MATH 264 STATISTICS for SOCIAL SCIENCES
2006-2007 FALL COURSE INFORMATION
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Instructor: Natalay Zheltukhina Office Hours: Tuesday 12:40-13:30, Friday 14:40-15:30 Office Location: SA 111b E-mail Address : natalya@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
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TEXTBOOK: J.E.Freud, B.M.Perles, "STATISTICS: A First Course", Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004
SYLLABUS
| WEEK-1 | Frequency Distribution. Graphical Presentations of Data. |
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| WEEK-2 | Numerical Measures of central tendency and variability. |
| WEEK-3 | Chebyshev's Theorem. |
| WEEK-4 | Counting Principles, Permutation, Combinations. |
| WEEK-5 | Sample Space and Events. Some Rules of Probability. Conditional Probability. Independent Events. |
| WEEK-6 | Random Variables. Probability Distribution. The mean and standard deviation of Probability Distribution. |
| WEEK-7 | No classes on Monday-Wednesday |
| WEEK-8 | The Binomial Distribution. The Hypergeometric Distribution. |
| WEEK-9 | The Normal Distribution. The normal approximation to Binomial Distribution. |
| WEEK-10 | Random Sampling, Sampling Distributions. |
| WEEK-11 | Central Limit Theorem |
| WEEK-12 | Confidence Intervals for Means. |
| WEEK-13 | Confidence Intervals for Means. |
| WEEK-14 | Tests of Hypotheses. |
| WEEK-15 | Tests concerning means |
75% Attendance is Obligatory
LECTURES: You are expected to keep silence unless you have a question. You are encouraged to ask questions as soon as something is unclear to you. Even if you have the textbook, I strongly advise you to take lecture notes.
EXAMS, QUIZZES: Two midterms exams and a final exam will be given. Also 5 quizzes will be given during the semester. NO MAKE-UP exams will be given unless proper documentation for the absence is received.
GRADING
| Component | Percentage |
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| Midterm 1: Essay/written, | 25 |
| Midterm 2: Essay/written, | 25 |
| Final: Essay/written | 35 |
| Quiz | 15 |
| TOTAL | 100 |
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: No cheating during the exams and quizzes are allowed. Cheating includes but not limited to both providing and copying information during the exam and quizzes. It is considered as a discipline violation. Hence in case of cheating, both parts will certainly get a score of zero from the corresponding exam or quiz and disciplinary action will be applied.