Instructor: Bing Li; Telephone: 865 1952; Office: 410 Thomas Building.

Grader: Ke Yang; Telephone: 863-3238; Office: 316 Thomas Building.

Time: MWF 8:00 am - 8:50 am

Place: Chambers 111.

Office hours: MWF 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm.

Text: Probability and Statistical Inference, 4th edition, Hogg & Tanis, Macmillan Publishing Company.

Course: The goal is to provide students with the basic concepts and methods of probability that are important in statistical analyses, together with some elementary but useful statistical tools. Particularly, these include descriptive data analysis; basic concepts of probability; discrete distributions; continuous distributions; some commonly used statistics and their distributions.

Examinations: There will be two midterms and a final exam. They will be closed book and in class. You may bring a page of prepared notes for the exams. The schedule for these exams will be announced sufficiently in advance. Make-up exams are possible but students must demonstrate sufficient and verifiable reasons, and make the request at least a week before the exam.

Assignments: Homeworks will be collected every one or two weeks, depending on the pace of the discussions. Late homeworks are generally unacceptable, but exceptions can be made should special difficulties arise, in which case a note from a professional, such as a doctor, is necessary.

Evaluation: Roughly, assignments will weight 15%, two midterms 45%, final 40%. However, students' overall performance in class also plays an important part in evaluation, and this will be based on my subjective judgment, so that the above percentage points are only approximate.

Bing Li
1/12/1998