| STAT 200 (Blended Learning) - UPDATED | |||
| Course Name: | Elementary Statistics | ||
| Course Description: | Statistics is the art and science of using sample data to make generalizations about populations. The topics covered in this course include:
- methods for collecting and summarizing data - methods for evaluating the accuracy of sample estimates - techniques for making statistical inferences Users of statistics -- researchers, government agencies like the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, companies like the automakers and drug industry, etc. -- make extensive use of the computer in applying statistical methods to their problems. So will you! This course will offer you plenty of practice in analyzing data from a variety of areas. As a result you should be well prepared for problem-solving involving statistics in the rest of your college courses, as well as gaining an understanding of the role of statistics in your daily life. |
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| Prerequisites: | 2 units in algebra | ||
| Instructor: | Dr. Andrew (Andy) Wiesner
Department of Statistics 308 Thomas Building 863 - 5653 email using Communicate tab in ANGEL Office Hours: TR 10:30 - 11:30 |
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| For TAs and their office hours please see "Teaching Assistants" in ANGEL | |||
| Date | Objectives, Topic, and Notes | Reading and Homework Assignments |
| Weeks of Jan 14 & 21 |
What is Statistics?
Data vs. Information |
Chapter 1: Statistics Success Stories and Cautionary Tales
Chapter 2: Turning Data into Information Lecture Notes: Weeks 1 and 2 HW: Homework 01 and 02 |
| Week of Jan 28 | Regression and Correlation |
Chapter 5: Relationships Between Quantitative Variables
Lecture Notes: Week 3 HW: Homework 03 |
| Week of Feb 4 | Categorical Variables |
Chapter 6: Relationships Between Categorical Variables
Lecture Notes: Week 4 HW: Homework 04 |
| Week of Feb 11 | Probability |
Chapter 7:Probability
Sections 7.1 through 7.5 Lecture Notes: Week 5 HW: Homework 05 MIDTERM I: Available Wed. 2/13 through Fri. 2/15 Refer to Exams section in syllabus for more details. Covers material Weeks 1 through 4 |
| Week of Feb 18 | Random Variables |
Chapter 8: Random Variables
Sections 8.1 through 8.4 Lecture Notes: Week 6 HW: Homework 06 |
| Week of Feb 25 | Random Variables |
Chapter 8: Random Variables
Sections 8.5 through 8.7 Lecture Notes: Week 7 HW: Homework 07 |
| Week of Mar 3 | Sampling Distribution |
Chapter 9: Understanding Sampling Distributions: Statistics as Random Variables
Sections 9.1 through 9.4, 9.6, 9.9 Lecture Notes: Week 8 HW: Homework 08 |
| Week of Mar 17 | Sampling & Confidence Intervals |
Chapter 3: Sampling: Surveys and How to Ask Questions
Chapter 10: Estimating Proportions with Confidence Lecture Notes: Week 9 HW: Homework 09 MIDTERM II: Available Wed. 3/19 through Fri. 3/21 Refer to Exams section in syllabus for more details. Covers material Weeks 1 through 8 |
| Week of Mar 24 | Means |
Chapter 11: Estimating Means with Confidence
Sections 11.1 - 11.3 Lecture Notes: Week 10 HW: Homework 10 |
| Week of Mar 31 | Hypothesis Testing |
Chapter 12: Testing Hypotheses About Proportions
Lecture Notes: Week 11 HW: Homework 11 |
| Week of Apr 7 | Testing Means |
Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses about Means
Sections 13.1 through 13.3 Lecture Notes: Week 12 HW: Homework 12 |
| Week of Apr 14 | Testing Population Means |
Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses about Means
Sections 13.4 through 13.6 Lecture Notes: Week 13 HW: Homework 13 |
| Week of Apr 21 | Using Statistics |
Chapter 16: Analysis of Variance
Sections 16.1 through 16.2 Chapter 17: Turning Information into Wisdom Sections 17.1 through 17.4 Lecture Notes: Week 14 HW: Homework 14 MIDTERM III: Available Wed. 4/23 through Fri. 4/25 Refer to Exams section in syllabus for more details. Covers material Weeks 1 through 14 |
| Week of Apr 28 | Overall Course Review |
Complete final lab activity Review for Final |
| Week of May 5 | Finals Week |
Midterm IV: Scheduled during finals week. Dates to come later. Covers material Weeks 1 through 15 |
| Course Materials | ||
| Textbook: Mind on Statistics, (3nd Ed), by Utts and Heckard Note: If interested, you may purchase the digital copy (less expensive up front and works as if you were “renting” the book for a semester) instead of the hard copy. At the end of the semester you may resell your hard copy which results in an overall expenditure that is roughly the same. If you have purchased the eText, you can access your eText here. | ||
| Grading | ||||||||||||||||||||
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- Weekly Homework (5%) - approx. 13 (Keep best 11)
- Weekly Unit Quizzes (5%) - approx. 13 (Keep best 11) - Weekly Mastery Quizzes (5%) - approx 13 (Keep best 11) - Weekly Lab Activities (5%) - approx. 14 (Keep best 12) - Exams (80%) - Four midterms, Keep best 3 No make up exams! - All grades will be kept in the ANGEL gradebook. To see your grades, click the Report tab and select Grades
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| Important University Dates | ||
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End of Drop/Add - Wednesday, January 23
Filing Period for Final Exam Conflict - Feb 18 through March 2 Spring Break - March 10 through March 14 Late Drop Deadline - April 11 Classes End - Friday, May 2 Final Exam Period - May 5 through May 9 |
| Correspondence | ||
| All email correspondence to me MUST be done using the ANGEL email (under Communicate tab in ANGEL). All other email risks going unanswered. NOTE: If you have your ANGEL email forwarded to another internet account then hitting reply to that email will NOT resend through ANGEL but instead in webmail. These, too, will not be answered. You will need to return to ANGEL and reply using the ANGEL email tools. | ||
| Lecture Notes | ||
| Posted on the ANGEL website | ||
| Policies | ||
| You are encouraged to work together on the homework, quizzes and activities. Working together is defined as working only with students currently registered in the blennded sections of STAT200. This means, for example, if you have a tutor they are not permitted to assist you on taking and completing these assignments. For the homework, quizzes and activities, your best 11 scores in Homework and Quiz categories and best 12 scores in Activities category will count toward your final grade. Because of this policy please read the following carefully!!! | ||
| Homework | ||
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- ALL homework will be completed and submitted using the CENGAGE online package. No paper copies will be accepted!
- The grading of homework is simple - either you get a 0 or 100. If you attempt to answer each question honestly, then you will receive a 100; otherwise a 0. - Submission dates for all homework will be Friday at midnight of that week, starting with Friday, September 7. - No late homework will be accepted. | ||
| Unit Quizzes | ||
| - Unit Quizzes cannot be made up.
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 14. - Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will typically be from noon on Wednesday until midnight on Sunday. - The computer you use Must have MINITAB in order to complete the quiz. - The quizzes will be timed (typically 35 to 50 minutes). - Once you begin the quiz you the timer begins and will not stop. Your quiz will automatically be submitted after the time expires. - All unit quizzes will be delivered using the ANGEL quiz tool. - Unit quizzes will pertain to content covered during that week. - If you miss a quiz, you will have the opportunity to take it but a grade will not be recorded. - CAUTION: Since these quizzes will be delivered online the issue of technical problems may arise, for example ANGEL may not be unavailable or your internet connection might be interrupted. In the case where the problem is ANGEL availability, the deadline will be extended. However, if your internet connection is the problem then on time completion is the student's responsibility. This problem is most common for those students who do not plan accordingly; that is, they wait until the last few hours or minutes prior to the deadline until they take the quiz. | ||
| Lab Activities | ||
| - Lab Activities cannot be made up.
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 14. - Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will operate on the same schedule as the homework, with due dates being by midnight on Friday starting with Friday, September 7. - All Lab Activities will be available in ANGEL as a word document. You will complete the activity by typing your responses on the document, saving it, and submitting your solutions to the activity’s respective drop box in the Lesson folder. - There is no time restriction other than the Friday at midnight deadline. - Minitab will be necessary! - Submit only COMPLETED activities. Multiple submissions may result in a zero for that activity. - Upon submission the solutions will be available in the weekly lesson folder. | ||
| Mastery Quizzes | ||
| - Mastery Quizzes cannot be made up.
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 14. - Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will typically be from noon on Wednesday until midnight on Sunday. - All mastery quizzes will be delivered using the ANGEL quiz tool. - The quizzes will be timed (typically 35 to 50 minutes). - Once you begin the quiz you the timer begins and will not stop. Your quiz will automatically be submitted after the time expires. - Mastery quizzes will consist of questions from that week PLUS previous weeks up until a midterm is given. That is, the master quizzes will be cumulative only for the content that will be covered on the subsequent midterm. - Minitab will not be required for Mastery Quizzes; you may take these quizzes from any computer with access to the internet and ANGEL - CAUTION: Since these quizzes will be delivered online the issue of technical problems may arise, for example ANGEL may not be unavailable or your internet connection might be interrupted. In the case where the problem is ANGEL availability, the deadline will be extended. However, if your internet connection is the problem then on time completion is the student's responsibility. This problem is most common for those students who do not plan accordingly; that is, they wait until the last few hours or minutes prior to the deadline until they take the quiz. | ||
| Exams - Must Bring PSU ID | ||
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- ALL EXAMS WILL BE DELIVERED ONLINE AND BE TAKEN IN THE COMPUTER TESTING CENTER LOCATED IN POLLACK BUILDING.
- You will schedule a time to take your exam by going to the website: https://clc.its.psu.edu/eTesting/Students - Each exam will consist of 30 questions and you will have 60 minutes to complete the exam. - Note that all exams are cumulative! - The exams will be available on the days listed above in the Weekly Outline. - No Calculators are allowed. [Any problems requiring math will be easy.] - Exams are open book and one (1) page of notes (front and back).. These notes can be typed and/or handwritten. If found using materials other than your text and one page of notes you will receive a zero for that exam and it will count as one of your 3 best scores. - No midterm make-ups are available. If you miss a midterm your score will be recorded as a zero. - Keep in mind that of the four exams only your best 3 scores will be used. So if you do well on the first 3 you do not have to take the fourth exam. | ||
| Some Suggestions | ||
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In the past, students have found their understanding of the material and performance on quizzes improved tremendously if they completed the reading assignments (book and lecture notes), homework and lab activities prior to
taking the quizzes. To encourage this behavior, the due dates for activities and homework are Friday wile the quizzes are Sunday.
As explained in the first paragraph above under Policies, since your "best 12" scores will be recorded you have "extra" assignments in the quizzes, activities, and homework portions. Often during a semester personal issues arise (sickness, family emergencies, etc.) which may require you to miss an assignment resulting in a "0" for that particular task. So please do not "waste" these extra chances. Each semester a small number of students wait until the end of the semester until they realize that they are on the verge of failing. At such times they have a tendency to ask "What can I do to improve my grades?" My answer will be "Nothing." As you can tell from the work outlined in this syllabus we will be very busy. Because of that, to allow someone the opportunity to improve their standing because they failed to act properly during the semester would usurp the efforts of students who put forth a semesters worth of work. | ||
| Academic Integrity | ||
| Please visit: http://www.science.psu.edu/academic/Integrity/index.html for details concerning academic integrity guidelines that are adhered to by this course. | ||
| Technical Support | ||
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you experience any problems with access to the online class materials, excluding homeowork, please
contact ANGEL Support via email: angelsupport@psu.edu. |
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