MATHEMATICS 2210 / 6150

Class Ref. No. 20185 / 20405

Winter, 2006

T Th 6:00–7:50, Room 206 State Hall

Prof. B. Schreiber

Office

Room 1089 Faculty/Administration Building

Office Hours: Mon. 11:00–12:00, Tues. 4:30–5:30, or by appointment

Telephone: (313) 5778838

Electronic Mail: URL: http://www.math.wayne.edu/~bert

Course URL: http://www.math.wayne.edu/~bert/courses/2210

Texts

1.   R.V. Hogg and E.A. Tanis, Probability and Statistical Inference, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006.

2.   The Student Edition of Minitab for Windows CD-ROM, ver. 12, Addison-Wesley, 1998 (this is a self-contained, menu-driven software package running under Windows). Other versions/sources of Minitab may be substituted for this one.

3.   Recommended: R. Meyer and D. Krueger, A Minitab Guide to Statistics, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001.

Examinations Approx. Time Sections Covered % of Grade

Exam 1 (Week 6) Chap. 1, 2 20%

Exam 2 (Week 12) Chap. 3, 4, 5 20%

Final Exam (Week 15) Chap. 1–6, 8, 9 25%

Computer Assignments 20%

Quizzes 15%

The dates of the examinations listed here are tentative. Precise testing dates will be announced in class. Homework will be assigned, and many problems will be worked in class, but no homework will be collected. More specific information on grading will be provided during the first class meeting. Final grades are based on accomplishment, not effort.

Quizzes

Quizzes, lasting 15–20 minutes, will be given weekly, on Tuesdays. Exceptions to this, such as immediately after an exam, will be announced in class. The quizzes will cover current material being covered in class.

Computer Experiments

A series of computer experiments will be assigned throughout the course, using the Minitab statistics and probability software. Each student will be expected to complete the experiments by himself/herself and to submit reports containing print-outs of all assigned output, answers to all questions posed, and all appropriate analysis. A print out of the list of commands executed to obtain the output will be helpful in pinpointing errors. No computer experiment reports will be accepted after the date due. Although some directions for the use of Minitab will be supplied in class, students will be expected to read manuals and Help screens and deduce appropriate command sequences on their own. The computer experiments are to be done either in the Mathematics Computer Assisted Instruction Laboratory, in Room 31 State Hall, or at workstations on or off campus. See the instructor for more details.


Mathematics 2210 / 6150

Winter, 2006

Makeup Examinations

Makeup examinations will not be given, except under unavoidable circumstances. In cases of illness, death in a family, and so on, you must provide a note from a professional involved (doctor, funeral director, etc.). "My car broke down, and I did not consider the examination important enough for me to take a taxicab" is not a legitimate excuse. In all cases where a makeup examination is in order, the student is responsible to inform the instructor before the test if at all possible. No make-up quizzes will be given.

Registration and Withdrawals

Examinations and computer assignments will only be graded for students properly registered for the course. Once you have taken an examination, you are assumed to be participating in the course and will not receive an X grade for any reason. You may withdraw for academic reasons at any time, as allowed by University regulations. Once the instructor has signed a withdrawal form, however, he assumes you have withdrawn from the class. No further examinations will be graded, unless the form is returned to the instructor.

Cheating

All incidents of academic irregularities on examinations will be handled in the most severe way. This includes viewing the work of other students, sharing answers with others, or consulting unauthorized papers or books. Evidence of cheating will lead first to a "zero" on the examination in question and, most likely, to an "E" in the course with no option for withdrawal. The Dean of the student's college will be informed immediately for possible further disciplinary action.