Statistics

Math 1342

Instructors:  Nancy Long and Diane Locke

Nancy Long’s contact information:          office phone:  903-675-6335; home phone:  903-677-3390; cell phone:  903-2898-6559; email:  NLONG@TVCC.edu

Course Description:  This is a first course in statistics, designed to meet the needs of business, education, and behavioral science students. Included are the following topics and their applications in various fields:  statistics vocabulary, graphs, mean, variance, standard deviation, probability, binomial distribution, normal distribution, statistical inference, and linear regression.

Exams:  Seven 100 point tests (including a comprehensive final exam), approximately evenly spaced throughout the semester will be given. The final exam may count twice – replacing any student’s lowest test score if it is higher, as well as counting for itself.

 Homework:    Homework will be assigned for most class meetings and will be accepted for full credit at any time on the due date. Homework that is late but turned in by the time of the unit test on that material will receive reduced credit (8 points maximum instead of 10) unless OK’ed by the instructor, at the discretion of the instructor, when a student provides a very good reason for the lateness of the work. The one lowest homework score will be dropped before a percent correct is calculated. This homework percent, will then count 100 points toward the final grade. No substitution can be made for the homework grade.

 Grading:   Students will need the following totals to receive the respective final grades

                                    A     720 - 800      
                                    B     640 - 719      
                                    C     560 - 639      

                                    D     480 - 559      

 

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