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Course Description
The course is designed for planners. All efforts will be expended to maximize the use of
planning-related examples. The course, intended to improve quantitative reasoning, will cover
both descriptive and introductory inferential statistics. The course objectives are aimed at
enabling students to:
• Understand principles of measurements and limits of each.
• Be able to organize and represent sample data sets using measures of central tendency
and dispersion.
• Understand basic inferential/inductive statistical concepts.
• Be able to interpret and draw conclusions from summarized data.
By the end of the course, students are supposed to make more informed decisions in daily life by
understanding the limitations of generalizing from small datasets and limited daily experiences.
They should also be critical (i.e., evaluate conclusions drawn by others) of planning reports that
use elementary statistics and be ready to take advanced studies in statistics.
Reading Materials
The required text for this class is as given below:
Sanders, Donald H. & Robert K. Smidt. 2000. Statistics: a first course. McGraw-Hill
science/Engineering/math 6th edition.
Course Requirements
Prerequisites
Knowledge of high school algebra.
Teaching Methodology
Instructions will consist of classroom lectures, problem solving/computations, and discussions.
The instruction time will be divided equally among these class activities.
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Evaluations and Grading Weights
Your performance in this class with respect to how you have mastered the material taught will be
your personal effort. You will not be competing with others. However, you are encouraged to
work with others to improve your performance.
Grading criteria will be as follows:
The grading system follows the standard university grading scales as follows:
Excellent 90-93 A- 93.4-100 A
Good 80-83.3 B- 83.4-86.6 B 86.7-89.9 B+
Satisfactory 70-73.3 C- 73.4-76.6 C 7.7-79.9 C+
Poor 60-63.3 D- 63.4-6.6 D 66.7-69.9 D+
Fail //////// //////// 0-60 F //////// ////////
Communications
Official communications will be through UC email and blackboard. You may contact, XXX, my
GA for this class, by email at XXXX.
Home works
Homework will be posted on blackboard (on a Monday) and will be due in class the following
Monday. You are expected to complete your homework on schedule. Late home works will not
be accepted. These assignments can be done individually or in teams. Home works should be
professionally and neatly prepared.
The GA will be available to assist you with home works. Home works will account for
40% of your total grade.
Exams
There will be two exams during the quarter. No make-up exams will be given for work or
personal conflicts. Also, no extra credit assignments to raise grade will be given during the
quarter or after the quarter has ended. As such, you need to plan yourself and your schedule
accordingly. Each of the two exams will account for 25% of the total grade. Review sessions
will be carried out by me upon request.
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Cheating
College and University plagiarism rules apply in full, without exceptions. Get more information
from http://www.uc.edu/conduct/Code_of_Conduct.html.
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Binomial experiment and probabilities (combinations, probabilities, expected value,
variance, standard deviation).
Poisson (binomial) distribution, normal (continuous) distribution)
Calculating probabilities for the standard normal distribution (Z), computing probabilities
for any normally distributed variable, finding Z-scores from given probabilities.
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