STAT 200 (Blended Learning)
Course Name: Elementary Statistics
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
Course
and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, companies like the automakers and drug
Description:
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.
Prerequisites: 2 units in algebra
Dr. Andrew (Andy) Wiesner
Department of Statistics
308 Thomas Building
Instructor:
863 - 5653
email using Communicate tab in ANGEL
Office Hours: Monday/Friday: 11:00 - 11:50
For TAs and their office hours please see "Teaching Assistants" in ANGEL
Date
What is
Weeks of
Statistics?
Jan 12 &
Data vs.
19
Information
(Wiesner) Chapter 1
(Utts/Heckard) Chapters 1 and 2
Lecture Notes: Weeks 1 and 2
Week of
Jan 26
Sampling
(Wiesner) Chapter 2
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 5
Lecture Notes: Week 3
Probability
(Wiesner) Chapter 3
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 7.1 - 7.5
Lecture Notes: Week 4
Week of
Feb 2
Week of Random
VariablesFeb 9
(Wiesner) Chapter 4.1 - 4.5
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 8.1 - 8.4
Discrete
Lecture Notes: Week 5
MIDTERM I: Available MONDAY 02/09Refer to Exams
section in syllabus for more details. Covers material Weeks 1
through 4 - Probability
Week of
Feb 16
Random
VariablesContinuous
(Wiesner) Chapter 4.6 - 4.8
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 8.5 - 8.7
Lecture Notes: Week 6
Week of
Feb 23
Sampling
Distribution
(Wiesner) Chapter 5
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 9.1 through 9.4, 9.6, 9.9, 9.10
Lecture Notes: Week 7
Week of
Mar 2
Confidence
Intervals
(Wiesner) Chapter 6
(Utts/Heckard) Chapters 10.1 - 10.2 and 11.1 - 11.2
Lecture Notes: Week 8
Week of
Mar 16
Hypothesis
Testing
(Wiesner) Chapter 7
(Utts/Heckard) Chapters 12.1 - 12.2 and 13.1 - 13.2
Lecture Notes: Week 9
(Wiesner) Chapter 8
(Utts/Heckard) Chapters 10.3, 11.3, 11.4, 12.3, 13.3 - 13.6
Week of Comparing Two Lecture Notes: Week 10
Mar 23 Groups
MIDTERM II: Available WEDNESDAY 03/25 Refer to
Exams section in syllabus for more details. Covers material
Weeks 1 through 8 - Confidence Intervals
Week of
Mar 30
Analysis of
Variance
(ANOVA)
(Wiesner) Chapter 9
(Utts/Heckard)Chapter 16.1 - 16.2
Lecture Notes: Week 11
Week of
Apr 6
(Wiesner) Chapter 10
Categorical Data (Utts/Heckard) Chapters 4.1 - 4.4 and 15.1-15.2
Lecture Notes: Week 12
Week of
Apr 13
Correlation and
Regression
(Wiesner) Chapter 11
(Utts/Heckard) Chapter 3.1 - 3.3 and 14.1 - 14.4
Lecture Notes: Week 13
More About
Week of
Linear
Apr 20
Regression
Week of
Apr 27
Using Statistics
and Course
Review
Week of
Finals Week
May 4
Multiple Linear Regression (no chapter
just online notes)
Lecture Notes: Week 14
MIDTERM III: Available WEDNESDAY 04/22 Refer to
Exams section in syllabus for more details. Covers material
Weeks 1 through 13 - Correlation and Regression
Lecture Notes: Week 15
Review for Final
Final Exam: Scheduled during finals week. DO NOT MAKE
PLANS TO LEAVE EARLY UNTIL DATES ARE
ANNOUNCED Date to come later. Covers material Weeks 1
through 15
Course Materials
Textbook: Any ONE of following:
A Sports-Oriented Approach to Introductory Statistics (1st Ed), by Wiesner (The least
expensive copy found at: https://students.universityreaders.com/store/. Create an account and
follow the directions)
Mind on Statistics, (5th Ed), by Utts and Heckard (note that data disc is NOT required)
Mind on Statistics, (4th Ed), by Utts and Heckard (note that data disc is NOT required and
chapters mentioned above in refer to 5th edition. However, one can easily use Table of
Contents to locate correct section.)
Grading
- Weekly Unit Quizzes (5%) - approx. 13 (Drop lowest 2)
- Weekly Mastery Quizzes (5%) - approx 13 (Drop lowest 2)
- Weekly Lab Activities (5%) - approx. 14 (Drop lowest 2)
- Midterms (60%) - Three midterms, (Drop lowest 1) No make up exams!
- Final (25%) No make up final!
- All grades will be kept in the ANGEL gradebook. To see your grades, click the Report tab
and select Grades
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D
C
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BB
B+
AA
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Important University Dates
End of Drop/Add - Wednesday, January 21
Filing Period for Final Exam Conflict - February 16 through March 8
Late Drop Deadline - Friday April 10
Spring Break - March 8 through March 14
Classes End - Friday, May 1
Final Exam Period - May 4 through May 8
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 practice problems, quizzes and activities.
Working together is defined as working only with students currently registered in the
blended 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. Violations of this
policy will be treated as transgressions against university academic policy. This includes
Lion Tutors and Nittany Notes, neither of which - despite their company names - are
affiliated with Penn State or the Statistics Department. For the quizzes and activities, your
lowest two 2 scores will be dropped as well as your lowest one 1 midterm exam score.
Because of this grading scheme please read the following remarks about each category
carefully!!!
Unit Quizzes
- Unit Quizzes cannot be made up.
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 12.
- Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will be from noon
on Monday until midnight on Sunday for the week of that lesson.
- You will have two attempts at each quiz with higher score being recorded and must be
submitted by the deadline for that quiz.
- 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.
- The solutions to the quiz will be available around noon on the Monday following the
deadline. You can review your results by clicking on your submission link.
- 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.
Mastery Quizzes
- Mastery Quizzes cannot be made up.
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 12.
- Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will be from noon
on Monday until midnight on Sunday for the week of that lesson.
- You will have two attempts at each quiz with higher score being recorded and must be
submitted by the deadline for that quiz.
- 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
- If you miss a quiz, you will have the opportunity to take it but a grade will not be recorded.
- The solutions to the quiz will be available around noon on the Monday following the
deadline. You can review your results by clicking on your submission link.
- 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 - Due on FRIDAYS
- Lab Activities cannot be made up.
- Grading: If complete, grade is 100; incomplete, grade is zero (0).
- Must be answered using statistical language
- Submitting copies or very similar language of solutions results in a zero for ALL
activities
- Will be assigned weekly starting the week of January 12.
- A word of advice: complete the activity prior to attempting the quizzes.
- Must be completed online during the scheduled time. This scheduled time will be from noon
on Monday until midnight on FRIDAY for the week of that lesson.
- All Lab Activities will be available in ANGEL as a word document(any version i.e. .doc
or .docx) . You will complete the activity by typing your responses on the document, saving it
AS A WORD DOCUMENT, and submitting your solutions to the activity’s respective drop
box in the Lesson folder.
- IF YOU FAILED TO PROPERLY SUBMIT THE ACTIVITY, SUBMITTED IT IN A
FORM OTHER THAN A WORD DOCUMENT, THE FILE CANNOT BE OPENED, OR
YOU SUBMITTED THE WRONG ACTIVITY WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF A ZERO
(0) FOR THAT ACTIVITY.
- There is no time restriction other than the Friday at midnight deadline.
- Minitab will be necessary!
- Submit only ONE COMPLETED activity. Multiple submissions may result in a zero for that
activity.
- Upon submission the solutions will be available in the weekly lesson folder.
Exams - Must Bring PSU ID
- 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
- BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN YOUR EXAM TIME ONCE YOU REGISTER.
- Please arrive a few minutes early for your exam. If you forget your time or are late and the
testing center refuses to allow you to take the exam this is your error and you will receive a
zero (0) for that exam. PLEASE do NOT think that you can arrive anytime during your
scheduled hour and still take the exam.
- Each exam will consist of 35 to 40 multiple choice questions and you will have 60 minutes
to complete the exam. Minitab will NOT be required for exams.
- Note that all exams are cumulative!
- The exams will be available on the days listed above in the Weekly Outline.
- No Calculators [Any problems requiring math will be easy.]
- Any tables necessary will be provided.
- Exams are closed book and one (1) pages of HANDWRITTEN notes (front and back
constitute one page). NO SCRATCH PAPER - leave space on your note page. These notes
MUST BE HANDWRITTEN. Violations to these rules will result in an F-grade for the
course. Dropping the course will NOT be an option.
- Note page WILL NOT BE COLLECTED FOLLOWING EXAM.
- No make-ups are available. If you miss an exam your score will be recorded as a zero. Keep in mind that of the first three exams your lowest score will be dropped.
Some Suggestions
BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN YOUR EXAM TIME ONCE YOU REGISTER.
Please arrive a few minutes early for your exam. If you forget your time or are late and the
testing center refuses to allow you to take the exam this is your error and you will receive a
zero (0) for that exam. PLEASE do NOT think that you can arrive anytime during your
scheduled hour and still take the exam.
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), practice problems and lab activities prior to taking the quizzes. To encourage this
behavior.
As explained in the first paragraph above under Policies, since each assignment category
includes dropped scores you have "extra" assignments. 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 - INCLUDING EXAMS. 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, Mutual Respect, Disabilities, and Campus Emergencies
Academic Integrity: All Penn State and Eberly College of Science policies regarding
academic integrity apply to this course. See http://science.psu.edu/currentstudents/Integrity/Policy.html for details. Please understand that the integrity policy also
applies to the use of clickers. In particular, use of any clicker by someone other than a person
to whom it is registered is a violation of the policy and will result in academic sanctions such
as a loss of five or more points from the final course grade, depending on the severity of the
violation. Basically, to avoid problems, you should never bring any clicker to class that is not
your own.
Code of Mutual Respect: The Eberly College of Science Code of Mutual Respect and
Cooperation ( http://science.psu.edu/climate/code-of-mutual-respect-and-cooperation/Codeof-Mutual-Respect%20final.pdf/view embodies the values that we hope our faculty, staff, and
students possess and will endorse to make the Eberly College of Science a place where every
individual feels respected and valued, as well as challenged and rewarded.
Disabilities statement: Penn State welcomes students with disabilities into the University's
educational programs. If you have a disability-related need for reasonable academic
adjustments in this course, contact the Office for Disability Services (ODS) at 814-863-1807
(V/TTY). For further information regarding ODS, please visit the Office for Disability
Services web site at http://equity.psu.edu/ods/.
Campus emergencies: Campus emergencies, including weather delays, are announced on
Penn State Live (http://news.psu.edu/) and communicated to cellphones, email, the Penn State
Facebook page, and Twitter via PSUTXT (to sign up, please see http://psutxt.psu.edu).
Technical Support
If 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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