Course Requirements

Prof. Apfaltrer (contact information)

To benefit most from this course

You should

• reserve at least 6 hours per week outside the classroom for reading the material and doing the homework.
• do all the homework on time.
• be ready to read 30-40 pages of the book per week.
• have a BMCC email address and check it at least once per week.
• be familiar with the internet, how to browse and search online, how to scan and how to download software.
• have a personal computer to which you can download software.
• know how to login and navigate blackboard.
  • you should download R (free software), we will learn how to use some of its functions in our course.
  • you will need *MS Excel* or the free software OpenOffice. We will be using this software as well.

Homework

• Homework assignments are posted in the schedule.
• You will have homework assigned every week, and it will be due on Sunday at 11:59pm of the week it was assigned in. See the blackboard assignment tab for due date. No late homework will be accepted!
• Homework will be based on our textbook, sometimes you will need to download some additional files from this site.
• Exercises to be done in R will be indicated with an R next to the homework exercise number in the schedule
• Exercises to be done with a spreadsheet software (OpenOffice/Excel) will be indicated with an S next to the exercise number.
• Exercises to be done by hand, explicitly as the book indicates, are denoted with a T for text. This exercises would have to be scanned and uploaded as PDF documents through BlackBoard's Digital Dropbox. In Blackboard 8, assignments can be uploaded directly in the assignment page.
• Exercises could be denoted by more than one letter, for example by RST, in which case you would have to do the same exercise with R, with a spreadsheet software and by hand!
• If nothing is specified, you are free to do the exercises by hand, or with any computer software.
  • If done by hand, then you will need to scan it and save it in PDF format.
  • If done with computer software, the only acceptable formats are PDF, ODT, ODS, CSV, DOC, RTF, and TXT.

Quizzes

Quizzes will be given bi-weekly. They will be timed and will have to be solved individually. They are to be answered directly and accessed from the

Textbook

The required textbook is

• John E. Freund and Benjamin M. Perles, Statistics, A first Course, Eight Edition, Pearson, Hardcover.

It can be bought at the bookstore or online, for example here.
You will be required to read a chapter per week, and the homework will be based on the book.

Grading

Your grade will be split in the following way:

Homework	30%
Midterm Exam	20%
Final Exam	30%
Quizzes/Participation/Project	20%

Other info:

* the syllabus
* how to download software