
Descriptive Statistics, Ch. 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12 -
Ways to describe a pile of data (histograms, averages,
standard deviations)
Normal distributions
Ways to relate two variables (correlation, regression)
Probability, Ch. 13 - 18
Confidence intervals and other estimation techniques, Ch. 19, 21, 23
Hypothesis tests, Ch. 26, 27, maybe 28, maybe 29.
Course requirements: There will be two exams (dates TBD) and a self-scheduled final exam covering the entire course. Homework will be collected regularly, tentatively on Mondays. You are encouraged to work together with other students on homework and to use any resources that you find helpful, provided that you write up your solutions yourself. There will also be regular computer assignments, due most Fridays starting Jan. 28, and a special computer exam near the end of the semester. Late homework is likely to incur a penalty. Grading (subject to change): two exams 20% each, final 30%, text homework 10%, computer homework and computer exam together 20%.
Students who need special accommodations in this course because of a disability or for any other reason are encouraged to meet with me privately early in the semester.
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