Math 425/525
(23436/23445)
Class
Times, Days, and Place: 12:00-12:50 MWF,
205
DEA
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Introduction to Probability and
Statistics (12th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: M:12:50-1:50pm and F:12:50-1:50am
(Otherwise, you
need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email: haowang@uoregon.edu
Web URL:
http://uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/425_WIN2010/425.html
Grading Policy
Your course grade is the sum of following performance scores: The homeworks will count as 15% of the course grade; The in-class quizzes will count as 20%; The midterm will count as 15%; and the final exam will count as 50%.
Quizzes: During the term, there are several in-class quizzes. The day of a quiz is not completely fixed. The duration of a quiz ranges from 20 to 50 minutes. The quiz scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. Generally there is no make-up quiz.
Homework: Homework questions and due date are posted in the following Tentative Syllabus of this web page which will be updated very often. Homework is due weekly before 2:50pm of each Friday or the date specified in the Tentative Syllabus. It is your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus each Thursday afternoon or the date before the specified due date in the Tentative Syllabus. Late handing in homework will not be accepted. One lowest homework score will be dropped and the remaining homework scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. You can discuss with other students while working on your homework problems, but copying other students' answers is not allowed, otherwise a penalty of score deduction may be given. Your solution to each homework problem should be legible and should describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. Please use 8.5" by 11" sheets to do your homework and don't forget to write down your first name, middle name and last name (In order to protect your rights to confidentiality of your papers, don't write down your student ID number on homework paper.) on each page. Your homework will be returned in class. Remaining unpicked homeworks will be delivered again in class. Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.
Tests: For this course, there are a midterm and a final exam. For each exam (including quizzes), you can bring a 8.5" by 11" sheet with formulae or useful notes for you. Your solution to each exam problem should be legible and describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. If an exam question is a multiple choice question, clearly mark one and only one choice for each question. All students take the final exam at the UO specified time. Generally there is no make-up quiz or exam except for serious illness with valid doctor's statement or other special excuse with valid document.
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. You are responsible for all the announcements, changes, course information, and topics that I cover in class. If you miss a substantial number of lectures without discussing the matter with me and without a valid excuse, your quiz score may be deducted.
Tentative Syllabus
(Updated on Dec. 12th, 2009)
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Week |
Topics
covered or remarks |
Sections
Covered |
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Week 1 1/4-1/8 |
pre-req-exam
on (1/4), |
1.1; 1.5,2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4, |
First week has no homework |
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Week 2 1/11-1/15 |
Events, sample space, simple event, calculating event probabilities, and counting rules, mn rule, permutation counting rule; combination counting rule, application examples |
4.1; 4.2; 4.3, 4.4 |
Homework #(1)
1.19(a,b,c,d); 2.10; 2.16; 2.22; 2.31. |
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Week 3 1/18-1/22 |
No Class on
Martin Luther King Holiday (1/18) |
4.5, 4.6, 4.7 |
Homework #(2) 4.1; 4.2; 4.5; 4.7; 4.26;
4.27; 4.31; 4.34; 4.35; 4.36; |
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Week 4 1/25-1/29 |
Bayes' rule and application examples, conditional prob. formulae and application examples, quiz #1 on Jan. 27th, 2010 |
4.7 |
Homework #(3) 4.42; 4.43; 4.54; 4.55; 4.58;
4.60; 4.63; 4.109; 4.113 |
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Week 5 |
Discrete random variable and their probability distribution, Binomial distribution, application examples of Binomial distribution, quiz # 2 on Feb. 3rd, 2010 |
4.8, 5.1, 5.2 |
Homework #(4) 4.62; 4.65; 4.66; 4.69; 4.70;
4.72; 4.73, 4.74; |
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Week 6 |
Continuous
random variables, |
6.1; 6.2; 6.3 |
Homework #(5) 4.77; 4.78; 4.83;
4.86; 4.87; 4.89; 4.90; 4.119; 4.138(a)(b); |
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Week 7 |
Midterm Exam
on Monday (2/15/2010, Cover until section 4.8, inclusive) |
6.3 |
Homework #(6)4.108; 5.8; 5.11; 5.23;
5.24; 5.26; 5.27; |
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Week 8 |
Normal approximation to binomial
distribution and applications,Sample
distribution,central limit theorem, |
6.4,7.3, 7.4, 7.5 |
Homework #(7)6.4; 6.7; 6.8; 6.10;
6.12; 6.13; 6.14; 6.15; 6.18 |
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Week 9 |
central limit
theorem, sample distribution of the sample mean, and applications, Quiz
# 3 on March 3rd. |
7.5 |
Homework #(8) 6.19; 6.22; 6.23; 6.31;
6.49; 6.50; 6.51; 6.60; 6.69 |
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Week10 |
Sampling distribution of sample proportion, review |
7.6 |
Homework #(9) 6.76; 6.77; 7.20; 7.24;
7.28; 7.29; 7.30;7.31; 7.32 |
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Office Hours after March 12th, 2010
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