Office Location: 154 MCS, 111 Cummington St.

Office Hours: Monday and Friday 3 - 4

TF Office hours for C1: George Story gestory2@bu.edu Wednesday 3 - 4, Thurs 2 - 3 MCS B24/B42

TF and TF Office hours for D1: Luis Huerta lhuerta@bu.edu Tuesday and Thursday 4 - 5 MCS B24 (temporary location)

Office hours for MET Math 113: Wednesday 5 - 6

Text: Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data by Michael Sullivan III (4th ed; Pearson) You don’t need the access codes.

Statistical Computing: R and RStudio https://rpubs.com/hblatt/101311

Academic code and conduct: http://www.bu.edu/academics/files/2011/08/AcademicConductCode.pdf

The Mathematics and Statistics Department operates a free, walk-in Tutoring Room, located at MCS B24, and typically open most of Monday through Friday in the 10am-4pm time period.

Grades

Homework: 15% (You can drop three homework grades). No late homework will be accepted.

Homework grading scheme: Check plus = 100, Check = 89, Check minus = 65

    Final Grades:

    94 - 100  = A     90 - 93 = A-
    
    87 - 89   = B+    84 - 86 = B    80 - 83 = B-
    
    77 - 79   = C+    74 - 76 = C    70 - 33 = C-
    
    67 - 79   = D+    64 - 66 = D    60 - 63 = D-
    
    0 - 59    = F

3 in class exams: 20% each. Tentative in class exam schedule:

    Exam I   Sept 30th
    
    Exam II  Oct 30th
    
    Exam III Nov 23rd (covers 9.1,9.2,9.3)

Final exam: 25%

Homework and associated readings.

Intro to Statistics.

    Reading 1.1, problems => 1-39 odds, due Sep 9th

    Reading 1.2, problems => 11,13, due Sep 9th

Distribution.

    Reading 2.1, problems => 7 - 15 odds, due Sep 16th

    Reading 2.2, problems => 9 - 14, make a histrogram of Sepal.Length from iris data set
    and describe the shape. due Sep 16th

Numerically summarizing data.

    Reading 3.1, problems => 13 - 17, due Sep 23rd

    Reading 3.2, problems => 5 - 10,14,24, due Sep 23rd

    Reading 3.4, problems => 5 - 15 odds, 22, 25, due Sep 28th

    Reading 3.5, problems => 3 - 10, due Sep 28th

Probability and the Normal Distribution.

    Reading 7.1, problems => 31 - 36 due Oct 7th

    Reading 7.2, problems => 5 - 17 odds, 33 - 47 odds, 56 due Oct 14th

Central Limit Theorem for Means and Proportions.

    Reading 8.1, problems => 15 - 23 odds due Oct 21st

    Reading 8.2, problems => 11 - 17 due Oct 21st

Confidence Intervals: Means, Proportions and Variances.

    Reading 9.1, problems => 25 - 29 due Oct 28th

    Reading 9.2, problems => 21 - 33 odds due Nov 13th

    Reading 9.3, problems => 5 - 13 odds due Nov 13th

Testing one population parameter: Means, Proportions and Variances.

    Reading 10.1, problems => 9 - 14, 15 - 21 odds due Nov 30th

    Reading 10.2, problems => 7 - 19 odds due Nov 30th

    Reading 10.3, problems => 1 - 5, 11 - 19 odds due Dec 9th

    Reading 10.4, problems => 1,3,13,15 due Dec 9th