Instructor Information

Lecturer: TBA

Email: TBA

Office hours: by appointment

Overview

Probability and Statistics constitute the mathematics of uncertainty. This is an introductory course that gives the students’ knowledge on both descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include graphic and numerical representations of various types of data; probability and statistics, discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling and estimations; statistical inferences.

Credits

4

Contact hours

60

Required Text(s)

Peck, Olsen andDevore, Introduction to Statistics andData Analysis, 3rdedition,Brooks/Cole.

Grading Policy

Midterm is worth 30% of the final course grade, the homework is worth 30%, and the final exam is worth 40%.

Course Assistants

The CA will run a weekly one-hour problem session on the relevant material. You are invited to attend as many of these problem sessions as you like. Their times and locations will be announced in the first class.

Homework

There will be an assignment due at the beginning of each class covering the  material from the previous day and introducing some of the material from the day on which it is due. No late homework will be accepted, except for the last one. You are encouraged to make sure of the following  resources: your classmates, course assistants  and the textbook. When you work  in  a team, you should write down all people's name in your term.

Exams

There will be one midterm and one final exam. The times will be posted or announced later. If you must miss a midterm exam because of an approved conflict, please contact me as soon as possible, and no later than one week before the exam.

Grading Scale

Academic Honesty

Feng Chia University defines academic misconduct as any act by a student that misrepresents the student’s own academic work or that compromises the academic work of another.  Scholastic misconduct includes (but is not limited to) cheating on assignments or examinations; plagiarizing, i.e., misrepresenting as one’s own work any work done by another; submitting the same paper, or a substantially similar paper, to meet the requirements of more than one course without the approval  and consent  of the  instructors concerned; or sabotaging another’s work within these general definitions. Instructors, however, determine what constitutes academic misconduct in the courses they teach. Students found guilty of academic misconduct in any portion of the academic work face penalties that range from the lowering of their course grade to awarding a grade of E for the entire course.