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Exams and grading

There will be three in-class exams and one final. The exams will be at appropriate breaks in the material as shown in the above schedule. The date and time for the final exam is Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10:10am and it cannot be changed.

Your grade for the course will be based on your performance on exams, homework, and work done in class:

First exam	10%
Second exam	10%
Third exam	10%
Comprehensive Final exam	20%
Quizzes, In Class Work, Homework & Excel Labs	50%

Please note: No makeup exams will be given.

Quizzes

We will have quizzes almost every week in class. Some will be announced and some will not, so please attend class regularly. You can drop your lowest quiz score for the semester. A missed quiz cannot be made up unless arrangements are made in advance of the quiz.

Homework & Excel Labs

Homework will consist of problems out of the book, and any extra problems that are assigned. In general, homework will not be collected, but we will go over any troubles or questions you have in class. Another very important note: No late homework will be accepted.

Homework should approached as if you were explaining the problem to a fellow student. Note that at times this will require prose, as well as numerical work. Statistics is about communication.

Most of the computations used in statistics can easily be done with Excel. Excel labs will be assigned in class.

In Class Work

We will sometimes do practice problems together in class that will be turned in and graded. The work done in class could range from work done in groups to a quick quiz. A certain percentage of this work will be dropped, and so no make up work is given. Not all these class activities will be announced in advance, so on any given day you should be prepared and relatively on top of the material. Only documented emergency circumstances are acceptable reasons to be allowed to make-up missed work. The wisest course of action is to regularly attend class.

Academic Integrity

Unless you are asked to work on a group project, I expect that the work you hand in represents your efforts exclusively, or proper citations/credits are provided. If you use something from the internet (even indirectly or paraphrased), please include a link reference. If it is from a text, including the course text, please cite the title, author and page reference somewhere in your work. Working with others to gain understanding is highly encouraged, but blind copying of someone else's lab or homework is a serious violation of university policy and has dire consequences for your academic career and life in general. Please don't fall in this trap. If things get really out of control in your life and you're totally freaking out about some assignment, then come talk to me before it's due. We'll work something out. I promise.

Extra Help

Everyone gets confused from time to time. I get confused on a daily basis. Sometimes the ideas in the class might seem heavy or "way out there" when you first encounter them, but we can find a way to turn just about anything into a step-by-step process. If you get lost, please come see me. Or send me an email, or put a note in a bottle and throw it into the nearest body of water. I recommend the email if you'd prefer the less personal approach. Plus, it's faster.

We're going to be cookin' through the material and I've tried to give us enough breathing room to take in the pretty sights along the way, so it's very important to keep up on the assignments. Other options for help include:

Work with your classmates.
Get a tutor (There is free math tutoring - Ask me about it)

If you have a documented disability requiring academic adjustments for this class, please contact Disability Services at 303-458-4941 as soon as possible. Accommodations cannot be provided without documentation

Week of	Sections Covered	Topics
January 12	1.1, 1.2, 1.3	Introduction, Random Sampling
January 19	2.1, 2.2, 2.3	Graphical and Stem-and-Leaf Displays
January 26	2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3	Measures of Center and Variation
February 2	3.4, Review for Exam 1, Exam 1	Percentiles, Box-and-Whisker Plots
February 9	4.1, 4.2,4.3	Probability, Counting
February 16	5.1, 5.2, 5.3	Random Variables, The Binomial Distribution
February 23	5.4, Review Exam 2, Exam 2	Poisson Distributions
March 2	Spring Break
March 9	6.1, 6.2, 6.3	The Normal Distribution
March 16	7.1, 7.2,7.3	Sampling Distributions, The Central Limit Theorem
March 23	8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1	Estimation, Hypothesis Testing
March 30	9.2, 9.3	Hypothesis Testing cont.
April 6	Review for Exam 3, Exam 3
April 13	10.1, 10.2, 10.3	Correlation and Regression
April 20	10.4, Review for Final Exam	Multiple Regression
Friday, May 1 @ 8am	Cumulative Final Exam