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Week hours:4 Graduate Program: Master in Statistics Professor: Henry Mendoza Rivera. E-mail: hmendozar@unal.edu.co Skype:hmendozar Lectures: 7:00 AM-9:00 AM, Wednesdays and Fridays in Building 405 Room 313 Oce Hours: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesdays and Fridays in Building 405 Oce 333. Please send an e-mail a day before to make your appointment.
Methodology
The course methodology will be based on activities such as lectures, discussions, homework.
Grading
Test 1 Test 2 Final Exam Homeworks Quizzes Percentage 20 20 30 20 10 Date Week 4: Class 2 Week 9: Class 2 Week 16: Class 1 Monday after posted Contents All covered topics la fecha All covered topics All All topics covered on the semester
Important Remarks
1. Academic integrity:
For this course, you should work mostly independently on the homework. You may consult the instructor or other students while working on the homework, but you must acknowledge this help by making a note on your homework. Also, you must write your nal solutions independently and may not copy homework from other students or any other source.
2. Homework:
Homework will be due on Monday at 11:55 PM after a week when the homework was posted. You have to attached a .zip le with the .pdf and LaTeX les in the option menu called Assignments in the Learning Management System used by the university: http://www.campus.virtual.unal.edu.co. You can log in by entering your email user and the corresponding password. Late homework will not be accepted. Homework will count for 20 percent of your course grade. Along with your individual homework, another feature of the course will be team homework assignments. Each of the team problems will require considerable thought and a complete, well-written solution. Your grade for each team homework assignment will be assigned to the team as a whole, so everyone in your group will be responsible for each others learning of the material.
3. Quizzes:
There will be unannounced short (5-minutes) quizzes during class at random times throughout the semester. Quizzes will usually be given near the end of class, but may be given at the beginning of class occasionally. Your performance on these quizzes will count for 10 percent of your grade. Some quizzes will be posted in the Learning Management System used by the university . None of these quizzes may be made up.
4. Software:
LaTeX To write in Latex you can download and install: 1. MikTeX, the LaTeX distribution is the core of the system. It contains the most important programs needed for generation of DVI, Postscript and PDF, and all additional packages. Download from http://www.miktex.org/2.9/setup (90 - 1000 MB) 2. The package Ghostscript http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs905w32.exe (10 MB) 3. The package GSview http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/ ghost/gsview (3 MB) 4. The LaTeX editor package. You can use one of the following: Textudio, Texmaker, Lyx, Texniccenter Statistical program R Some homework will require calculations using the statistical program R. You can download it from http://www.r-project.org/
5. Bonus Points:
Each academic activity for bonus points will give you at the most 100 points. One you complete 5 bonus points, you can change the total score on these bonus points by a grade quiz. That is, for example is you get a total of 500 points and you have some Quiz gradet 200, you will ask the professor to change it by 500. Then your new Quiz grade will be 500 instead of 200. Note: An academic activity for bonus points can be: Quiz corrections, test corrections, lecture class notes, exercise class, or any assigned academic activity assigned by the professor. To be valid and participate for bonus points you have to send them by BlackBoard in the menu option called Bonus and attach on it the pdf and Latex le.
6. Internet Resources:
Most course information will be posted on BlackBoard or through e-mail. It is your responsibility to check these resources on a regular basis.
7. Study skills:
Useful videos about Study Skills
8. This Document:
This policy sheet is tentative and is subject to change. Any changes will be announced in class, through e-mail, and on BlackBoard, and an updated version of the syllabus will be posted on BlackBoard or Dropbox.