STAT 501

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Fall 2009

Instructor: Dr. Shannon Knapp (email)

 

Textbook:  Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 6th Edition (required)

 

Office Hours HAAS 114, Office Phone: 496-9541

·        Scheduled (subject to change) Scheduled office hours are on a walk-in basis:  no appointment needed!

o   Tuesdays at the following times

·        10:30 a.m. – noon  Canceled on Nov. 24th

·        1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.  Canceled on Nov. 24th

·        4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  Canceled on Nov. 24th

o   Additional Hours

·        Wednesday 9/2:  2:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

·        Sunday 9/27:  1 – 2:30 p.m. and 5 – 6 p.m.

·        Monday 9/28:  3:30 – 5 p.m.

·        Thursday 10/1: 10:30 – 11:30 and 1:30 – 2:30

·        Sunday 11/8:  noon – 2:30 p.m. and 4:45 – 6 p.m.

·        Thursday 11/12: 10:30 - noon

·        By Appointment:  Appointment policy.  Appointments may be made by email and should be requested at least 24 hours prior to the requested time.  In your email you must include (1) the times you are available to meet, and (2) a cell-phone number. 

 

Course Links

·        Syllabus Revised: September 16, 2009

·        Blackboard Vista – Lecture Notes, Solutions to Homework and Exams

·        Software Remote – Remote access to SAS (etc.)

·        Website for Textbook:  Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

 

 

Exams

·        Exam 1:  Monday, September 28th, 8 – 9:15 p.m. location: RHPH 172

·        Exam 2:  Monday, November 9th, 8 – 9:15 p.m. location change: PHYS 114

·        Final Exam:  Monday, December 14th, 8 – 10 a.m., in LILY G126.  I do not give early finals for early travel/vacation, so please do not ask. There will not be a take-home SAS portion of the final

 

Other Important Dates

There will be no classes (or office hours) held on the following days:

·        Tuesday, October 13 - October Break

·        Thursday, October 15 - compensation for evening exam

·        Tuesday, November 24 – compensation for evening exam

·        Thursday, November 26 - Thanksgiving

 

Homework

Solutions to homework assignments will be posted on the course Blackboard (WebCT/Vista) site, usually within 24 hours of when the assignment is due.

 

A reminder for all homework assignments – Please do not hand-in any unlabelled, unedited, or excessive SAS output.  Include in your write-up only those results that are necessary to present a complete solution.  In particular, questions must be answered in order (including graphs and SAS output), and all graphs must be fully labeled (main title should include question number and all axes should be labeled).  Don’t forget to put all necessary information (see Syllabus) on the first page.

 

Data sets for the problems in the textbook are available on the CD that accompanies the book as well as at http://www.whfreeman.com/ips6e

 

Homework should be submitted in class – during the section in which you are enrolled!  

I will not accept homework by email.

 

Unless otherwise noted, homework will be due at the beginning of class. 

 

Assignment

Lectures Covered

Additional Files

Due*

HW #1

through Lecture #1

graph paper

Data for Problem #4 (Excel)

Thurs. Sept. 3

HW #2

through Lecture #2

 

Thurs. Sept 10

HW #3

through Lecture #3

 

Thurs. Sept 17

HW #4

through Lecture #4

Data for Problem #3 (Excel)

Thurs. Sept 24

HW #5

through Lecture #7

Thurs. Oct 8

HW #6

through Lecture #9

Thurs. Oct 22

HW #7

through Lecture #10

 

Thurs. Oct 29

HW #8

through Lecture #11

Problem 1: Article 1, Article 2

Problem 2: Article

Problem 7: Hint/Help

Thurs. Nov 5

HW #9

through Lecture #13

 

Thurs. Nov 19

HW #10

through Lecture #15

Fitness data set (.txt)

Children data set (.txt)

Thurs. Dec 3

HW #11

 

 

tentatively due: Thurs. Dec 10

 * Unless otherwise noted, homework will be due at the beginning of class. 

 

Understanding how your homework assignment was graded (link)

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

Lecture

Topic (Text Sections)

Additional Handouts

Lecture 1

Introduction to Variables and Displaying Distributions with Graphs

(Chapter 1 Introduction and Section 1.1)

 

Lecture 2

Describing Distributions with Numbers (1.2)

 

Lecture 3

Normal Distribution (1.3)

Text Table A

Lecture 4

Binomial Distribution (5.1)

 

Lecture 5

Sampling Distributions (3.2, 5.1, 5.2)

supplements: Excel, PDF

Lecture 6

Point Estimates and Confidence Intervals (3.2, 3.3, 6.1)

Text Table D

Lecture 7

Introduction to Hypothesis Testing (6.2, 6.3, 6.4)

 

Lecture 8

Inference for mu when sigma unknown (7.1)

 

Lecture 9

Comparing Population Means (2.6, 7.1, 7.2)

 

Lecture 10

Inference for a Population Proportion p (8.1)

 

Lecture 11

Chi-Square Tests (2.5, 9.1, 9.2)

Text Table F

Lecture 12

ANOVA (12.1)

Text Table E

supplement: Conceptual review of t-tests

supplement: Making a "Fancy" Individual Value Plot in SAS

Lecture 13

ANOVA – Multiple Comparison Procedures (12.2)

 

Lecture 14

Scatter plots (2.1)

 

Lecture 15

Correlation (2.2, 10.2)

 

Lecture 16

Simple Linear Regression (2.3, 2.4, 10.1, 10.2)

 

Lecture 17

Regression Inference (2.3, 2.4, 10.1, 10.2)

 

Lecture 18

Regression Diagnostics