It provides helpful hints and suggestions, the general protocol for handling homework assignments, and an outline of the testing and grading procedures. I hope you will find the course challenging, enjoyable, and informative. Biometry is a course where simply knowing the formulas is not sufficient. Unless you have actually learned to carry out statistical analyses on real data sets, you are not likely to be equipped to handle statistical problems when they occur in your own research. The average student will need about five hours per week in order to carry out the assignments.
Some students take more time, others less.
Your assignments will be carefully corrected and returned to you with comments by the TA who will point out what errors, if any, you have committed so that you can improve your procedures in the future. We keep a log of each problem that you have handed in and the quality of your work on each separate problem. This record in itself does not have much effect on your grade. In fact, if you meet all the other requirements listed below, you can obtain a highly satisfactory grade in this course without ever doing an assignment. However , few students manage to pass the course without doing the assignments.