Fall 2020 STA 2000
@ Baruch College (CUNY)
NOTE: FALL 2020 SEMESTER IS ONLINE.
Want to see Prof. Friedman? Email her to schedule online office hours
WEEK - BY - WEEK COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK / TOPIC
SYNCHRONOUS CLASS
Thursdays @ 2:30pm
HOMEWORK
August 26 - First Day of Classes at Baruch
Week 1: Intro to Business Statistics
Aug 27 Zoom Class: Getting Started
HW: Email me (See Bb) Bb: Post your Intro to Our Class Blog
Week 2 : Descriptive Statistics
Sep 3 Zoom Class: Problem Session
HW: Measuring Data
September 7 - Baruch College Closed
Week 3 : Study for Exam #1 [Introductory material, Descriptive Statistics]
Sep 10 Zoom Class: Review for Exam #1
HW: Descriptive Stats
Bb: Begin work on Making Statistics Relevant (Discussion 3) DUE Week 8
Week 4 : Basic Probability [After Exam #1]
Sep 17 EXAM #1 on Blackboard
September 18 - 20: No Classes at Baruch College
Week 5: Probability Distributions Normal Distribution
Sep 24 Zoom Class: Problem Session
HW: Probability
September 28: No Classes at Baruch College
September 29: Baruch Monday
Week 6 : Continue work on Normal Distribution; Sampling Distributions
Oct 1 Zoom Class: Problem Session
HW: Expected Value
HW: Normal Distribution
Week 7 : Study for Exam #2 [Probability thru Sampling Distributions]
Oct 8: Zoom Class: Review for Exam #2
HW: Sampling Distributions
October 12: Baruch College Closed
October 14: Baruch Monday
Week 8: Intro to Statistical Inference, Z tests
Oct 15: EXAM #2 on Blackboard
Bb: Making Statistics Relevant (Discussion3)
Week 9: Student's t distribution
Inferences about Proportions
Oct 22 Zoom class
HW: One-sample Z tests
Week 10: Sample Size Determination
Study for Exam #3 [One-Sample Statistical Inference]
Oct 29 Zoom class: Review for Exam #3
HW: One-sample t tests
HW: Proportions
Week 11: Two-sample tests
Nov 5: EXAM #3 on Blackboard
Week 12: Correlation and Regression
Study for Exam #4 [2-Sample Tests, Correlation, Regression]
Nov 12 Zoom Class: Review for Exam #4
HW: Two-sample tests (I,II,III)
Week 13: Start reviewing for the final exam
Nov 19: EXAM #4 on Blackboard
HW: Correlation
HW: Regression
No homework of any kind accepted after November 25
BARUCH FRIDAY Nov 25
BARUCH THANKSGIVING RECESS Nov 26-29
Week 14: Study for the Comprehensive Final Exam [all topics]. If you do well on Exams 1-4 you may be exempt from the final.
Dec 3 Zoom Class: Review for final exam
BARUCH LAST DAY OF CLASSES Dec 9
BARUCH FINAL EXAM PERIOD Dec 14-20
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday December 15 @ 3:30-5:30 pm
Comprehensive FINAL EXAM on Blackboard
1 Also see the Baruch College FALL 2020 academic calendar
3 Late Discussion posts will not be graded. No exceptions here.