STAT 119

Elementary Statistics

Meets: Monday-Wednesday Time: 7:00 pm- 8:50 pm Room: 332

INSTRUCTOR CONTACT INFORMATION:

Instructor: Sara Zarei email: szarei@swccd.edu

Mailbox: Rm. 345 Voicemail: (619) 482-6565 Ext: 3568

Class website: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~szarei/

Office Hours: Mon & Wed 6:00-7:00 PM. You may also make an appointment by emailing me, using the contact info written above.

Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of Math 65 or the equivalent skill level as determined by the SWC Mathematics Assessment.

Course description: This is an introductory class of practical statistics. Specific topics include:

· Picturing data with graphs

· Describing Distributions with numbers

· Normal distributions

· Correlation

· First order least squares curve fitting—linear regression

· Sampling

· Experiment design

· Elementary probability

· Samples and Populations

· Binomial distributions

· Confidence intervals

· Tests of significance

· Inference errors

· Inferring a population mean

· Inferring a population proportion

Required Textbooks and Materials:

1) Basic Practice of Statistics Fourth Edition, by David Moore.

2) Graphing Calculator (TI 83+) or similar model.

3) Minitab Software

Grading: (Out of 1000 points)

· Group Project = 100

· Homework = 100

· Midterms (4) = 600

· Comprehensive Final Exam = 150

· Participation = 50

Total 1000.

Your lowest Midterm score will be dropped.

Therefore No make-up Midterms or Final permitted for any reason.

Final Exam is scheduled for this class on: Mon. May 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

Grades will be decided by the standard:

90-100% = A, 80-89% = B, 70-79% = C, 60-69%=D, Less than 60%=F

Attendance:

Attendance is taken daily at the beginning of class and also after break.

· A student may be dropped from the class for excessive absences.

· If you have more than 4 unexcused absences, you will be dropped and receive a “W” or and “F” depending the date dropped.

· If you have more than 8 combined excused & unexcused absences, you will be dropped and receive a “W” or an “F” depending the date dropped.

· Arriving late or leaving early more than 3 times will be counted as an absence.

· Excessive tardiness will result in being dropped from the class.

Class Policies:

· Southwestern College recommends that students with disabilities discuss academic accommodations with their instructors during the first 2 weeks of class. An alternate media of this syllabus and course handouts is available upon request.

· You may not use your cell phone or PDA as a calculator on exams

· During class your cell phone/pager should be off.

· Plagiarism Statement: “Academic dishonesty of any type by a student provides grounds for disciplinary action by the instructor or college. In written work, no material may be copied from another without proper quotation marks, footnotes, or appropriate documentation.”

· If you know you need to leave class early, or if you arrive late, take a seat near the door.

· RESPECT YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS AT ALL TIMES

Tutoring and Academic Success Center Referral: To further your success, reinforce concepts, and achieve the stated learning objectives for this course, I refer you to the Academic Success Center learning assistance services. Upon request for tutorial service, you will be automatically enrolled in a course called: NC3 Supervised Tutoring. This course is a free, non-credit course that does not appear on your transcripts. This is done to meet the state’s funding requirements in Title V. All (FREE!) Mathematics tutoring services are at the following locations on the main campus (check locations for schedule and open hours):

(a) ASC ( Academic Success Center ), Room 420

(b) The Math Center , Room 426

Notebook:

You should keep an organized binder or notebook. Set-up in three sections:

Section 1: Class notes and handouts by date.

Section 2: Completed homework assignments by section number.

Section 3: Exams and their corrections.

Course Outline:

This is a tentative course outline, subject to changes deemed necessary by the instructor.

Week 1 –-Chapters 1&2 Week 10 --Chapter 13

Week 2 --Chapter 3 Week 11 --Chapter 14

Week 3 --Chapter 4 Week 12 --Chapter 15 (Exam3)

Week 4 --Chapter 5 (Exam 1) Week 13 --Chapter 16

Week 5 --Chapter 8 Week 14 --Chapter 18

Week 6 --Chapter 9 Week 15 --Chapter 20 (Exam 4)

Week 7 --Chapter 10 Week 16 –Group Projects

Week 8 --Chapter 11 (Exam2) Week 17 -- Group Project Presentations

Week 9 --Chapter 12 Week 18 --Final Exam

Final Exam is scheduled for this class on: Monday May 19, 7:00PM-9:00PM