Home Page for STATS 2D03
Term 1, 2012/13
Table of Contents
- Announcements and Updates
- Instructor
- Lectures
- Tutorial
- Course Description
- Grading Scheme
- Academic Dishonesty
- Policy Notes
- Schedule
Announcements and Updates
The first lecture is at 11:30 am on Thursday, September 6th in
HH/109
Click here to obtain the
course syllabus.
Click here to
obtain the official course
outline.
The first tutorial is on Monday
Assignment #1 is
due on Friday, September 21st in class. Please hand in your
assignment to me (Min-Oo)
at the beginning of the lecture period (11:30 am, HH/109)
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Instructor
Lectures
- Tu, Th, Fr 11:30 -12:20
in
HH/109
Tutorials
- Mo 10:30
-11:20 in HH/109
- Teaching Assistant: t.b.a.
- T.A. office hours:
Course Description
Description from Undergraduate Calendar
Combinatorics, independence, conditioning,
Poisson-process, discrete and continuous distributions with statistical
applications, expectation, transformations, moment-generating
functions, joint, marginal and conditional distributions, covariance
and correlation, central limit theorem.
Text Book:
"A First Course in Probability" by Sheldon ROSS, 8th
ed., published by Pearson, Prentice Hall.
Course Objective:
We will cover the material from Chapters 1 to 8 and selected sections
from Chapter 9 of the prescribed text book. Students are responsible
for reading the relevant material and also for working out most of the
exercises in the book. For a weekly update on what is covered in the
course see the course syllabus
Course Work:
1. Tutorials: There will be a weekly
tutorial.
2. Assignments: There will be five
written assignments to be handed in on the due dates that will be
announced in class. Late assignments will not be graded.
3. Homework: In
addition
to
the
assignments, there will be extra homework problems,
which are not graded, Students should discuss these problems during the
tutorial. Click here for Homework..
4. Tests: There will be two
one-hour tests. The exact dates and locations will be announced in
class and this course home page.
- TEST #1 Tuesday, October 11th, 19:00 - 20:00
- TEST #2 Tuesday, November
8th, 19:00 - 20:00
5. Final
Examination: This will be scheduled
by the Registrar’s office during the exam period in December.
Grading Scheme
- Assignments:
20%
- Tests:
30%
- Final
Exam: 50%
Academic
Dishonesty:
You are expected to exhibit honesty and
use ethical behaviour in all aspects of the learning process. Academic
credentials you earn are rooted in principles of honesty and academic
integrity. Academic dishonesty is to knowingly act or fail to act in a
way that results or could result in unearned academic credit or
advantage. This behaviour can result in serious consequences, e.g. the
grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the
transcript (notation reads: “Grade of F assigned for academic
dishonesty”), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university. It is
your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty.
For information on the various types of academic dishonesty please
refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, located at http://www.mcmaster.ca/academicintegrity
The
following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:
1. Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is
not one’s own or for which other credit has
been
obtained.
2. Improper collaboration in group work.
3. Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and
examinations.
Other
Policy
Notes:
1. Only the standard
McMaster calculator Casio fx 991MS+ can be used for the tests and the
final examination.
2.
If
you
are
absent
from the university for a minor medical reason, lasting
fewer than 5 days, you may report your absence, once per term, without
documentation, using the McMaster Student Absence Form
Absences
for
a
longer
duration or for other reasons must be reported to your
Faculty/Program office, with documentation, and relief from term work
may not necessarily be granted. When using the MSAF, also report your
absence to me (the course instructor M. Min-Oo) immediately (normally
within 2 working days) by email (minoo@mcmaster.ca) and contact me in
person to learn what relief may be granted for the work you have
missed, and relevant details such as revised deadlines, or time and
location of a make-up exam. Please note that the MSAF may not be used
for term work worth 30% or more, nor can it be used for the final
examination.
3.
The
instructor
and
the university reserve the right to modify or revise
information contained in this course during the term. The university
may change the dates and deadlines for any or all courses in extreme
circumstances. If either type of modification or revision becomes
necessary, reasonable notice and communication with the students will
be given with explanation and the opportunity to comment on changes. It
is the responsibility of the student to check their McMaster email and
course websites weekly during the term and to note any changes.
Schedule
of
Topics
(the numbers are
chapters and sections from the text book)
Week 1 (06/09 to
07/09): 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Week 2 (10/09 to 14/09):
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Week 3 (17/09 to
21/09): 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Week 4 (24/09 to 28/09):
3.4,
3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Week 5 (01/10 to
05/10): 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
Week 6 (08/10 to 12/10):
4.9, 4.10, 5.1, 5.2
Week 7 (15/10 to
19/10): 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Week 8 (22/10 to 26/10):
5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2
Week 9 (29/10 to
02/11): 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7
Week 10 (05/11 to 09/11): 7.1,
7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.7
Week 11 (12/11 to
16/11): 7.5, 7.6,, 7.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2
Week 12 (19/11 to 23/11): 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Week 13 (26/11 to 30/11): Review