PREREQUISITE:  Math 1432 (Calculus II)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a introduction to probability. Students will be taught counting techniques, conditional probability and random variables.
Outline:

• Overview, descriptive statistics
• Counting and introduction to probability
  
• Discrete random variables
  
• Continuous random variables
  
• Joint probability distributions
  
• Statistics and sampling distributions
  

TEXTBOOK:
Modern Mathematical Statistics with Applications, by Devore/Berk, Custom Edition (Publisher: Duxbury; ISBN: 0534404731).

HOMEWORK:
Homework will be given every Friday on line on the course News webpage and due for the next Thursday. Homework is composed of exercises linked to the previous week's classes. Only a part of the homework will be graded (I will let you know in advance which it is). Late homework will be rejected.
Your ten best homework grades will count out of 20% of your semester grade.

GRADING: ( A(>=90%), B(>=80% and < 90%), C(>=70% and < 80%), D(>=60% and < 70%), F(< 60%).
Three major exams and a final exam are given in this course (dates are subject to change).

Major exam 1	20 %	September 25 (Thursday)
Major exam 2	20 %	October 23 (Thursday)
Major exam 3	20 %	November 20 (Thursday)
Final exam	20 %	December 18 (Thursday) 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Homework	20 %	All the semester

COMMENTS:

• Homework will be given every Friday online on the course News webpage. It includes some exercises linked to the current week's classes that will not be graded, and one or two exercises due for the next Thursday that will be graded and reflect the difficulty level of the exams. Students will also be assigned textbook reading to prepare the next week's classes.

• The contents of exams will be specified one week in advance in class and on the News page. The exams will take place in 154 F during regular class periods. The final will also take place in 154 F. Please bring an ID card (or cougar card) at exams and final.

• News will be updated every Friday. Please, it is important that you read it every week.

• All dates provided on this page are subject to change. Please, keep yourself up-to-date by visiting the News webpage and the Academic Calendar. The teacher shouldn't be responsible for missing exams that are notified either on these webpages or in class.

• It is important that you learn every lesson and re-do the examples provided in class. You may learn the lesson first, then search the examples, and finally read the solution. You may always learn the current lesson before the next class. All the homework, including optional exercises and textbook reading, is crucial and must be done for you to be correctly prepared for exams.
  

• It is necessary that students be on time to class.

• Please, feel free to ask me questions whenever there is something you do not understand, in class, during my office hours specified above, or by appointment. It is my job to help you understand as much as I can.

MAKE-UP POLICY: Make-ups for missed exams will only be allowed for a university approved excuse in writing. Whenever possible, students should inform the instructor before an exam is missed. Students are required to notify the instructor by the end of the next working day after missing an exam or quiz. Otherwise, they forfeit their rights to a make-up.

SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY: Copying work done by others, either in-class or out of class, is an act of scholastic dishonesty and will be prosecuted to the full extent allowed by University policy. Collaboration on assignments, either in-class or out-of-class, is forbidden unless permission to do so is granted by your instructor.

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