MTH207-A Fall 2014 Home Page

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Class Schedule:T,Th 2:30-3:45
Class Location:Duffy 115
Professor:Dr. Eugene Quinn
  equinn1@stonehill.edu

General Information Announcements Syllabus Notes and Handouts Assignments Policies Grading Technology


Announcements

8/28/2014 Stonehill College is committed to providing all students equal access to learning opportunities. The Center for Academic Achievement is the campus office that works with students who have disabilities to provide and/or arrange reasonable accommodations. Students registered with The Center, who have a letter requesting accommodations, are encouraged to contact the instructor early in the semester. Students who have, or think they may have, a disability (e.g. psychiatric, attentional, learning, vision, hearing, physical, or systemic), are invited to contact The Center for Academic Achievement for a confidential discussion at 508-565-1033.


MTH207 General Information


Textbook: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver (ISBN 978-1-59420-411-1)

MTH207 is an introduction to the ideas and current issues in the area of probability and statistics. Topics will include:

Crab Nebula photograph courtesy of NASA


Assignments

Date DueAssignment
9/4/2014 Read the remainder of Chapter 1: A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction in the Silver text.
9/2/2014 Read the Introduction in the Silver text, plus pages 19-30 in Chapter 1: A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction
I will post some supplementary material by the weekend that will allow us to explore the chart on page 28.


Notes and Handouts

DateDescription




Grading


Grading in this course will be based on:

Your final grade will be determined as a weighted average of these items:

ComponentRelative Weight
Homework 60%
Quizzes20%
Cumulative final 20%




Policies


College Policies

All policies listed in the Academic Policies and Procedures section of The Hill Book will be strictly adhered to.

These include:

Additional Instructor's Policies



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