STA1503/102/3/2017

Tutorial letter 102/3/2017

Distribution Theory I
STA1503

Semesters 1 & 2

Department of Statistics

CONTENTS
1. Lecturer
2. Assignments - General remarks
3. Study material for STA1503

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1 Lecturer
Your lecturer for 2017 is

Ms. MA Managa
Room: 6-16, Unisa Science Campus
GJ Gerwel Building
Tel: 011 670 9252
Email: managma@unisa.ac.za

If you encounter difficulties, either with the assignments or with the content of the textbook or in
the study guide, please feel free to contact me directly. If you are not successful in this, please
phone the departmental secretary at 011 670 9255. She will assist you with information about the
availability of a lecturer. If you want to have discussions with me, please phone first to make an
appointment. Your lecturer has many different obligations and by making an appointment, you can
avoid a disappointment when you arrive at the main campus.

2 Assignments - General remarks

The closing dates for the submission of the assignments are:

Assignment for Sections covered Due Date Unique Sem. mark

SEMESTER 1 number contribution
1 Chapters 2, 3 and 4; 15 March 2017 794575 45%
Study units 2, 3 and 4
2 Chapters 5 and 6; 12 April 2017 897232 45%
Study units 5 and 6
3 Questionnaire 28 April 2017 822366 10%

Assignment for Sections covered Due Date Unique Sem. mark

SEMESTER 2 number contribution
1 Chapters 2, 3 and 4; 18 August 2017 656067 45%
Study units 2, 3 and 4
2 Chapters 5 and 6; 14 Sept 2017 853238 45%
Study units 5 and 6
3 Questionnaire 6 October 2017 827335 10%

Assessment of assignments

Please note:

Although students may work together when preparing assignments, each student should submit
his/her own work. Your lecturer will know if you have copied from another student or from the
solutions and even if it is not picked up, a supersemester mark followed by failing the examination
is a sure sign! So, if you simply copy the solutions from another student, you are bluffing yourself
you will not have that opportunity in the examination! You need at least 50% to pass each
assignment and the marks you obtain for the two assignments are added and changed to a mark

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out of 20 to form your semester mark. The semester mark (out of 20) is added to your examination
mark (out of 80) to form your final mark. .

Please read your tutorial letters.We do not bombard you with unnecessary information

3 Study material for STA1503

Wackerly, Dennis D; Mendenhall, William III and Scheaffer, Richard L;
Mathematical statistics with applications(2008), 7th ed

You have to buy this book. Please consult the list of official booksellers and their addresses listed
in Your Service Guide @ Unisa. For shorter reference, we use WM&S when we need to draw
your attention to the prescribed book. If you have any difficulties in obtaining books from these
bookshops, please contact the Unisa

Enjoy your studies and work on a regular basis!

Ms MA Managa