Website Address -- http://www.math.umass.edu/~jeneral/
Professor: Joanna Jeneralczuk
Office: LGRT 1328; Phone: 545-3128
E-mail: jeneral@math.umass.edu
Lecture: Section A – Tu,Th 4:00 - 5:15 Marcus Hall 131
Section B - Tu, Th 1:00 – 2:15 Marcus Hall 131
Discussion: Section A - every Wednesday (starting January 26)
Section B – every Monday (starting January 24)
Office Hours: Tu/Th 11-12:30 and 2:30- 3:30 and by appointment
Office Hours for TA: TBA
Prerequisite: Knowledge of high school algebra.
Textbook: Introductory Statistics , by Prem S.Mann, 7th edition, Wiley Custom (selections for University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Computing Software: Not required, but you are welcome to experiment with MINITAB or EXCEL.
Grading: Final averages will be weighted as follows:
Homework - 10%
Quizzes + participation during disscusion sections - 15%
Attendance and participation in lectures - 5%
1st Exam ( February, in class) - 20%
2nd Exam ( April, in class) - 20%
Final Exam (University schedule) - 30%
( Anyone failing the final exam will not receive a grade in excess of C).
Grades will be assigned according to the following scale:
A: 93-100; A-: 88-92; B+: 83-87; B: 80-82; B-: 75-79
C+: 70-74; C: 65-69; C-: 60-64; D+: 55-59; D: 51-54; F below 51.
Attendance: We will be covering a large amount of unfamiliar material in a short period of time.
The course is structured so that each new section builds on the material from the previous sections.
It is important, therefore, that you attend and participate in all lectures and discussion sessions, do
reading assignments, and homeworks. Don't fall behind.
Discussion sections: Basic material will be covered in lectures. The discussion session will provide
opportunity for review, solving additional problems and answering questions on material covered in the lectures and homeworks.
Homework:
1. Homework will be assigned every week and collected the following Monday (section A) or Wednesday (section B) at the start of the discussion section. The deadline is Thursday.
2. Late homework will not be accepted.
3. Homework must be done in the prescribed format:
a) Loose-leaf or letter-size pad paper only. (No spiral bound paper or legal-size paper).
b) Multiple pages must be stapled together. (Otherwise, you might lose points.)
Quizzes: Quizzes will be given during discussion sections .
Exams: All exams are closed book .
Make-Up Policy:
1. There are no scheduled make-up exams. Make-up exams will be offered to students with legitimate
conflicts or unanticipated emergencies that can be documented in advance (when possible) or after the fact.
2. Unpreparedness or a heavy work load are not legitimate excuses for requesting a make-up exam.
3. If you have two exams scheduled for the same time period, the University policy will be followed
(the course with the lowest last digit of the schedule number will have priority).
4. If you cannot make it to an exam, contact me in person or by telephone or send me an e-mail
as early as possible.
5. On your return, bring documentation regarding the situation.
6. Missing an exam without a legitimate excuse will result in a 15% penalty on the make-up score.
Expectations:
1.Students are expected to be on time for lectures and discussions. When this is not possible, students
are expected to enter the classroom as unobtrusively as possible.
2. A student who has to leave a lecture or discussion section early should notify the instructor or TA
before the start of class.
3.Common sense rules of etiquette should be observed at all times.
4.Please do not bring food or drinks into the lecture or discussion. Turn off cell phones. No headphones.
5.Newspaper reading is not acceptable during the lecture, nor is any behavior that can be easily be
construed as disrespectful or disruptive.
Academic Honesty:
1. All work submitted by the student is expected to be his or her own.
2. While students may collaborate on homework assignments, the final version should represent the
students' own effort and understanding.
3. Quizzes and exams will be proctored diligently to assure fairness.
4. Any violation of these policies will be addressed according to the procedures laid out in the booklet
Course Schedule:
I plan to cover chapters 1 – 10 and part of chapter 13 from the textbook Lecture notes will be posted
before each lecture, please print and bring them to class. The handouts will show the basic topics,
definitions, stated problems but details are missing. These, of course, are filled in during class.
We will cover:
1. What is statistics, types of statistics, population and sample, basic terms, types of variables (Chapter 1).
2. Organizing and Graphing Qualitative and Quantitative Data (Chapter 2).
3. Numerical Descriptive Measures for ungrouped and grouped data . (Chapter 3).
4. Bivariate Data: Bivariate data scatter-plots of for two variables, correlation coefficient,best fitting line (notes and part of Chapter 13)
5. Probability and Probability Distribution: Event, sample space, event composition, calculating probabilities, counting rules, mutually exclusive (or disjoint) events, conditional
probabilities and independent events, tree diagram . (Chapter 4).
6.Discrete Random variables and their probability distributions : random variables, mean and standard deviation of a discrete random variable, factorials ,combinations and permutations, binomial and hypergeometric distribution.(Chapter 5)
7. Normal Distributions: Normal probability distribution, use of standard normal distribution tables, applications of the normal distribution (Chapter 6).
8. Sampling Distributions: Random sampling, sampling plans and experimental designs,sample mean, the Central Limit Theorem, distribution of sample proportion.(Chapter 7)
9.Estimation of the mean and proportion (Chapter 8)
10. Hypothesis tests about the mean and proportion (Chapter 9)
11. Estimation and hypothesis testing – two populations (Chapter 10).
[Note: Because this course presupposes knowledge of
basic math skills, it will satisfy the R1 requirement upon successful
completion and R2]