GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
Homework | Homework assignments will be graded: the average grade weighs 10 percent of the final grade. At the professor's discretion, late assignments might not be accepted. | 10/100 |
Attendance | Full credit for attendance will be given to students with three or fewer unexcused absences. Four or more absences will result in a proportional reduction of the grade. | 10/100 |
First intermediate exam | | 20/100 |
Second intermediate exam | | 20/100 |
Fianl exam (comprehensive) | | 40/100 |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
AWork of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensive knowledge of relevant information or content. The student demonstrates complete, accurate, and critical knowledge of all the topics, and is able to solve problems autonomously.
BThis is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised.There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluate theory and concepts and relate them to practice. The work does not suffer from any major errors or omissions and provides evidence that the student uses clear logic in his/her arguments. CThis is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures. Mathematical statements are properly written most of the time. DThis level of performances demonstrates that the student lacks a coherent grasp of the material. Important information is omitted and irrelevant points included. Many mistakes are made in solving the problem raised. In effect, the student has barely done enough to persuade the instructor that s/he should not fail. FThis work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the subject-matter. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Full credit for attendance will be given to students with three or fewer unexcused absences. Four or more absences will result in a proportional reduction of the grade. Coming late to class or leaving early will be possible only with permission of the instructor.
Major exams (midterm or final) cannot be made up without the permission of the Dean’s Office. The Dean’s Office will grant such permission only when the absence was caused by a serious impediment, such as a documented illness, hospitalization or death in the immediate family (in which you must attend the funeral) or other situations of similar gravity. Absences due to other meaningful conflicts, such as job interviews, family celebrations, travel difficulties, student misunderstandings or personal convenience, will not be excused. Students who will be absent from a major exam must notify the Dean’s Office prior to that exam. Absences from class due to the observance of a religious holiday will normally be excused. Individual students who will have to miss class to observe a religious holiday should notify the instructor by the end of the Add/Drop period to make prior arrangements for making up any work that will be missed.
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Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
Week 1 and week 2 | Chapter 1: Data and Statistics. Chapter 2: Descriptive statistics: tabular and graphical presentation. Chapter 3: Descriptive statistics: numerical measures. | | Chapter 2: 2,3,9,11,14,15,21,25,26. Chapter 3: 7,11,13,14,15,19,27,28,31,45,50,51. | |
Week 3 and week 4 | Chapter 4: Introduction to Probability (sections 4.1 to 4.4) | | Chapter 4: 14,16,31,39,40. | |
Week 5 to week 7 | Chapter 5: Discrete probability distributions: (sections 5.1 to 5.4). Chapter 6: Continuous probability distributions (sections 6.1 to 6.3) | | Chapter 5: 6,7,11,13,15,27,33,35,65. Chapter 6: 1,2,5,11,12,13,14,27,32,33. | Week 7: first intermediate exam (chapters 1 to 4) |
Week 8 to week 10 | Chapter 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions (sections 7.1 to 7.7). Chapter 8: Interval Estimation. Chapter 9: Hypothesis Tests (sections 9.1 to 9.5) | | Chapter 7: 15,25,29. Chapter 8: 3,9,19,21,36,41,51,55. Chapter 9: 9,11,12,13,14,17,19,25,31,39,41,66,69. | |
Week 11 and week 12 | Chapter 10: Statistical inference about means and proportions with two populations. Chapter 11: Inference about populations variances (section 11.1) | | Chapter 10: 3,7,11,15,19,25,31,35. Chapter 11: 3,11. | Week 11: second intermediate exam (chapters 5 to 8) |
Week 12 and week 13 | Chapter 12: Tests of goodness of fit and independence (sections 12.1 and 12.2) | | Chapter 12: 2,5,7,8,15,17,31. | |
Week 13 and week 14 | Chapter 14: Simple Linear Regression (sections 14.1 to 14.4) | | Chapter 14: 3,15,17,21. | |
Week 14 | Course review | | | Final Exam COMPREHENSIVE. See University Schedule for date and time. |
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