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)
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Tentative
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Remarks |
Sections covered
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Homework due
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4/1--4/5 |
Matlab basic, help desk |
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#1(You can find homework questions |
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4/8--4/12 |
plotting, scattergram,
qq-plot, pp-plot, |
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#2(You can find homework questions |
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4/15--4/19 |
program for goodness-of-fit test |
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#3(You can find homework questions |
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4/22--4/26 |
Quiz #1 on
April 22nd |
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#4(You can find homework questions |
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4/29--5/3 |
Review program techniques |
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#5(You can find homework questions |
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5/6--5/10 |
Quiz#2 on May 6th |
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In the following, if only numbers are given, this means
that your homework questions are chosen from your textbook. |
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5/13--5/17 |
Midterm Exam on May
13th |
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#7(3.44; 3.50; 3.54; 3.58; 3.60; 3.62; 3.72; 3.74 ) due on 5/17. |
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5/20--5/24 |
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#8( 4.4; 4.10; 4.14; 4.20; 4.22; 4.26; 4.30; ) due on 5/24. |
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5/27--5/31 |
No class on (5/27)Memorial Day |
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#9(4.40; 4.46; 4.48; 4.50; 4.52; 4.58, 5.6; 5.8; 5.16 ) due on 5/31 |
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Office Hour before Final: |
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In Class Final Exam Part: 3:15pm-5:15pm Wednesday,
June 12, 2013, 442 MCK
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