STAT 500
Spring 2013
Dr. Clark
STAT 500 Applied Statistics (3): Descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, power
estimation, confidence intervals, regression, one way ANOVA, chi square tests,
diagnostics. Prerequisite: one undergraduate course in statistics.
Overview
This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of probability,
common distributions, statistical methods, and data analysis. It is intended for
graduate students who have one undergraduate statistics course and who wish
to review the fundamental concepts before taking additional 500 level statistics
courses.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course you will:
Appreciate and understand the role of statistics in your field
Develop an ability to apply appropriate statistical methods to summarize
and analyze data for some of the more routine experimental
settings
Make sense of data and able to report the results in appropriate table or
statistical terms for inclusion in your thesis or paper
Interpret results from various computer packages and be able to use
Minitab to perform appropriate statistical techniques.
Required Text
“An introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis”. R. Lyman Ott and
Michael Longnecker (6th Edition)
Course Requirements
Homework
There will be 7 homework assignments. Each assignment will be given two
weeks to complete. Homeworks will be due AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS on
Wednesdays. Any homework submitted after 1:25 will be a zero. All homeworks
MUST be turned in but the lowest score will be dropped (if you fail to submit a
homework it will count as a zero and will NOT be dropped). NO late assignments
will be accepted unless approved ONE WEEK PRIOR to the deadline.
Labs
Class will meet in the computer lab on Wednesdays. Most days we will have inclass lab assignments which will be submitted to the dropbox and graded.
Attendance is required for lab grades.
Midterms
There are two mid term exams (Feb 6th and March 20th). These exams will be
administered IN LAB on these dates. The exams will be cumulative but require
NO software.
Final Exam
There will be one final exam administered during final exam period. I WILL NOT
MOVE THE FINAL, NOR WILL I ACCOMMODATE TRAVEL CONFLICTS. Plan
on being on campus the entire finals week period.
Grading
Homework
Lab
Midterm
Final
30%
10%
40%
20%
Grades will be based on the following scale:
A
AB+
B
B
C+
C
D
93
90
88
83
80
78
70
60
What If…
For students who like to go beyond the scope of the requirements I offer
opportunities for them to present examples of the relevant statistical concepts we
are studying by posting to the course discussion forum. Participation in this
optional activity MAY influence grade decisions for students who are on a grade
boundary.
Discussion Forum
I maintain a course discussion forum for this course. If you are struggling with a
homework example or understanding a concept or you are not sure what is due,
then posting a message to the discussion forum is the appropriate course of
action. Please DO NOT EMAIL me with procedural questions or content
questions. Also, student who post the night before a homework is due are
unlikely to receive assistance. Please plan ahead if you are struggling with the
material so that I, or your classmates can help you.
I ONLY answer emails sent to my ANGEL account. If you contact me outside
ANGEL, I will NOT respond.
Help
We will have a grader for the course who will offer office hours, as well as my
personal office hours. Appointments can also be made if you have conflicts with
my office hours.
Academic Integrity
All Penn State policies regarding ethics and honorable behavior apply to this
course (see links below for policy statements). Academic integrity is the pursuit of
scholarly activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of
this institution. All University policies regarding academic integrity apply to this
course.
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing,
fabricating of information or citations, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by
others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of
another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or
tampering with the academic work of other students. For any material or ideas
obtained from other sources, such as the text or things you see on the web, in
the library, etc., a source reference must be given. Direct quotes from any source
must be identified as such. All exam answers must be your own, and you must
not provide any assistance to other students during exams.
Any instances of academic dishonesty WILL be pursued under the University and
Eberly College of Science regulations concerning academic integrity.
Unit
Readings
Unit 1
chapters 1, 2, 3.1 and 3.3
Unit 2
chapters 3.4 - 3.6
unit 3
chapters 4.1-4.4, 4.6 and 4.7
Homework
Homework 1 due 1/23
unit 4
chapters 4.8 - 4.10
unit 5
chapters 4.10 and 4.12
unit 6
5.1, 10.1 and 10.2
unit 7
chapters 5.7, 5.2 and 5.3
unit 8
chapters 5.4, 5.6 and 10.2
unit 9
chapters 5.4, 5.5, 5.7
unit 10
chapters 6.1, 6.2 and 6.4
unit 11
chapters 10.3, 10.6 and 7.3
unit 12
Homework 2 due 2/6
Homework 3 due 2/20
Homework 4 due 3/13
Homeowrk 5 due 3/27
chapters 11.1-11.4 and 11.7
Homework 6 due 4/10
unit 13
chapters 12.1-12.3, 15.1 and 15.2
unit 14
no reading
*NOTE each unit will be covered
each week running Friday,
Monday, Wednesday
exam 1
Feb 6
exam 2
March 20
final exam
tba final exam period
Homework 7 due 4/24