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• Textbook: Introduction to Statistics Using OpenOffice.org Calc
• Recommended materials: Scientific calculator.
• Statistics course office hours: TBA.
  Instructor: Dana Lee Ling.
  Email: dleeling@comfsm.fm cc: dana@mail.fm
  Web site: http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/statistics/statistics.html
  Work: 320-2480 extension 228 / Home phone: 320-2962.
• Attendance: Seven absences results in withdrawal from the course. A late is one third of an absence. Thus any combination of absences and lates that adds to seven will result in withdrawal. For example, twenty-one lates would result in withdrawal.
• No betelnut in class nor on campus except in the cultural huts.
  No spitting over the balcony!
• Quizzes are given every Friday that there is not a test. Quizzes and tests can and do occur on a Wednesday wherein Friday is a holiday.
• Grading policy:
  Homework is worth 2 points and is checked at the start of the next class.
  Quizzes are worth on the order of 7 to 25 points each, with an average of around 12.5 points.
  Spring 2008 data:
  Test one was worth 23 points.
  Test two, the midterm, was worth 33 points.
  Test three was worth 27 points.
  The final was worth 58 points.
  Spring 2008 generated 414 total points.
  No one quiz, test, midterm, nor even the final will have a large impact on your final grade. You have do consistently well across all quizzes, tests and the project to succeed in this course.
  Grading is based on the standard College policy: Obtain 90% of the points or more to obtain an A, 80% to 89% for a B, and so forth.
  Points map to student learning outcomes via questions on publicly published quizzes, tests, and examinations wherein each question can be linked back to a course or program learning outcome.
• Statistics project: The statistics project is a statistical study involving gathering data and assembling a report using spreadsheet and word processing software. The final report is done using word processing software with inserted tables and charts from a word processing program. The statistics project was worth 58 points spring 2008.
• Course outline: http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/statistics/ms150_2007.html
• Academic Honesty Policy: Cheating on an assignment, quiz, test, midterm, or final will result in a score of zero for that assignment, quiz, or examination. Due to our cramped quarters, the course operates by necessity on a system of personal integrity and honor.
• Course student learning outcomes assessment: Based on item analysis of final examination aligned to the outline. During term student assessment occurs at the end of each week, see above.
• Learning outcomes in brief: Students will be able to...
  1. Program Learning Outcomes:
     Define mathematical concepts, calculate quantities, estimate solutions, solve problems, represent and interpret mathematical information graphically, and communicate mathematical thoughts and ideas.
  2. Course Learning Outcomes:
     
     1. Identify levels of measurement and appropriate statistical measures for a given level
     2. Determine frequencies, relative frequencies, creating histograms and identifying their shape visually
     3. Calculate basic statistical measures of the middle, spread, and relative standing
     4. Perform linear regressions finding the slope, intercept, and correlation; generate predicted values based on the regression
     5. Calculate simple probabilities for equally likely outcomes
     6. Determine the mean of a distribution
     7. Calculate probabilities using the normal distribution
     8. Calculate the standard error of the mean
     9. Find confidence intervals for the mean
     10. Perform hypothesis tests against a known population mean using both confidence intervals and formal hypothesis testing
     11. Perform t-tests for paired and independent samples using both confidence intervals and p-values