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STAT 201
Elementary Statistics
Instructors:
Sections Professors Contact Office Hours
STAT201:21 Dr. Dr. Ammar Sarhan Annex 21A
867-5732
Monday 1:15—2:05
Tuesday 1:15—2:05
Wednesday 9:15—10:05
Thursday: 2:15—3:05
Friday 2:15—3:05
STAT201:22 D Dr. Sunny Wang Annex 20A
8 867-2464
Monday 12:30—3:30
Tuesday 3:30—5:00
Thursday 3:30—5:00
STAT201:23 Dr. Ryan Lukeman Annex 22C
867-4920
Monday 9:15—11:05
Wednesday 1:15—3:05
Thursday 10:15—12:05
Course Goals: This is an introductory course in Statistics. It deals with basic principles of data
collection, tabulation and analysis. It will provide you with comprehensive knowledge of
topics including, descriptive statistics, graphical display of data, parameter estimation,
hypothesis testing, and simple regression. Furthermore this course will:
prepare you to be proficient in the practice of statistics.
teach you how to identify bias in data collection.
teach you how to organize and summarize data.
teach you to make inferences from data and be to able to test the significance of your
results.
develop problem solving and critical thinking skills.
The main goal is to understand the main concepts, not to memorize formulae.
Textbook: (Required) Statistics for Business and Economics (11th ed.)
by James T. McClave, P. George Benson, and Terry Sincich. Note: there is also a loose-
leaf version of the textbook, please ask the campus bookstore for more information.
Website: http://www.stfx.ca/academic/mathcs/courses/S201/
Grading Scheme:
Assignments 15%
Weekly Quizzes 20%
Midterm (7pm-8pm, February 16, 2011) 20%
Final Exam (Comprehensive) 45%
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Course Software: SPSS will be used as a statistical analysis tool. Students will be expected to become
familiar with the available statistical analysis functionality of SPSS. Some questions in
the assignments will require using SPSS to do graphing or calculation.
Important Notes:
There are 5 assignments in total. Assignments are common with the other sections and are due at the
beginning of the class on the due date. If you miss this deadline, you may turn in your assignment
anytime before the solutions are posted, but with a 25% per day deduction from the grade. No
assignments will be accepted once the solutions are posted. As assignments are an extremely valuable
part of the learning process, all assignments are to be attempted and handed in for grading. Collaboration
on assignments is allowable (and beneficial) to a point that does not violate the authorship of the work
and cross over into plagiarism (see Section 3.8 of the 2011-2012 Academic Calendar).
There are in total 10 quizzes. Quizzes will be given weekly. Only the best 8 out of 10 will be counted
toward to your final mark.
The common Midterm cross all the sections is tentatively scheduled on Thursday, Feb 16th
2012 (7pm in
the evening). The location will be announced later. It is 1 hour in duration. NOTE: There will absolutely
be no make-up of midterms. Weight shifting is only given to the students with verifiable extenuating
circumstances. An extenuating circumstance is a rare and severe event for which a student has no
control or cannot anticipate (for example, a serious accident or emergent medical condition). An official
document/doctor note must be submitted to the Dean’s office and request that your instructor be
notified. It is the responsibility of the student to make sure that the instructor is informed of such events
before assessment due date.
The final exam is a common exam for all sections of STAT 201 and will be scheduled by the Registrar's
Office. The final exam is a comprehensive exam, which tests you everything you learn in this course.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated and University regulations as described in Section 3.8 – Academic
Integrity Policy of the 2011-2012 Academic Calendar will be in force. Also, the attendance policy
described in Section 3.7 - Class Attendance and Withdrawal from University of the 2011-2012
Academic Calendar will be adhered to.
Important dates:
January 9 Assignment 1 Out
January 12 Quiz 1
January 19 Quiz 2, Assignment 1 Due, Assignment 2 Out
January 26 Quiz 3
February 2 Quiz 4, Assignment 2 Due, Assignment 3 Out
February 9 Quiz 5
February 16 Midterm, Assignment 3 Due
March 1 Assignment 4 Out
March 8 Quiz 6
March 15 Quiz 7, Assignment 4 Due, Assignment 5 Out
March 22 Quiz 8,
March 29 Quiz 9, Assignment 5 Due
April 5 Quiz 10
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Syllabus for STAT 201
WEEK TEXT TOPIC
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Jan. 4—Jan. 6
1.1 to 1.7 Introduction to Statistics and Data, Critical Thinking of Statistics
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Jan. 9—Jan. 13
2.1 to 2.5 Describing Data, Summarizing Data, Graphical Representation of Data,
Measures of Central Tendency, Using SPSS
3
Jan. 16—Jan. 20
2.6 to 2.8, 2.11,
3.1 to 3.2
Measures of Dispersion, Measures of Position, Outliers, Distorting the
Truth, Identifying Bias, Fundamentals of Probability
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Jan. 23—Jan. 27
3.3 to 3.7 Additive Rule, Multiplicative Rule, Rule of Complement, Conditional
Probability, Random Sampling
5
Jan. 30—Feb. 3
4.1 to 4.3
Discrete Random Variables, Discrete Probability
Distributions, Binomial Distribution
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Feb. 6—Feb. 10
4.5 to 4.7
Continuous Random Variables, Continuous
Probability Distributions Normal Distribution
7
Feb. 13—Feb. 17
4.10 to 4.11
Midterm; Sampling Distributions, The Central Limit Theorem
8
Feb. 20—Feb. 24
Midterm recess
9
Feb. 27—Mar. 2
5.1 to 5.4
Confidence Interval Estimates
10
Mar. 5—Mar. 9
5.5, 6.1 to 6.3
Sample Sizes for the Mean and Proportion, Fundamentals of Hypothesis
Testing, P-Values, Error Analysis
11
Mar. 12—Mar. 16
6.4 to 6.6
Hypothesis Testing, Claims about a Mean, Proportion
12
Mar. 19—Mar. 23
7.1 to 7.4 Inferences from two Samples: Claims about two Means and two
Proportions
13
Mar. 26—Mar. 30
2.9, 10.1 to 10.3 Simple Linear Regression
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Apr. 2—Apr. 6
10.4 to 10.7 Correlation, Estimation and Prediction
15
Apr. 9—Apr. 10
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