Logistics

Instructor

Professor Susan Holmes, susan { at} stat.stanford.edu , 102 Sequoia Hall, 725 1925.
Office Hours: Thursday 3pm-4pm, Sequoia Hall, 102.
and by email appointment.

TAs

Brit Katzen-Turbull bkatzen { at} stat.stanford.edu ,
Sequoia Hall 229 Monday 1-3pm bkatzen {at } stat

Karen Kapur, kkapur {at } stat
Sequoia Hall 204
Wednesday 1.-3

Nancy Zhang nzhang { at} stat.stanford.edu,
Sequoia Hall 206

Yuxue Jin yuxuejin { at} stanford.edu,
Sequoia Hall 141
Office Hours: Wednesday 9-11 am in Sequoia 141.

Charles Mathis cmathis { at} stanford.edu,
Sequoia Hall 227
Office Hours: Sequoia Hall, 227 and Sequoia 211, Friday 1-3pm

Class is mandatory, there will be quizzes periodically.

Class attendance $+$ quizzes	10 %
Midterm(if counted)	20 %
Homeworks	30 %
Final	40 %

The final grade will be :

$$Max(100\times \frac{ Quizz\times 10 +\; Midterm\; \times 20 +\; H... ...100\times \frac{Quizz\times 10 +\; Hws \times 30 +\; Final \; \times 40}{80})$$

The midterm date is fixed to Thursday 11th November, (in the evening in a different classroom) you will be allowed 2 pages of formulas and notes and a calculator.

The date the final is due is Thursday December 9th, if you will be leaving campus early, please do not take the class this quarter.

Sections and R Lab

Monday 5-6 pm 60-61A
Tuesday 3-4 pm 540-108
Wednesday, 5-6 pm 60-61A

R Lab: This Friday at 2.00 in Sequoia 211.

Auditors

If you want to audit the class, you need to commit to attend all lectures, please email me so I can add you as a guest on the coursework website so you the announcements and materials.

Website

Many links and material will be made progressively available at:
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/courses/s141/

Time and Place:TTh 11-12.15pm , 380-380c

Textbooks

The texts are available at the bookstore, and at the Maths/Comp. Sci. library.
Required: Statistics for the Life Sciences, Samuels and Witmer, 3rd Edition.

Can be oredered at Amazon.com

Used as low as 5$

Recommended: Introduction to Statistics with R (Peter Dalgaard) or download an Introduction to R manual from: An introduction to R