De Anza College - CSUEB
Interface
Eric A. Suess
Department of Statistics and Biostatics
eric.suess@csueastbay.edu
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Introductions
• My name is Eric Suess. I am currently the Chair of
the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics and
CSU East Bay.
• We offer undergraduate service courses in
Statistics.
• BS Statistics major, minor
• MS Statistics, options in Applied, Computational,
Mathematical, Actuarial Science
• Post-bac Certificates
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Dept. of Stat and Biostat
Dept. of Math
My website
How to become at student
http://www.sci.csueastbay.edu/statistics/
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/csci/departments/math-cs/index.html
http://algebra.sci.csueastbay.edu/~esuess/index.html
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/prospective/index.html
My interests
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Time Series Analysis finance.yahoo.com
Bayesian Statistics
Computational Statistics
Epidemiology
Consulting
Statistics Education
MPS Math Performance Success
• I have been very interested in your MPS
program.
• Supporting the study and success of Math
students is a great thing!
StatWay
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/statway
Overview
The Carnegie Statway™ Networked Improvement Community is focused on statistics, data
analysis and quantitative reasoning. These mathematics skills are essential for a growing
number of occupations and professions, and are those needed for making decisions under
conditions of uncertainty, an inescapable condition of modern life. This is the math that will help
students understand the world around them and it is the math they can use right now.
Statway™ is designed as a one-year pathway that culminates in college-level statistics. The
year-long experience will concentrate on statistical content with requisite arithmetic and
algebraic concepts taught and applied in the context of statistics. The Statway™ pathway is
structured especially to serve students planning to transfer and continue further studies in
humanities or social sciences. Students who have unexpected success in quantitative courses,
particularly when their experiences of mathematics has been difficult before, may become
emboldened and may decide to take more mathematics.
This pathway includes newly developed curricula as well as an intensive student engagement
component within the classroom environment focused on increasing student motivation and
tenacity. These supports include the information and the skills needed for academic success as
well as tools that will help students to navigate college.
Statway™ online materials were launched in 19 community colleges in five states in August
2011. In addition to lessons and student supports, the pathway includes MyStatway™, online
out-of-class activities and homework. These take the place of a textbook, which is not required.
What are the things the CSU is looking
for in CC Statistics students?
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Math 10
Math 23
Math Special Project
Transferable units
http://faculty.deanza.edu/solerfrank/classes/course1
http://faculty.deanza.edu/solerfrank/stories/storyReader$8
http://faculty.deanza.edu/solerfrank/classlist/
• Major level courses
Our Stat 1000 - Elements of Probability
and Statistics
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Descriptive Statistics: center & variability
Probability
Statistical Inference
Project to collect data
The end of almost all problems has an
explanatory sentence
Software or Calculator?
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MS Excel - free in the MS Skydrive
google docs, spreadsheet, forms
OpenOffice Spreadsheet
Minitab
SPSS
Fathom
Stat Crunch
JMP, SAS
R
tableau
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.minitab.com/en-US/default.aspx
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/academic/
http://www.keypress.com/x5656.xml
http://www.statcrunch.com/
http://www.r-project.org/
http://www.tableausoftware.com/
Software or Calculator?
• Statistics Handbook for the
TI83
• Nspire
• Microsoft Mathematics 4.0
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/activitybook_83_statistics.html
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/graphing_course_comparision.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVuaRxTNZR8
Statistics Support Group for Instructors
• Idea Exchange, once a year have a meeting of
the minds on curriculum and projects.
• Math Special Project course
Tutoring
• SCAA
• Tutoring is an excellent job skill for students of
Mathematics and Statistics majors
• Being able to explain what a mathematical
formula means in words and what it is useful
for is great preparation for a job interview.
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/library/scaa/tutoring.html
Continue the Interaction
• Ideas?
• my email: eric.suess@csueastbay.edu