Math 463/563
(34407/34415)

Class Times, Days, and Place: 2:00-2:50pm, MWF, 442  MCK
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: A Second Course in Statistics: Regression Analysis  (6th Edition) by W. Mendenhall et al.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: Monday 1:00-1:50pm;  Friday 1:00-1:50pm;  (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@uoregon.edu
Web URL: pages.uoregon.edu/haowang/teaching/463_SPR2013/463.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: For this special course which is a synergetic union of computer programming and statistics,  sometimes a homework or an exam  will consist of one or more big project(s) depending on the ongoing teaching topics. 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 class 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 the class. Remaining unpicked homeworks will be picked up from my office which is located at 11 DEA.  Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.

Exam:  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. All students take the final exam in 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.

Overview:  We know that computer techniques make statistics more powerful. This course is just designed for students who need the synergetic union of computer techniques and statistics in their current and future research and work.  We will first introduce the calculation techniques, algorithms, and programming in Matlab language to handle basic calculation in statistics. This gives students the ability to modify the existing statistics software packages. Then,  we will continuously improve our Matlab programming skills and same time study more statistics topics such as  simple linear regression, multiple regression, model building, regression pitfalls,  residual  analysis,  and some special topics and so on.
 
 

                                             Tentative Syllabus
                             (Updated on April 25, 2013)
 

Tentative Date 

Remarks 

Sections covered in Class 

Homework due date

4/1--4/5

Matlab basic, help desk
Matlab basic, some Matlab syntax
Data input, data modification, sorting, 
calculation of  mean, variance, skewness 
kurtosis, construction of histogram

 

 #1(You can find homework questions 
in the following homework question subdirectory ) due on  4/5.

4/8--4/12

plotting, scattergram, qq-plot, pp-plot, 
function-plot
randon number generation
programming and simulation

 

 #2(You can find homework questions 
in the following homework question subdirectory ) due on 4/12.

4/15--4/19

program for goodness-of-fit test
program for analysis of variance
program for contingency table
 

 

#3(You can find homework questions 
in the following homework question subdirectory  )  due on 4/19.

4/22--4/26

 Quiz #1 on April 22nd
 Program design and
simulation of  random walks
 Review different programs

 

 #4(You can find homework questions 
in the following homework question subdirectory   )  due on 4/26.

4/29--5/3

 Review program techniques
3.1;3.2
 3.3; 3.4

 

#5(You can find homework questions 
in the following homework question subdirectory   )  due on 5/3.

5/6--5/10

Quiz#2 on May 6th
3.5; 3.6
 3.7; 3.8
 3.9, (leave 3.10 for student   reading);3.11

 

In the following, if only numbers are given, this means that your homework questions are chosen from your textbook. 
Otherwise, detailed description of the questions are given. 
#6( 3.12; 3.20; 3.22; 3.26; 3.30; 3.40)  due on 5/10.

5/13--5/17

 Midterm Exam on May 13th
4.1; 4.2; 4.3
4.4; 4.5; 4.6

 

#7(3.44; 3.50; 3.54; 3.58;  3.60;  3.62; 3.72; 3.74 ) due on 5/17.

5/20--5/24


4.7; 4.8; 4.9; 4.10; 4.11;
4.12  and examples

 

  #8( 4.4; 4.10; 4.14; 4.20; 4.22; 4.26; 4.30;   )  due on 5/24.

5/27--5/31

 No class on (5/27)Memorial Day Holiday
5.1; 5.2; 5.3,
 5.4; 5.5; 5.6
 Review
Quiz #3 on May 31st

 

 #9(4.40; 4.46; 4.48; 4.50; 4.52; 4.58, 5.6; 5.8; 5.16 )  due on 5/31

6/3--6/7

 
 No lectures this week.
Taking home part of  final exam
 (a big project) is due by 10:00am, June 7th
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Office Hour before Final:

(1) 1:00pm --  2:00pm  June 10th
(2) 1:00pm --  2:00pm  June 12th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Class Final Exam Part:  3:15pm-5:15pm Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 442 MCK


 



 
 
 
 

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