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Course Description

The main goal of this class is to introduce the basic ideas of probability and statistics with emphasis on applications to the life sciences and to everyday life. While we will learn how to do some calculations by hand, the primary goal is understanding of concepts, including the ability to interpret results.

Instructor: Lelys Bravo de Guenni

Office: Baskin Engineering 365B

Email: lbravo@soe.ucsc.edu

Phone: 831-459-1653 (email is preferred)

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:30-3:30 pm or By Appointment

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 08:00-9:35 am, Oakes Academic 105

Required Text: Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, M. M. Triola and M. F. Triola, Pearson (2006).

Additional Information:

We will be using the Top Hat (www.tophat.com) classroom response system in class. You will be able to submit answers to in-class questions using Apple or Android smartphones and tablets, laptops, or through text message. Top Hat will require a paid subscrip- tion. A full breakdown of all subscription options available can be found here: www.tophat.com/pricing.

Our Top Hat Website is : https://app.tophat.com/e/409978

Our Top Hat course code is: 409978

The questions posted in class can be answered, but they are not graded until the following class. This will give you the opportunity to review the questions and check the correct answers until next class. In the following class, questions from the previous class will be opened as a homework. You can answer them while you are in class and they will be graded. After class the questions will be closed.
 

Computer Labs: 

Enrollment in AMS 7L is a co-requisite. Material will be linked, but administratively 7L is a separate course and you will receive a separate grade for 7L. This lab in on-line. Please see the web page for your lab sections. All questions, especially administrative ones,about AMS 7L should be answered by Lab Instructors. The Lab instructors are: Yifei Yan and Cheng-Han Yu.

Homework:

Homework will be assigned every Thursday, but will not be collected or graded. Answers to the odd numbered problems are in the back of the book. If you feel it would help, you are encouraged to work together on homework. But remember that you have to take the homework quizzes individually, so the point of the homework is to learn the material.

Teaching Assistants:

  • Bohan Liu (bliu47@ucsc.edu). Office hours: Tu, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, BE 312B
  • Sharmistha Guha (shguha@ucsc.edu)
  • Alexander Terenin (aterenin@ucsc.edu). Office hours: Fr 2:00 - 4:00 pm, E2-480
  • Chelsea Lofland (clofland@ucsc.edu). Office hours: Wed 3:00 - 4:00 pm, BE-312C/D
  • Raquel Barata (rbarata@ucsc.edu). Office hours: Mo, 11:00 - 12:00, BE 312 C/D; Th, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, BE 312 C/D

 

Discussion Sections:

Please note: Sections will start on Monday September 26, 2016.

TAs will work through additional examples and answer questions. Sections are mandatory. All the quizzes and exams will be passed back in your enrolled section.

Section    Days         Time                           Room                     TA                                 TopHat Code

02A          Mo  12:00AM-01:05PM      J Baskin Engr 372         Raquel Barata                  824616              
02B          Th   05:20PM-06:25PM      J Baskin Engr 372         Sharmistha Guha             289267         
02C          Th   06:40PM-07:45PM      J Baskin Engr 372         Sharmistha Guha             852467
02D          Fr   10:40AM-11:45AM      J Baskin Engr 372         Alexander Terenin           404783
02E          Tu   01:30PM-02:35PM      Porter Acad 148           Alexander Terenin           766626
02F          We  08:00AM-09:05AM      Porter Acad 148           Sharmistha Guha            399293   

MSI Sections:

Jennifer Lundberg (jelundbe@ucsc.edu):
Monday 10:40-11:40 Oakes Learning Center
Tuesday 9:50-10:50 ARC 202
Wednesday 9:20-10:20 ARC 203
Friday 1:20-2:20 ARC 202

Keira Delaney (krdelane@ucsc.edu):
Monday 7:10-8:10 ARC 203
Tuesday 1:30-2:30 Oakes Learning Center
Wednesday 2:40-3:40 ARC 202
Thursdays 3:20-4:20 Crown 201