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COURSE: MATH 3680.003
CLASS MEETS:
MW: 2:00pm-3:20pm in SAGE 330
Applied Statistics
INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Kiko Kawamura
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.math.unt.edu/kiko
Office: GAB 433
Phone: (940) 565-3386
FINAL EXAM DATE AND TIME: Monday May 11, 1:30-3:30pm
(http://essc.unt.edu/registrar/schedule/spring/final.html)
Required Text: Probability & Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences,
by J.L. Devore.
Office Hours:
MTWF: 9:00-9:50am
TR: 2:00-3:20pm
Request an appointment if you are unable to come during these hours.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PREREQUISITE: 3 hours, Descriptive statistics, elements of probability,
random variables, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression, contingency tables.
Prerequisite: Math 1710 and Math 1720 (bay be taken concurrently)
ATTENDANCE AND GRADING POLICY:
Average of Homework: 20%
Three Tests : 60% (20% each)
Final Exam : 20%
Attendance is not required for this class. However, students are responsible for all information given in class, regardless of
his/her attendance.
Final grades online access: www.my.unt.edu
DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR:
On any day, if you disrupt the class you will be asked to leave the classroom and marked absent. You may also be
reported for further disciplinary actions. Disruptive behaviors include --but are not limited to -- talking, making
inappropriate jokes, using phones in class, leaving class to answer phone, or performing other tasks that are not related to
class work.
Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness:
The Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness (SETE) is a requirement for all organized classes at UNT. You must
participate in this online short survey at the end of the semester.
ACCOMODATION FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:
The University of North Texas makes reasonable academic accommodation for students with disabilities. Students
seeking accommodation must first register with the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA) to verify their eligibility.
If a disability is verified, the ODA will provide you with an accommodation letter to be delivered to faculty to begin a
private discussion regarding your specific needs in a course. You may request accommodations at any time, however,
ODA notices of accommodation should be provided as early as possible in the semester to avoid any delay in
implementation. Note that students must obtain a new letter of accommodation for every semester and must meet with
each faculty member prior to implementation in each class. For additional information see the Office of Disability
Accommodation website at http://www.unt.edu/oda. You may also contact them by phone at 940.565.4323.
NOTES:
Students are responsible for meeting all university deadlines (registration, fee payment, prerequisite verification, drop
deadlines, etc). See the printed Schedule of Classes and/or University Catalog for policies and dates.
Required Text: Probability & Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, by J. L. Devore. There are two options for
purchasing this text. The second option is cheaper; however, this only provides temporary online access to the textbook,
so that you would neither be able to use a physical hard copy of the book this semester nor permanently add it to your
bookshelf after completing the course.
 Bundle: Text + Enhanced WebAssign + Start Smart Guide for
Students + Enhanced WebAssign Homework with eBook Printed
Access Card for One Term Math and Science. ISBN 978-1-11165549-5. Can be purchased for $191.49 from
www.cengagebrain.com. Can also be purchased at the UNT
Bookstore (price not available at this time).
 Book + Enhanced WebAssign. ISBN 978-1-285-85804-3.
Can be purchased for $75 from www.cengagebrain.com.
Strongly Recommended: Lecture notes for the semester can be
purchased from the Eagle Images Print Center for approximately
$20.
The Eagle Images Print Center is in room 124 of the University
Service
Building (USB), which located near the Fouts Field Parking Lot.
This is
not a convenient location, but offering them for sale elsewhere
would
increased the price of the lecture notes significantly. The Mean
Green
(stop 7 on the map) and Campus Cruiser shuttles both stop at USB.
You should enter through the north door (that is, the door that isn’t facing Fouts Field) to easily get to the Print Center.
Technology: You will be expected to bring to class --- including exams --- either a laptop computer with a spreadsheet
program (such as Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc) or else a calculator that can perform multiple statistical functions.
In class, I will demonstrate how to use Microsoft Excel and a TI-83 Plus to perform various statistical functions. If you
have some other kind of calculator, you are welcome to ask me before or after class about how to use its statistical
functions.
What You Should Do Immediately
Please read the Enhanced WebAssign handout for instructions about how to enroll yourself in the appropriate section of
Math 3680. In particular, you will need to visit www.webassign.net and use the following Class Key Code:
unt 1494 7433
Click here for further instructions about getting started with Enhanced WebAssign.
I strongly encourage you to get started with Enhanced WebAssign as soon as possible. If you delay, you run the risk of
unforeseen technical problems that could prevent you from completing the first assignments (both due on Friday,
September 5, with a bonus possible if submitted by September 3).
While Enhanced WebAssign is required for the course, it is my understanding that, at the start of the semester, you have a
14-day grace period to use Enhanced WebAssign for free. After this grace period, a code must be entered to continue
to use Enhanced WebAssign.
Student Responsibilities
Disruptive behavior that interferes with an instructor's ability to conduct a class or other students' opportunity to learn is
unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any instructional forum at UNT. Any student engaging in such behavior will be
directed to leave the classroom and may be referred to the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities to be considered
whether the student's conduct has violated the Code of Student Conduct. The university's expectations for students’
conduct apply to all instructional forums, including university and electronic classroom, labs, discussion groups, field
trips, etc.
• You should read over this syllabus carefully, as I will hold you responsible for the information herein.
• You are expected to read the chapters carefully, including the examples in the book.
• You are responsible for obtaining all handouts. If you are absent when handouts are given, it is your responsibility to
obtain copies.
• You should begin to work now. Frequent practice is crucial to the successful completion of a mathematics course.
Cramming at the last minute will certainly lead to failure. Typically, successful students would spend an hour or two after
each lecture with classmate(s) to review the lesson and work homework problems. Instead of waiting until the last
minute, such students work on the assignments, read their textbooks, and make learning notes daily.
• WARNING: If you are in academic trouble, or in danger of losing your financial support, or if your parent or guardian
is expecting a certain grade at the end of the semester... start working today! I will refuse to listen to any pleas at the end
of the semester. You will receive precisely the grade that you earn.
Test Schedule and Grading Policies
The following schedule is tentative and is subject to capricious changes in case of extracurricular events deemed
sufficiently important to the upper administration.
Three Tests:
Test 1: (Chapter 1-3): Monday, February 23
Test 2: (Chapter 4-7): Monday, March 30
Test 3: (Chapter 8, 9): Wednesday, April 29
Comprehensive Final Exam and time: Monday, May 11, 1:30-3:30pm
Grades:
A 90%-100%, B 80% - 89%, C 70% - 79%, D 60% - 69%, F below 60%
• Academic Dishonesty: Cooperation is encouraged in doing the homework assignments but not allowed on the
tests/exams. If you are caught cheating, you will be subject to any penalty the instructor deems appropriate, up to and
including an automatic F for the course. Furthermore, a letter will be sent to the appropriate dean. Refer to the
following university site for the official policy with regards to academic dishonesty. The website is:
http://vpaa.unt.edu/academic-integrity.htm.
• The grade of "I" is designed for students unable to complete work in the course but currently passing the course. The
guidelines are clearly spelled out in the Student Handbook. Before asking, you should read these requirements.
Exam Policies
• I expect to give tests on the dates listed above. However, these are tentative dates. I will announce the exact date of each
test in class.
• After a test is returned in class, you have 48 hours to appeal your grade. I will not listen to any appeals after this 48-hour
period.
• NO MAKE-UP TESTS WILL BE GIVEN. A test may be taken prior to the scheduled date. I request a week’s
notice for this accommodation via email. In the event of a schedule conflict with a university function, dental/physician’s
appointment, wedding, formal, etc., you must take the test early. If you do not take a scheduled test, a zero will be
recorded for that test and a notice may be sent through the registrar’s office.
There are three in-class tests. If your final exam score is higher than one of your in-class test scores, then that in-class test
score will be replaced with final exam score. If you miss an in-class test, a zero will be recorded for that test score and
your final exam score will replace that one zero. If you receive a zero for cheating on a test, the final exam score will
NOT replace that zero. The final exam score can count as 20% of the course grade or 40% of the course grade. Again,
NO MAKE-UP TESTS WILL BE GIVEN FOR ANY REASON EVER.
• The Final Examination will be comprehensive in the sense that problems may come from any sections that have been
covered during the semester.
• Your final exam can be exempted; if your course average before the final is 93.00 or higher, you will be given an A for
the course.
• I reserve the right to test you on problems which are generalizations of material covered in the class and/or in the text. In
short, the problems may not look exactly like the ones in the book.
• Everything that I say in class is fair game for exam material. You will be responsible for everything unless I advise you
to the contrary.
Homework Policies
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All homework assignments can be logging into www.webassign.net.
o Each part of each exercise can be attempted up to 10 times. In other words, you could submit answers to part
(a) of Exercise #1 up to 10 times, and then you could move on to attempt part (b).
o Your last submission will count as your final answer.
o You can save your work without using a submission.
o Some exercises will use randomization. In other words, it’s possible that every student will have slightly
different questions with accordingly different answers.
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Due dates
o Homework will be due every Friday at 11:59 pm.
o A 5% bonus will be awarded to students who complete their homework more than 48 hours before the due
date.
o If requested no more than a week after the original due date (i.e., by the following Friday at 11:59 pm), it is
possible to receive an automatic extension on homework through Enhanced WebAssign. Any work done after
the automatic extension can be submitted for half credit as long as it completed within 24 hours of the request.
• When computing the final grade, I will drop the three lowest homework grades before computing the average. I have
this policy in case you get sick, have a family emergency, etc., during the semester. You will still be responsible for the
material in such assignments during the examinations.
• Because of this policy, I will NOT give extensions on homework assignments, nor will I accept late assignments for any
reason whatsoever.
Course Topics
The following chapters and sections of the textbook will be covered according to the projected schedule below. Dates may
change as events warrant.
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Chapter 1: Overview and Description Statistics
o 1.1 Populations, Samples and Processes
o 1.2 Pictorial and Tabular Methods in Descriptive
Statistics
o 1.3 Measures of Location
o 1.4 Measures of Variability
Chapter 2: Probability
o 2.1 Sample Spaces and Events
o 2.2 Axioms, Interpretations, and Properties of Probability
o 2.4 Conditional Probability
o 2.5 Independence
Chapter 3: Discrete Random Variables and Probability
Distributions
o 3.1 Random Variables
o 3.2 Probability Distributions for Random Variables
o 3.3 Expected Values
o 3.4 The Binomial Probability Distribution
o 3.5 Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial Distributions
Chapter 4: Continuous Random Variables of Probability
Distributions
o 4.1 Probability Density Functions
o 4.2 Cumulative Distribution Functions and Expected
Values
o 4.3 The Normal Distribution
o 4.6 Probability Plots
Chapter 5: Joint Probability Distributions and Random Samples
o 5.4 The Distribution of the Sample Mean
o 5.5 The Distribution of a Linear Combination
Chapter 7: Statistical Intervals Based on a Single Sample
o 7.1 Basic Properties of Confidence Intervals
o 7.2 Large-Sample Confidence Intervals for a Population
Mean and Proportion
o 7.3 Intervals Based on a Normal Population Distribution
Chapter 8: Test of Hypotheses Based on a Single Sample
o 8.1 Hypotheses and Test Procedures
o 8.2 Tests About a Population Mean
o 8.3 Tests Concerning a Population Proportion
o 8.4 P-Values
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Chapter 9: Inferences Based on Two Samples
o 9.1 z Tests and Confidence Intervals for a Difference
Between Two Population Means
o 9.2 The Two Sample t Test and Confidence Interval
o 9.3 Analysis of Paired Data
o 9.4 Inferences Concerning a Difference Between
Population Proportions
Chapter 12: Simple Linear Regression
o 12.2 Estimating Model Parameters
o 12.5 Correlation
Chapter 13: Nonlinear and Multiple Regression
o 13.2 Regression with Transformed Variables
SPRING 2015 Tentative Schedule
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
1/19
MLK DAY
University Closed
1/20
FIRST DAY OF CLASS
1/21
Introduction
Section 1.2, 1.3
1/22
1/23
Last day to add or swap a
class
1/26
1/27
1/28
1/29
1/30
MATH LAB OPENS for
the semester
Section 1.3, 1.4
2/2
CENSUS DATE - Last day
to drop course with a “W”;
After this date instructor's
written consent required
Section 2.2, 2.4
2/9
Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Section 1.3, 1.4
2/3
Beginning this date a
student who wishes to drop
a course must first receive
written consent of the
instructor
2/10
2/4
Section 2.2, 2.5
2/5
2/6
2/11
Section 3.4, 3.5
2/12
2/13
2/16
Section 4.1, 4.2
2/17
2/18
Section 4.3
2/19
2/20
2/23
Exam 1 (Chapter 1-3)
2/24
2/25
Section 4.3, 5.4
2/26
2/27
3/2
Last day to drop a course or
withdraw from the semester
with a grade of “W”
Section 4.6, 5.5
3/3
Beginning this date
instructor may drop
students with grade of
“WF” for nonattendance
3/4
Section 5.4
3/5
3/6
3/9
Section 7.1, 7.2
3/10
3/11
Section 7.2
3/12
3/13
3/16
SPRING BREAK
University closed only on
this date
3/23
Section 7.3
3/17
3/18
3/19
3/20
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
3/24
3/25
Section 8.1
3/26
3/27
3/30
Exam 2 (Chapter 4-7)
3/31
4/1
Section 8.2
4/2
4/3
4/6
Section 8.2
4/7
Last day to drop a course
with consent of instructor.
Last day to drop with “W”
or “WF”
4/8
Section 8.3
4/9
4/10
4/13
4/14
Section 8.4
4/20
4/16
4/17
4/23
4/24
Section 9.1
4/21
Beginning this date a
student who qualifies may
request a grade of “I”
Section 9.2, 9.3 9.4
4/27
4/15
4/22
Last day for an instructor to
drop a student with a grade of
“WF” for non-attendance
Section 12.5
4/28
Section 12.2, 13.2
4/29
4/30
5/1
Exam 3 (Chapter 8, 9)
5/4
5/5
5/6
5/7
5/8
PRE-FINALS WEEK
Review
PRE-FINALS WEEK
PRE-FINALS WEEK
Review
PRE-FINALS WEEK
5/11
5/12
5/13
5/14
4:00 pm – MATH LAB
CLOSES for the semester
PRE-FINAL WEEK
5/15
FINALS WEEK
FINAL EXAM: 1:303:30pm
FINALS WEEK
FINALS WEEK
FINALS WEEK
FINALS WEEK
TERM ENDS