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STATISTICS 200 – ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
SPRING 2014
Instructor: Aramide Kazeem, Ph.D.
Email address: auk184@psu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30pm-4:00pm.
Office Location: 424A Thomas Building
Lecture/Class Meeting Times: Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1:25pm-2:15pm.
Class Meeting Place: 101 Thomas Building.
Semester Time Frame: Spring 2014, Monday, January 13 – Friday, May 02.
Lab Meeting Times:
Mondays and Fridays from 12:20pm-1:10pm [section 010: 214 Boucke Building]
Mondays and Fridays from 1:25pm-2:15pm [section 011: 111 Boucke Building]
Mondays and Fridays from 3:30pm-4:20pm [section 012: 214 Boucke Building]
Teacher’s Assistants
Sections 10 and 11: Daisy Phillips [email: dlp245@psu.edu]
Section 12
Jim Russell [email: jcr264@psu.edu]
Course Materials:
Required Textbook: Mind on Statistics, Fourth Edition, Utts and Heckard.
Required Calculator: TI-84 Calculators.
Statistical Software: Minitab
ANGEL:
This course uses ANGEL; it is the Penn State’s online course management system. For
information on accessing ANGEL go to: https://cms.psu.edu/default.asp . See ANGEL on
a weekly basis for homework and lab assignments. Your grades on all exams and
assignments will also be posted on ANGEL.
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Homework Assignments: There will be two types of homework assignments. You will
be assigned homework after the completion of each section of a given chapter from Utts
& Heckard. Homework will generally be assigned on the last day of lecture each week
and due the first day of lecture of the following week. Lab assignments will be also be
assigned each week. Thirty percent of your final grade comes from your homework
(15%) and lab assignments (15%).
Lab Assignments: Lab activities will be posted after the last day of lecture each week.
Your lab assignments must be completed during scheduled lab time. You should see
ANGEL weekly for lab assignments.
Exams: There will be two midterm exams and a cumulative final exam in this course.
The midterm exams contribute thirty percent to your final course grade. Each counts 15%
towards your final grade. The final exam will account for 40 percent of your final grade.
During exams, you cannot communicate with your classmates and all cell phones must be
turned off.
Tutoring Help [Known as Shared Office Hours]: Tutoring is available in 7B Sparks
Building. It starts Tuesday, January 21st. Tutoring hours are 1-4pm and 6-9pm on MTW
and 1-3pm and 6-9pm on Thursday.
Penn State’s Principle on Academic Integrity: In this course, students are expected to
abide by the university’s academic integrity principle. The University states that
“academic integrity is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at Penn State
University, allowing the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest, and responsible
manner. In accordance with the University Code of Conduct, [you are expected] to
practice integrity in regard to all academic assignments. [It is expected] that you will not
engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception because such
acts of dishonesty violate the fundamental ethical principles of the University community
and compromise the worth of work completed by others.”
Attendance and Encouragement: I encourage you to come to class regularly. If you
miss too many classes, it can affect your performance. Read the assigned sections in each
chapter before each lecture. It will make the learning process easier for you. More
importantly, the material being covered in class will not be totally new to you if you go
through the assigned readings before class.
Grades:
Grade
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
Percent
94-100
90-93.9
87-89.9
83-86.9
80-82.9
76-79.9
70-75.9
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D
F
65-69.9
64.9 and below
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Course Schedule:
Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
9
10
11
12
Tentative
Material
Chapter 1 &
Chapter 2 (all
sections)
Chapter 2 (all
sections
continues)
Chapter 3 (all
sections)
Chapter 4
(sections 4.14.4)
Review
Chapters 1, 2,
3 & 4; Exam 1
on Chapters 1,
2, 3, & 4
Chapter 5
(section 5.2) &
Chapter 6
(sections 6.16.3)
Chapter 7,
(sections 7.17.2 & 7.7) &
Chapter 8
(sections 8.18.2)
Chapter 8,
(sections 8.38.6)
Review
Chapters 5, 6,
7&8
Chapter 9
(sections 9.1,
9.2, 9.6 & 9.9)
Chapter 9
(sections 9.1,
9.2, 9.6 & 9.9
continues)
Chapter 10 (all
sections)
Chapter 11
(sections 11.1
– 11.5)
Chapter 12: (all
sections)
Chapter 13:
(sections 13.113.6)
Topics
HW
Exam
Overview of Statistics, Population, Hw1
Statistical Principles
Descriptive Methods: (one
quantitative) & (one categorical)
variable
Descriptive Methods: Regression
& Correlation
Chi-square Procedure: 2X2
tables (plus relative risk etc)
Hw2
Hw3
Hw4
Exam 1 on
Chapters 1, 2 3
&4
Margin of error, polls &
corresponding confidence
interval.
Design of “Randomized
Experiments” & “Observational
Studies”
Probability Interpretation &
Flawed Intuitive Judgments
Random Variables, Binomial
distribution & Normal
distribution
Hw5
Random Variables, Binomial
distribution & Normal
distribution
Hw7
Hw6
Exam 2 on
Chapters 5, 6,
7&8
Sampling Distributions
Hw8
Sampling Distributions
Hw9
Confidence Intervals: Population
Proportion(s)
Confidence Intervals: Population
Mean(s)
Hw10
Hypothesis Tests: Population
Proportions(s)
Hypothesis Tests: Population
Mean(s)
Hw12
Hw11
Hw13
5
13
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Final Exams
Period (-)
Chapter 14:
(section 14.3)
& Chapter 15
(sections 15.1
& 15.2)
Chapter 16
(sections 16.1,
16.2 & 16.3) &
Chapter 18
(section 18.1)
Hypothesis Test: Population
Correlation (link to Population
Slope test)
Chi-square Procedures: larger
than 2X2 tables
One-Way ANOVA & Two-Way
ANOVA (no replication)
Hw14
Hw15
Final Exam:
Cumulative (all
chapters)