Math 3070 - 1 Applied Statistics I *Syllabus* January 16, 2008 Place/Time MWF 9:40 - 10:30 in LS 101 Instructor: A. Treibergs, JWB 224, 581-8350. E-mail: treiberg@math.utah.edu Web page: http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M3072.html Office Hours: 11:45-12:35 MWF (tent.) & by appt. Texts: Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences 7th ed., Duxbury, 2008. Rebecca Elliot, Learning SAS in the Computer Lab, 2nd ed., Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA, 2000. Grading Lab: Students will meet in the computer lab once a week for two hours. Students must pass the lab to pass the course. Most students manage to easily complete the lab assignments during the lab. Or students may access the computer at other times from the Mathematics Center. Homework: You will be asked to write up and hand in homework problems weekly. Midterms: There will be three full hour midterm exams on Jan. 30, Feb. 27 and April 2. Questions will be modifications of homework problems. Quizzes: There will be four 15 minute quizzes on Jan. 16, Feb. 13, Mar. 12 and Apr. 16. For the quizzes you will be responsible for the material covered from the day of the previous quiz or exam through the class meeting preceding the quiz. No makeup quizzes will be given for any reason. Final Exam: Wed., Apr. 30, 8:00-10:00 AM in LS 101. Half of the final will be devoted to material covered after the third midterm exam. The other half will be comprehensive. Students must pass the final to pass the course. Course Grade: Based on the best two of three midterm scores 30%, best three of four quizzes 15%, final 25%, homework 20% plus lab 10%. Tutoring Center: Free tutoring is available in the T. Benny Rushing Mathematics Center, located between LCB and JWB. Normal hours M-Th 8:00 am - 8:00 pm, Fri 8:00 am-6:00 pm. Withdrawals: Last day to drop a class is jan. 16. Until Feb. 29 you can withdraw from the class with no approval at all. After that date you must petition your dean's office to be allowed to withdraw. ADA: The Americans with Disability Act requires that reasonable accommodations be provided for students with cognitive, systemic, learning and psychiatric disabilities. Please contact me at the beginning of the quarter to discuss any such accommodations you may require for this course. Course Content: This is the first course in a sequence of two that offers a comprehensive introduction to the concepts of probability and statistics. We begin by quickly presenting some ways to organize and present data used in descriptive statistics (Ch. 1.) Using sample data to make estimates about a population from which the sample is drawn depends on the notions from probability. We consider basic laws of probability, random variables (one- and two-dimensional), common distributions, sample statistics and the Central limit Theorem (Ch. 2-5.) Finally we develop the basic techniques of inferential statistics, point estimates, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing (Ch. 6-9.) Both the theory behind statistical decision making and its practical application to many different areas will be examined in this course, so that students may appreciate the use of statistics in their professional and personal lives. The course material will be based on Chapters 1-9 of the text and corresponding material from the lab manual.