Spring 2023 STA 2000 

@ Baruch College (CUNY)

This section of STA 2000 course is combined in-person and synchronous-online. Tuesdays we meet in room 10-175 (VC) and Thursdays we meet over Zoom. Both at 4:10-5:25PM. Exams and Quizzes will take place as indicated in the schedule below.

Office hours:

WEEK - BY - WEEK SCHEDULE

A DYNAMIC COURSE OUTLINE

WEEK / TOPIC

SYNCHRONOUS CLASSES

HOMEWORK

Before class, visit the Lectures page for class notes and videos. 

Tuesdays in room 10-175

Thursdays on Zoom

Homework and Solutions may be found on the Homework page link at the left. 

January 25 - First Day of Classes at Baruch 

Week 1

Intro to Business Statistics

Thursday January 26 Zoom Class: Getting Started

Tuesday January 31  All About Data

HW: Email me (See Bb)
Bb: Post your Intro to Our Class Blog

Week 2


Thursday Feb 2 Zoom Class:  Summarizing and Presenting Data
Lectures: Descriptives 1-2

Tuesday Feb 7:  Summarizing and Presenting Data Problem Session

HW: View All 4  Descriptives Lectures  before the Thursday Feb 9 Zoom Class

Week 3 

Thursday Feb 9 Zoom Class: Summarizing and Presenting Data (2 variables)
Lectures: Descriptives 3-4 (also 1-2) Q&A

 

February 12-13 College Closed

Week 3 continued

Tuesday Feb 14: Summarizing and Presenting Data (2 variables) Problem Session

HW: View Probability Lecture  before the Thursday Feb 16 Zoom Class

Week 4 

Thursday Feb 16 Zoom Class: Basic Probability
Q&A

 HW: View Probability Distributions Lecture  before the Thursday
Feb 23 Zoom Class

Feb 20 college closed

Tue Feb 21 Baruch Monday

Week 4 continued

Thursday Feb 23: Probability (continued) & Probability Distributions
Q&A

Week 5


Tuesday Feb 28: Probability and Expected Value Problem Session. Review for Quiz

Thursday March 2: QUIZ on Blackboard
(All topics thru Probability) 

HW: View Normal Probability Distribution Lecture  

Week 6  

Tuesday March 7Normal  Distribution

Thursday March 9: Sampling Distributions Q&A

 HW: View Sampling Distributions Lecture  before the Thursday
Mar 9  Zoom Class

Week 7

Tuesday March14: Review for Exam #1. Sampling Distributions Problem Session

Thursday March 16: Statistical Inference

  HW: Pre-View Statistical Inference / Estimation Lecture  before the Thursday
Mar 16 Zoom Class

Week 8

Begin Statistical Inference 

Tuesday March 21: Midterm Exam (All Topics thru Sampling Distributions)

Thursday March 23: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of µ 

 HW: ReView Statistical Inference / Estimation Lecture  before the Thursday
Mar 23  Zoom Class

Week 9


Tuesday March 28: Estimation and hypothesis testing using the  Z statistic. Problem Session

Thursday March 30: Estimation and hypothesis testing using the Student's t statistic. Q&A session.

HW: View "t Distribution" Lecture before the Thursday
Mar 30  Zoom Class

Week 10

Tuesday April 4:   The t Distribution Problem Session.
Inferences about Proportions 

 HW: View "Proportions" Lecture before the Tuesday April 4  Class

Apr 5-13 Spring Recess

Week 10 continued

 Tuesday April 18:  Sample Size Determination. Review for Quiz. Begin two sample tests.

 

Week 11


Thursday April 20  Quiz 2 (Topics: One-Sample Statistical Inference). On Blackboard

Tuesday April 25  Two-sample hypothesis tests Class Cancelled 

Week 12

Thursday April 27 Review for Exam #2 (statistical inference)

Tuesday May 2: Midterm Exam #2 (Statistical Inference - all topics). Exam will be ONLINE on Blackboard.

 HW: View all three "Two-sample Tests" Lectures before the Thursday
Apr 27  Class

Week 13

Thursday May 4: Correlation & Simple Regression

Tuesday May 9: Correlation & Regression. THIS CLASS WILL TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM.

HW: View "Correlation" and "Regression" Lectures before the Thursday
May 4 Zoom  Class

Week 14

Thursday May 11. Quiz 3 [Correlation & Regression] on Blackboard

Tuesday May 16 Zoom Class: Final Exam Review

 No work of any kind accepted after May 10

LAST DAY OF CLASSES AT BARUCH MAY 16

BARUCH FINAL EXAM PERIOD MAY 17-23

FINAL EXAM

Friday May 19 10:30-12:30
Date and time as per the College's final exam schedule

Comprehensive FINAL EXAM - Departmental

Final will be ONLINE, not in-person
You must log into Pearson.com with your login credentials in order to take the exam.

See Registrar's Final Exam Schedule