Statistics 301, Lecture 2,May 30–June 23, (Summer) 2006Professor Wardrop1. Teaching StaffName Section Time Classroom Office* Phone E-mail*Bob Wardrop Lecture 2 12:15–2:45 B115 Van Vleck 1155 263-3304 wardropDeyuan Jiang Disc. 321 3:00–3:50 6314 Soc Sci 1335 263-5948 jiangQi Tang Disc. 322 3:00–3:50 6322 Soc Sci 1276 TBA qitang*Offices are in MSC (1300 University Avenue); email suffix is @stat.wisc.edu;Office hours: TAs: 11:15–12:05 M-F; Professor Wardrop by appointment.2. Materials. The text Statistics: Learning in the Presence of Variation is required. The textbookcontains brief solutions to its odd-numbered exercises. The text is available at the University BookStore, 711 State Street.You need a calculator with a square root button.3. Webpage. My web address ishttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/˜wardrop/You will need to print four documents from this page. Under “Courses:” click on “Statistics 301,Lecture 2, Summer 2006” and print the documents listed below.• Project Assignment• Course Notes• Extra Homework• Practice Exam Questions and SolutionsThere is a red-cover Revised Student Study Guide (RSSG). (There is also a very old yellow-coverStudent Study Guide which is useless for this course.) The RSSG contains study suggestions foreach chapter, detailed solutions to the odd-numbered exercises in the text (the textbook contains briefsolutions to the odd-numbered exercises), approximately 200 sample exam questions with solutions,and additional mathematical derivations.In my opinion, the RSSG is not as useful as the Practice Exam Questions and Solutions. The RSSGis out-of-print, but there might be a few copies in town. Alternatively, you may print it from mywebpage, under the heading with its name.4. Syllabus. The course will cover Chapter.Section numbers 1.1–1.3, 2.1–2.5, 3.1–3.5, 5.1–5.4, 6.1–6.3,6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1–12.4, 15.1–15.3, 16.2, 8.1, 8.2, and 13.1–13.4 of the textbook.5. Daily Routine. For lecture bring:• The text, and• Course Notes (needed for several chapters).Bring your calculator, text, Extra Homework and Course Notes to discussion. Homework exerciseswill be assigned for the sections of the text that are covered in lecture and will be due at the begin-ning of the next day’s lecture. The primary purpose of the discussion is to provide you with help incompleting the homework.6. Course Grade. You can earn a maximum of 200 points in this course.• Homework: 24 points. Homework will be graded on a ‘+’ or ‘−’ system. If an assignmentis submitted on time and it appears that you tried to complete it, then you will receive a ‘+’;otherwise, you will receive a ‘−’. Your first ‘−’ does not affect your grade, but you will losetwo points for each additional ‘−’ that you receive.• Projects: 36 points. Thirty-six points are possible for two projects; 18 for one. See the Projectshandout for details.• Exams: 140 points. There will be an in-class midterm exam, and an in-class final exam. Yourcalculator, text, RSSG, Course Notes, Extra Homework, and your own lecture and discussionnotes may be used during the exams.I will compute four scores for you:• S1= HW + P1+ P2+ E1+ E2• S2= 200(P1+ P2+ E1+ E2)/176• S3= 200(HW + P1+ E1+ E2)/182• S4= 200(HW + P2+ E1+ E2)/182Your course score will be the maximum of S1, S2, S3, and S4.Below is the relationship between course score and final grade for my Fall, 2004, class. These bound-aries are for illustration only; almost certainly the boundaries for this class will be different.Score Freq. Grade186.0–197.8 36 A181.5–185.9 17 AB163.5–181.4 38 B147.8–161.0 18 BC121.0–145.5 13 CTotal
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