Fall 2024 STA 2000

@ Baruch College (CUNY)

sylSTA2000_FA2024.pdf

The above is MY syllabus for our section, FTRA. During Fall 2024 there will be a departmental final exam. The common syllabus for all sections of STA 2000 may be found TBD. Please do let me know if you find any significant differences between the common syllabus and the one above.

As we go along I may note the very few things that may be explained differently in the online lecture notes in this website and the assigned textbook

Our section of STA 2000 is a hybrid in-person / synchronous-online class. Tuesdays we meet in room 8-155 (VC) and Thursdays we meet over Zoom, both at 2:30-3:45PM. Exams and Quizzes will take place as indicated in the course outline below.

Office hours: Tuesdays 11:00 AM – 12:30PM and by appointment + by appointment. Office: Room 11-228

email: Prof.Friedman @ gmail.com

WEEK - BY - WEEK SCHEDULE

A DYNAMIC COURSE OUTLINE

WEEK / TOPIC

SYNCHRONOUS CLASSES

HOMEWORK

Before class, read the assigned chapters in the textbook; visit the Lectures page for class notes in pdf format, narrated slides, and videos. Then do the Homework assigned.

Homework is due by week, not by date / time. All work for this course may be found on Blackboard under Assignments.

August 28 - First Day of Classes at Baruch

Week 1

Thursday August 29 Zoom Class: Getting Started

Tuesday Sept 3 All About Data

Email me (as per Bb Assignment)
Post your Intro to the Our Class Blog on Bb
Purchase textbook and access
Read Ch. 1

Week 2

Thursday Sept 5 Zoom Class: Summarizing and Presenting Data

Tuesday Sept 10: Summarizing and Presenting Data Problem Session

Read Ch. 2

Week 3

Thursday Sept 12 Zoom Class: Summarizing and Presenting Data (2 variables)

Tuesday Sept 17: Problem Session Review for Quiz #1

Read Ch. 3

Week 4

Thursday Sept 19 Quiz 1 (tentative)
Introduction, Data, & Descriptive Statistics

[What to Know for Quiz 1]

Tuesday Sept 24: Probability

Thursday Feb 22 Baruch Monday

Week 5

Thursday Sept 26: Probability and Expected Value Problem Session.

Tuesday Oct 1: Probability (continued) & Probability Distributions

Read Ch. 5

October 2-4 No classes at Baruch College

Week 6

Tuesday Oct 8: Normal Distribution

Thursday Oct 10: Sampling Distributions

Read Ch. 7

October 11 - 12 No classes at Baruch College

Monday October 14 College Closed

Tuesday October 15 - Baruch Monday

Week 7

Thursday Oct 17: Synchronous class cancelled today. Review relevant lectures.

Review for Quiz.

Tuesday Oct 22: Quiz 2 (tentative)
Probability and Probability Distributions

Week 8

Thursday Oct 24: Synchronous class cancelled today. Review relevant lectures.

Statistical Inference - Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of µ

Tuesday Oct 29:

Ch. 8, 9

Week 9

Thursday Oct 31: Estimation and hypothesis testing using the Z statistic. Problem Session

Tuesday Nov 5 : Estimation and hypothesis testing using the Student's t statistic. Q&A session.

Week 10

Thursday Nov 7: The t Distribution Problem Session.
Inferences about Proportions

Tuesday Nov 12: One-sample inference, Continued

Week 11

Thursday Nov 14: Sample Size Determination. Begin two sample tests.

Tuesday Nov 19: Two-sample hypothesis tests

Ch. 10

Week 12

Thursday Nov 21: Review for Quiz

Tuesday Nov 26: Quiz 3 (tentative)
Statistical Inference

Thanksgiving Recess November 28-29 College Closed

Saturday Nov 30 No classes at Baruch

Sunday Dec 1 - College Closed

Week 13

Tuesday Dec 3: Correlation & Simple Regression

Thursday Dec 5: Correlation & Simple Regression

Ch. 12

Week 14

Tuesday Dec 10: Quiz 4 (tentative)
Correlation & Regression

Thursday Dec 12: Review for Final Exam

No work of any kind accepted after Dec 10

LAST DAY OF CLASSES AT BARUCH Dec 14

BARUCH FINAL EXAM PERIOD Dec 15 - 21

FINAL EXAM

Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:30-12:30
Date and time as per the College's final exam schedule

Comprehensive FINAL EXAM - Departmental

Final will be ONLINE, TBA

See Registrar's Final Exam Schedule

Also see the Baruch College Fall 2024 Academic Calendar

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