MATH 262

Statistical Methodology
Spring 2019

Instructor:     Dilek Koksal

Room: SA-105(Faculty of Science A-Block), ext: 2132
 E-mail : dilek@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
 Office Hours: Wednesday 10:40-11:30 and Friday 14:40-15:30

Assistant:

Class Schedule:

             Section 01         Wednesday          9:40 - 10:30         Room # B 112

                                       Friday         10:40 -12:30         Room # B 112

Textbook:

Statistics Principles and Methods 5-th Ed.  Richard A. Johnson & Gouri K. Bhattacharyya, Wiley

Exams & Grading :

1st Midterm (25%)
                     Date:  March 14, 2019 ( Thursday )
Time: 17:40

      2nd Midterm (25%)
                      Date:  April 18, 2019 (Thursday ) Time:  17:40                    

Final Exam (34%) Will be scheduled...

Attendance : Attendance will be taken regularly.

Homework ( 10% ) 5 homework . Homework assignments will be posted to Moodle on Wednesday of homework weeks (See syllabus below), they will be collected one week later and solutions of the homework questions will be emailed to the students.

Quizzess ( 6% ) 3 quizzes.

IMPORTANT

· Student will be qualified to take the final exam if his/her total of midterm grades is at least 40 out of 200.

· Students who do not have least total of 40 out of 200 will be given an FZ grade.

· Students who have missed a midterm exam and have valid, well-documented excuse can take a makeup of it. A single makeup exam will be given few days after the second midterm exam.

· Reserved 4-th hour will be used in some weeks, this will be announced in the class.

§ Usage of a statistical software such as MINITAB is encouraged.

· This course is not a regular math course! It involves qualitative thinking and more words than other mathematics courses. 

Syllabus:  (Tentative)

Week                            Subjects

1. Feb. 4 Organization and Description of Data

2. Feb. 11 Counting Rules. Probability

3. Feb. 18 Conditional Probability and Independence (Hw1) 

4. Feb. 25 Random variables (Quiz 1)

5. March. 4 Continuous Random Variables. The Normal Distribution. The Normal Approximation to the Binomial (Hw 2)

6. March 11 Review, Applications & the First Midterm

(Thursday, March 14, 2019 @ 17:40)

7. March 18 Sampling Distributions. The Central Limit Theorem.

8. March 25 Point and Interval Estimation of a Population Mean (Hw 3)

9. April 1 Testing Hypotheses about a Population mean. Inferences about a Population Proportion (Quiz 2)

10. April 8 Small-Sample Inferences for Normal Populations. Student's t Distribution (Hw 4)

11. April 15 Review, Applications and the Second Midterm.

(Thursday, April 18, 2019 @ 17:40)

12. April 24 Inferences about the Standard Deviation (The Chi-squared distribution).

13. April 29 Comparing Two Treatments - Independent Random Samples. Matched Pair Comparisons. (Hw 5)

14. May 6 Linear Regression. The Method of Least Squares. (Quiz 3)

15. May 13 Analysis of Categorical Data.

& FINALS...