An Introduction to Statistics Course 2006
An Introduction to Statistics Course (ECOE 1302)
Course Outline
Spring Semester 2005-2006
Instructor: Dr. Samir Safi
E-mail: samirsafi@gmail.com , Website: http://academic2.american.edu/~safi
Class meet and Location: Section 102: SMW, 13-14 M507 Section 202: SMW, 10-11 L318
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Office Hours: SMW: 8:00-9:00, 2:00-3:00 |
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Course objectives:
Statistics is the science of obtaining, analyzing and interpreting data and has applications in almost every field. As such, it is a part of the daily life of every informed person and an absolutely essential tool for researchers of almost all disciplines. The goals of this course are to provide you with an understanding of the basic concepts in statistics and ways of thinking statistically. I hope that this course will help you to evaluate numerical arguments critically and to appreciate the impact of statistical ideas on your academic discipline. In your text, this covers chapters 1, 2 (2.1-2.3), 4 (4.2-4.5), 5, 6 (6.1-6.3), and 7 (7.1-7.2)
Required text:
The Practice of Business Statistics, 2003, Moore, D., McCabe, G., Duckworth, W., Sclove, S.
Exams:
There will be three exams, the formula sheet will be given for each exam. Review sessions will be held prior to each exam. Dates and locations for the review sessions will be announced in class.
Midterm #1 To be announced
Midterm #2 To be announced
Final Exam Wednesday, May 31st , 2006 at 9am-11am
Grading:
Your grade will be determined by your Exams as shown and described below:
Midterm #1 20%
Midterm #2 20%
Final Exam 60%
Attendance:
Students are expected to attend all classes. It is your responsibility to keep informed of any announcements; e.g., quizzes dates, syllabus adjustments or policy changes made during scheduled classes.
Tentative Schedule:
Note that this is a tentative schedule and, as such, is subject to changes.
Sec. | Topic | Week and Date |
Chapter 1: Examining Distributions | ||
1.1 | Displaying Distributions with Graphs | Week #1 : 28 Jan. – 1 Feb. |
1.2 | Describing Distributions with Numbers | Week #2 : 4 Feb. – 8 Feb. |
1.3 | The Normal Distribution | Week #3 : 11 Feb. – 15 Feb. |
Chapter 2: Examining Relationships | ||
2.1 | Scatterplots | Week #4 : 18 Feb. – 22 Feb. |
2.2 | Correlation | Week #4 : 18 Feb. – 22 Feb. |
2.3 | Least-Squares Regression | Week #5 : 25 Feb. – 1 March |
Chapter 4: Probability and Sampling Distributions | ||
4.2 | Probability Models | Week #6: 4 March – 8 March |
4.3 | Random Variables | Week #7: 11 March – 15 March |
4.4 | The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Means and Variances of Random Variables | Week #8: 18 March – 22 March |
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Chapter 5: Sampling Distributions | ||
5.1 | General Probability Rules | Week #9: 25 March – 29 March |
5.2 | The Binomial Distributions
| Week #10: 1 April – 5 April |
5.3 | The Poisson Distributions | Week #11: 8 April – 12 April |
Chapter 6: Introduction to Inference | ||
6.1 | Estimating with Confidence | Week #12: 15 April – 19 April |
6.2 | Tests of Significance
| Week #13: 22 April – 26 April |
6.3 | Using Significance Tests | Week #14: 29 April – 3 May |
Chapter 7: Inference for Distributions | ||
7.1 | Inference for the Mean of a Population | Week #15: 6 May – 10 May |
7.2 | Comparing Two Means | Week #16: 13 May –17 May |
Good luck and have a nice semester