Stat 2 : Introduction to Statistics, Spring 2012
INSTRUCTOR: Shobhana Murali Stoyanov: Please include your full name AND "Stat 2" in all
email to me.
CLASS TIME: MWF 10-11 am, 105 Stanley
OFFICE HOURS: TuW: 11-12:30, and by appointment, in 325 Evans
TEXT: Statistics , 4th ed., by Freedman, Pisani,
and Purves.
GSIs: Office hours can be found here. You can go to the office hours of any GSI, not just
your own.
SCHEDULE: The course schedule is available here. Please check it frequently, as
I will add links of interest and other updates.
It will be very beneficial to you if
you read the indicated chapters before lecture.
Of course you should read them after lecture! Don't read the text like a
novel. Work through as many exercises as you can, and please work at least the
recommended ones.
CLICKERS: Please bring your iClicker to class. We will
regularly have clicker questions, usually based on material covered
in the previous one or two classes. The points will count toward your
grade, and the lowest three days will be dropped. You will receive
points for attempting to answer, not just for getting the correct
answer.
HOMEWORK: A list of recommended problems for each chapter may
be found here. Homework is not
to be turned in, but the quizzes will be based on the homework
problems. Answers will be posted in one of the glass cases on the 3rd
floor of Evans.
EXAMS: There will be
four 50-minute quizzes to be held in section, two
50-minute in-class midterms, and one 3-hour final exam (room to be announced).
If you do not take the final, you will not pass the class.
The dates of the tests are:
- Quizzes: All on Wednesdays: Feb. 1, Feb. 15, Mar. 14, Apr. 18
- Midterms: Friday, Feb. 24, and Friday, April 6: in class.
- Final Exam: Tuesday, May 8: room TBA
There will be no early or makeup exams.
GRADING:
Your grade will be determined as follows:
- Clicker points: 5%
- Quizzes: 15%
- Midterms: 40%
- Final Exam: 40%
No individual letter grades will be given for midterm, or
final. You will get a letter grade for the course that is based on
your overall score.
CALCULATOR: You will need one that adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, takes square roots, raises numbers to a power, and preferably also computes factorials. Statistical calculators are unnecessary.