Welcome To

Stat 200 Elementary Statistics

Faculty: Dr. Munir Mahmud

Office: A-207

Phone: (570)450-3534

E-mail: mxm84@psu.edu

Office Hours: MWF 11–11:50 a.m. & By Appointments

Text Book:

1. Elementary Statistics,-- by Mario F. Triola, Pearson Education Inc., Addison Wesley, 9th Edition, 2004, ISBN 0-201-77570-0

2. Excel Student Laboratory Manual And Workbook – by, Johanna Halsey and Ellena Reda, Pearson Education Inc. Addison Wesley, 2004. ISBN: 0-321-12206-2

Prerequisites:2 Units of Algebra

(as long as you have 2 units of HS algebra, you should be fine)

Grading:

3 Assignments.

1 Midterm.

Comprehensive Final Exam.

Make-UP Policy: As a general rule “No Make-up” exam would be given.

Attendance and Class Participation & Homework completion.

Distribution of Points:

Assignments 30% Midterm 30% Final Exam 30%Attendance & Participation 10%--------------------------------------------------Total 100%

How would the point grade be converted into a letter grade?

General Rule:

100-90 = A 76-73 = C+ 89-87 = A- 72-70 = C 86-83 = B+ 69-70 = D 82-80 = B 79-77 = B- Below 60 = F

Important Requirement:

The message portion should contain your Name and Student #.

Within the first two weeks of classes, you have to send me an e-mail with the subject heading “Stat 200, Sec 002”.

Academic Integrity:

All students are expected to act with civility, personal integrity; respect other students' dignity, rights and property; and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their own efforts. An environment of academic integrity is requisite to respect for self and others and a civil community.

Academic integrity includes a commitment to not engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of dishonesty include cheating or copying, plagiarizing, submitting another persons' work as one's own, using Internet sources without citation, fabricating field data or citations, "ghosting" (taking or having another student take an exam), stealing examinations, tampering with the academic work of another student, facilitating other students' acts of academic dishonesty, etc.

Academic dishonesty violates the fundamental ethical principles of the University community and compromises the worth of work completed by others. A student should avoid academic dishonesty when preparing work for any class. If charged with academic dishonesty, students will receive written or oral notice of the charge by the instructor. Students who contest the charge should first seek resolution through discussion with the faculty member or the campus Director of Academic Affairs. If the matter is not resolved, the student may request a hearing with the Commonwealth College Committee on Academic Integrity at the campus.

Sanctions for breaches of academic integrity may range (depending on the severity of the offense) from F for the assignment to F for the course. In severe cases of academic dishonesty, including, but not limited to, stealing exams or "ghosting" an exam, students may receive a grade of XF, a formal University disciplinary sanction that indicates on the student's transcript that failure in the course was due to a serious act of academic dishonesty. The University's statement on Academic Integrity from which the above statement was drawn is available at: http://www.psu.edu/dept/oue/aappm/G-9.html