Instructor:

Mike Moran
Office: Room 2813
    Phone: 206-546-4569 (During office hours)
    Office Hours: 9:05-9:25 AM and 11:25 - 11:45 AM Daily
Web: www.mikeshoreline.com
E-mail: mmoran01@msn.com
Home Phone: 425-454-3183
Fax: 425-454-1878

Resources:

Text (Required):  Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis  3rd Edition by Roxy Peck, Chris Olson, and Jay Devore.(ISBN-13:978-0-495-11873-2)
WebAssign Access: (Required) This is a required web based homework system.  A prepaid access code comes with each book purchased new.  Access is free for first 14 days, so do not use the code until you are sure you will remain in the course.  Sold separately, access costs $25 per quarter.   Sign in information and homework details are at www.mikeshoreline/homework procedures.
TI-83 , TI-84 (Required).  TI-83 Graphing calculators can be rented at the Shoreline Bookstore for $20 per quarter.
Chapter Notes: PowerPoint files for each chapter includes copies of all of the overheads used in class.  Download from www.mikeshoreline.com.  Choose File-Print-Print What-Notes Pages so copy overhead is on top half of sheet, and bottom half has space for student notes.
TI-83 Worksheets:  These are instructions on how to use the statistics programs built in the calculator.  They must be download  from www.mikeshoreline.com.  
TI-83 Add-in Programs (Required).  These are statistics programs that need to be downloaded into the TI-83 Calculators by the instructor.  The add-in program descriptions are found on the web site under TI-83 Help - Add-in Programs.
 

Course Description:

Analysis of of data, elementary probability, inference testing for proportions, means, and counts, and correlation and linear regression.

Course Content:

1.  Statistics and Data Analysis Process
2.  Collecting Data
3.  Graphical Methods for Data
4.  Numerical Methods for Describing Data
6.  Probability
7.  The Normal Model
8.  Sampling Distributions
9.  Estimating Using a Single Sample
10. Hypothesis Testing using a single sample
11. Comparing Two Populations Treatments
12. Analysis of Categorical Data
5.   Correlation and Linear Regression

Grading:

Final Exam: 30%.  The final exam with cover all of the material in the course.  School policy requires that you take the final exam to get credit for the course.

Tests: 30%.  There will be three tests.  You may drop the lowest test score.  With notification prior to test time, a student, for good reason, may schedule an alternate time to take the test no later than the day following class.  Tests taken on the day following class are worth a maximum of 95 points.  No more than one test my be rescheduled.   Answers to test problems must show all the necessary steps (steps not easily done without paper) to reach the answer to get full credit.

Homework 30%.  Homework assignments during a week are due on Monday at 10 PM of the following week.  Homework assignments average three per week, each having an average of 4 problems.  Homework assignments submitted on time are worth a maximum of 100 points.  Two extensions of up to three days may be used if requested by Friday at 10PM of the following week.  Problems completed in the first extension are worth 85%, and in the second extension, 70%. You may drop the lowest homework 3 homework scores . 

Classwork 10%.  Classwork consists of work that is done in class as part of the development of new material and turned in at the end of class.  Up to three students may collaborate on classwork problems, but each student must submit a separate paper.   There is no make-up for missed classwork.  You may drop the lowest classwork score.

Grading Scale Summary (A complete grade table is shown in Homework Procedures):
Weighted Average      Final Grade        
            90% +                        4.0                      
            80%                           3.0                      
            70%                           2.0                      
            60%                           1.0                    
            57%                             .7                       
            <57%                         0.0                     

This course qualifies for Student Option Grading – Pass-Fail or Pass-No Credit. You must have Pass-Option Form to Registrar before the end of the first half of the quarter.  Students who abandon the course without an official withdrawal may be given a grade of "V" which counts as 0.0 grade in the grade point calculation.

Other:

Attendance:  School policy requires students to attend all classes.  Common courtesy dictates that students arrive on time and stay to the completion of each class.  Cell Phones or IPODS may not be used in class.
Cheating:  The School has a policy of no cheating.  For example, copying tests, changing test answers after grading and presenting for credit will result in a zero grade on the paper which cannot be dropped from the final grade.  Penalties for cheating my range up to a zero class grade.