MTH395 Fall 2010 Home Page

Class Schedule:T,Th 2:30-3:45 Hubble Deep Field Image
Class Location:Duffy 205
Professor:Dr. Eugene Quinn
  equinn1@stonehill.edu

General Information Announcements Syllabus Notes and Handouts Assignments Policies Grading Technology


Announcements

12/17/2010 A study guide for the final exam is posted.
9/9/2010 Documentation for the computational portion of the midterm exam is posted.
9/9/2010
M A T H   C L U B   M E E T I N G   T O D A Y

The first meeting of the MATH CLUB for the fall 2010 semester will be today in

Duffy 209 at 4:00.

All are welcome to attend (you can bring your friends too!)

7/16/2010 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 508-565-1208.


MTH395-A General Information


Textbook: Mathematical Statistics with Applications by Wackerly, Mendenhall, and Scheaffer (ISBN 0-495-11081-1)
MTH395 will consist of selected material from the first seven chapters of the text.

Assignments

Assignment NumberDate DueAssignment
12Tuesday 12/7Assignment 9   (LaTeX source)
11Tuesday 11/30The theoretical portion of the midterm exam   (LaTeX source)
10Thursday 11/18The computational portion of the midterm exam
9Friday 11/5Assignment 8   (LaTeX source)
8Friday 10/22Assignment 7   (LaTeX source)
7Friday 10/15Assignment 6   (LaTeX source)
6Tuesday 10/12Computational Exercise 1   (LaTeX source)
5Thursday 10/7Assignment 5   (LaTeX source)
4Thursday 9/30Assignment 4   (LaTeX source)
3Thursday 9/23Assignment 3   (LaTeX source)
2Thursday 9/16Assignment 2   (LaTeX source)
1Thursday 9/9Assignment 1   (LaTeX source)


Notes and Handouts

DateDescription
12/17/2010Supplementary material
11/7/2010Lecture notes for Weibull, logistic, and lognormal
11/2/2010MAPLE worksheet from today's class
9/5/2010Basic set theory review  (LaTeX source)
Bare bones LaTeX example  (LaTeX source)




Grading


Grades will be based on a midterm exam, a cumulative final exam, and written assignments.

The relative weight of each will be as follows:

Written Assignments55%
Midterm Exam30%
Final Exam15%



Technology


We will make use of the following software in this course:

LaTeX

Assignments will be required to be typeset using LaTeX. The American Mathematical Society has standardized on LaTeX as the method of choice for producing mathematical documents.

Students who took Abstract Algebra or Real Analysis last year are already familiar with LaTeX because it was required in those courses. If you are new to LaTeX, chances are you will find it easy to pick up enough to satisfy the requirements in this course. LaTeX is an extremely useful skill and the effort required to learn it pays off handsomely.

If you do not already have it, you should download and install LaTeX. See my LaTeX resource page for details. Depending on your platform, you should install either MiKTeX (windows), MacTeX (mac), or TeX Live (unix/linux). All of these install the software required to translate, display, and print LaTeX documents, but none of them provide facilities for producing LaTeX source documents (minimally, a decent text editor).

Consequently, you should consider installing Texmaker, which provides a graphical editor for LaTeX source documents. With Texmaker, you can construct a LaTeX document without having to type the actual LaTeX symbols. If you plan to install Texmaker, install LaTeX first so that Texmaker can automatically configure the interface to LaTeX.

R

R is a free statistical package based on the S package, which was developed at Bell Labs. See the detailed instructions for downloading and installing R and a brief discussion of the rationale for using R. We will use R to generate data from various probability distributions.

GNU Octave

GNU Octave is a free, high-level language geared towards numerical computations. It provides some of the features of the popular MATLAB commercial software. We will find it useful for automating computations involving vectors and matrices. You can download and install it from the GNU Octave website. Windows and Mac users should download and install the appropriate binary (precompiled) version as the native versions require you to compile from the source code.

MAPLE

MAPLE is a commercial computer algebra system sold by the Maplesoft corporation that we will occasionally use to automate some of the calculus tasks we encounter. It is available in computer labs on campus, but you cannot install it on your own computer unless you purchase it (this is NOT a requirement; Under a program called the "MAPLE adoption program", Maplesoft offers discounts to students in registered courses. I will register MTH395 so you can qualify for the discount if you choose to purchase MAPLE. Again, you are NOT required to purchase MAPLE for this course, and we will probably use it only occasionally). Depending on options and discounts, MAPLE costs around $100 for the student version.




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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