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An appropriate thing to say regarding this course
might be Welcome to the wonderful world of data! Why?
Well, the focus of MATH 117 Introduction to Statistics - ONLINE will include
organizing, exploring, and presenting data using tabular and graphical
forms. Reading newspapers and magazines, exploring information
related to other disciplines on the Internet, and even watching the
evening news programs, you will find data and this data will be analyzed
and presented using statistical techniques, many of which you will learn
about in this course. Reading one of the many medication
advertisements in magazine, you will find that sampling techniques are
used to to create the groups on which these medications were tested and
statistics regarding the performance and side effects of these
medications are presented. If you play the lottery or you buy
raffle tickets, having knowledge of probability will help you to
determine what, if anything, you might expect to win. Having
knowledge of how to analyze, organize, and present data, some basic
knowledge of probability, familiarity with various distributions, an
understanding of sampling and the design of experiments as well as for
hypothesis testing and the use of confidence intervals, and correlation
and regression will be helpful to you in your studies in any discipline
that necessitates the use and analysis of data -- and might help you to
get a better-paying job in the future too.
Take the
tour of
the course web site.
To open the various files on this site, you need Adobe Reader; once you
download
and install Adobe Reader, you will be able to open and to read these files.
Course Documents:
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Syllabus: Please carefully read the
course syllabus.
This document will provide you with information about the course, the
required textbook the exams and quizzes, the grading policy,
attendance and participation, and the make up policy (there are no
make ups).
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Readings and Practice Exercises: The
only way in which to learn the material is to do the
readings and practice
exercises. The readings and practice exercises document does not have any dates,
however, each section is listed, in general, in the order in which
the material will be covered throughout the semester. You
will be told which sections to read for the next class meeting, and
you are expected to come to class prepared to discuss this material.
Once a section has been assigned, you are expected to read the
section and to start working on the assigned practice exercises.
You should use
MyMathLab
as well. The resources on
MyMathLab
include the complete text online,
PowerPoint slides, practice quizzes, practice tests, data files for the exercises,
and resources that provide access to additional practice exercises
as well as to help you to develop a customized study plan.
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Course Calendar: For your convenience,
the important dates from the
DGCE Academic Calendar and the dates
of the three (3) examinations and the cumulative final examination have been
compiled in the course calendar.
Top of Page Quizzes:
Reminders about quizzes will be posted on the current
readings and practice exercises page and the Blackboard announcement
for the week during which they are administered. Keeping up to date on the
readings and practice
exercises will help you to be ready to take the quizzes.
Since quizzes will be administered during the announced days/times
only; you will not be able to take a quiz if you do not begin the quiz
during/on the announced days/times. If you miss an quiz, your grade will be
recorded as zero (0).
There will be seven (7) quizzes. Information about
and directions for taking the seven (7) quizzes will be available on the
Assignment Turn-In page on Blackboard during the dates listed
below.
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Quiz #1 (Chapters 1, 2): Thursday,
February 2, 2012 – Friday, February 3, 2012
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Quiz #2 (Chapter 3): Thursday,
February 9, 2012 – Friday, February 10, 2012
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Quiz #3 (Chapters 4, 3(for review)):
Thursday, February 16, 2012 – Friday, February 17, 2012
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Quiz #4 (Chapter 5): Thursday,
March 1, 2012 – Friday, March 2, 2012
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Quiz #5 (Chapter 6, 7): Thursday,
March 22, 2012 – Friday, March 23, 2012
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Quiz #6 (Chapter 8, 9): Thursday,
April 12, 2012 – Friday, April 13, 2012
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Quiz #7 (Chapters 10): Thursday,
April 19, 2012 – Friday, April 20, 2012
Some of these quizzes will be taken/submitted on
Blackboard and at least one will be hand-written and submitted via USPS
mail.
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For quizzes to be submitted by USPS mail, you
must address your quiz-envelope as directed and send the quiz by
USPS mail so that it is postmarked by the stated postmark deadline.
Quiz envelopes which do not have a postmark, those having an
illegible postmark, and those for which the postmark is after the
postmark deadline will earn zero (0) points. A meter mark produced
by postal meter is NOT the same as a postmark: meter marks are NOT
evidence of mailing and will not be accepted in place of postmarks
as evidence of submitting quizzes by the stated postmark deadlines.
If you cannot mail your quiz so that it is postmarked by the
postmark deadline then you should have someone deliver your quiz to
the Post Office so that it can be appropriately postmarked.
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Quizzes to be taken on Blackboard may not be
opened, examined, closed and then reopened at a later time:
Blackboard quizzes must be taken/completed/submitted once they are
opened. Each Blackboard quiz has a time limit, and Blackboard will
consider the quiz to be completed/submitted once the quiz window has
been closed. Make sure that you have a stable, strong Internet
connection as well as an adequate power supply when you take an
online quiz: quizzes will not be reset for you if you lose your
Internet connection and/or if your laptop shuts down once you have
discharged your battery.
Top of Page Exams:
There will be three (3) examinations and one (1) cumulative final
examination: all examinations will be administered on the
Framingham State University campus. The dates for these
examinations are listed below.
These examinations will be closed-book. You
must bring a calculator for each examination; extra calculators will not
be available for you to borrow during the exam and you will not be
permitted to use a computer, the calculator on your cell phone or the
calculator on your PDA during examinations. For all examinations
you must bring at least one (1) pencil with an eraser, your calculator,
and your valid (picture) license, Framingham State University ID or your
passport with up to date, recognizable picture. You are expected to
be on-time for the examinations; you will not be given extra time during
which to take/complete an examination if you are late.
Please remember that you are responsible for all readings in the textbook and online, in
the PowerPoint slides
provided on this web site, and in the PowerPoint slides provided on
MyMathLab,
the video lectures, all practice exercises
listed in the readings and
practice exercises handout and available on
MyMathLab, and all examples provided in the text
and on MyMathLab as well as those discussed
online,
provided in the PowerPoints slides, on this
web site and on
MyMathLab, and provided in the online readings;
if you purchased a (used) text without an access code for
MyMathLab,
you must purchase access to
MyMathLab on on the site by left-clicking the Register button and
following the directions.
- Exam I (one hour; Chapters 1 - 4): Thursday,
February 23, 2012
- Exam II (one hour; Chapters 5 - 7): Thursday,
March 29, 2012
- Exam III (one hour; Chapters 8 - 10): Thursday,
April 26, 2012
- Final Exam (3 hours; Chapters 1 - 10): Thursday,
May 03, 2012
Please remember that
your questions are important to me, that I want to help you to do
well in the course, and that there is no such thing as a
stupid question.
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