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Dear Dr. Szilagyi -- Your course outline doesn't indicate the total number of
instructional hours available for your course, nor the mathematical and
statistical prerequisites expected of your students.  In the USA, a one
semester course would meet for approximately 3 hours per week for 15 weeks
(trimester system) or perhaps 18 hours per week (semester system).
Evidently, your course must be conceived as a year long course because of
the number of topics planned.  In the USA, this would be regarded as a very
ambitious syllabus for a year long course.  It would be extremely difficult
for students who had no previous exposure to statistics.  The typical
American student would be poorly prepared for your course, but our standards
for mathematical and statistical training are of students in the life
sciences are perhaps lower than in your country (and much too low, in my
opinion!).  An additional issue to consider is the experience of the
students in computing and the availability of software to perform the tests
and analyses that you wish to teach.  Will you have assistants to oversee
laboratory sessions for computing and data analysis?
        Your course should be a good one if the students are very well
prepared.  Good luck with it.

Paul J. SMITH, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland at College Park
Email:Paul_J_SMITH@umail.umd.edu (ps26)
Phone: (301) 405-5104