Stat100–002 Elementary Statistics for Applications, Fall 2011

For the Fall 2010 course webpage, click here.

Instructor: Dr Robert Bailey, College West 307.12.
E-mail: click here (make sure you put "Stat100" in the subject line, or it will probably go unnoticed).
Telephone: (306) 585-4088.
Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday 2.00–4.00pm, or by appointment.

Teaching Assistant

The Teaching Assistant for this class is Ha Lam (e-mail). She will be holding office hours each Monday, 2.00–4.00pm, in CW307.14.3 (the Math Boardroom), starting from September 19.

Announcements

The final marks for the course will not be available until the start of the new term in January. The marks have to be approved before they are released, and this will not happen until after the university has reopened after the Christmas and New Year vacation.
To answer a common question, in the final exam you will provided with copies of the standard normal and t-tables. You do NOT have to copy them all out!!!!
Summary answers to the Winter 2011 final exam are now posted here. I have also corrected some typos on the answers to the sample exam.
I have posted yet another sample final exam here.
The review class on Monday 19 December will now be from 7.45–9.45pm in RIC119.
I have revised the solutions for the assignment-type practice problems here. (I had copied them from last year, when slightly different notation was used; there were also a couple of typos.)
Summary solutions for the Fall 2010 final exam are also now available, as is another sample final, here.
Summary solutions to the first Sample Final exam are now available here.
~~Summary solutions to the assignment-type practice questions are also available, here.~~
FINAL EXAM INFORMATION:
- The final exam will be on Wednesday 21 December, 9.00am–12.00 noon, in GYM 2. (Some other Stat100 sections will be writing in GYM 1, so please come to the right room.)
- There will be review sessions, going over old exam papers, at the following times:
  - Monday 12 December, Wednesday 14 December, Thursday 15 December, 6.00–8.00pm, CL110 (with Michael Sherar)
  - Thursday 15 December, 7.00–9.00pm, RIC119 (with Patrick Maidorn)
  - Friday 16 December, 1.00–3.00pm, ED191 (with Robert Bailey)
  - Monday 19 December, ~~7.00–9.00pm~~ 7.45–9.45pm, RIC119 (with Patrick Maidorn)
- My office hours before the exam: Wednesday Dec. 7, Wednesday Dec. 14, Thursday Dec. 15, Monday Dec. 19, Tuesday Dec. 20, all 2.00–4.00pm, in CW307.12.
- In addition to pens/pencils and a calculator, you will need to bring to the exam the GREEN formula/cheat sheet.
  These were distributed in class on Monday 5 December. (If you missed the class, make sure you collect them during office hours.)
- There is only one rule about what you can put on the green sheet: it must be handwritten. You can write on both sides.
- Some sample final exams can be found here, as can a suggested list of formulas you may want to include on your green sheet.
- Finally, a set of assignment-type practice problems can be found here.
Solutions for Assignment 3 can now be found here.
There will be review classes on Tuesday 29th November and Tuesday 6th December, at 2.30pm in room CL112 (in the Classroom building). The first of these will review Midterm 2, and the second will review Assignment 3.
Online Homework 7 is now available on WebAssign. The deadline is Wednesday 30th November at 9:30AM. This will be the last online assignment which counts towards your grade.
The third (and final) written assignment is now available here. It should be submitted in class on Friday 2nd December.
Solutions to Midterm 2 can be found here. Make sure you are looking at the correct version!
A sample test for the second midterm is now available here, along with the formula sheet.
Sources of help outside class:
- My office hours (Wednesday/Thursday, 2.00–4.00pm, CW307.12)
- The TA's office hours (Monday, 2.00–4.00pm, CW307.14.3)
- The Student Success Centre (RC230)
- The Campion College Math & Stats Clinic (CM500)
- The Supplemental Instruction sessions (aimed at Stat100–001, but open to all students)
Online Homework 6 is now available on WebAssign. The deadline is Monday 14 November at 9:30AM.
Tables of values for the standard normal distribution can be found here.
The deadline for the written Assignment 2 has been extended to MONDAY 31 OCTOBER.
Midterm 1 was returned in class on Friday 21 October. Unclaimed copies can be collected during my office hours.
Solutions to Midterm 1 can be found here. Make sure you are looking at the correct version!
The second written assignment is now available here. This should be submitted in class on Friday 28 October.
Online Homework 4 is now available on WebAssign. It is due on Monday 24 October at 9:30AM.
Assignment 1 was returned in class on Wednesday 12 October. If you didn't collect yours, then you can pick it up during my office hours.
If you have any queries about the way in which your assignment was graded, please compare your answers to the model solutions (here) before bringing your assignment to me.
There was a small error in the solutions to Question 3(c) on Assignment 1: I have posted revised solutions here.
Because of Thanksgiving, the TA's office hour on Monday, 10 October will be cancelled. Instead, there will an office hour on Tuesday, 11 October, from 2.00–4.00pm, in CW 308.24 (the Computer Science boardroom). Note the change in venue!
Solutions for Assignment 1 can now be found here.
The first written assignment is now available here. For question 2, you will need the data set here. This should be submitted in class on 30 September.

Course information

Click here for the Course Outline.

Textbook

The textbook is Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Second Canadian Edition), by Mendenhall, Beaver, Beaver and Ahmed. (Note that this is a new textbook from previous years' Stat100 courses.)

A copy of the textbook is strongly recommended, as it provides access to Enhanced WebAssign, which will be used for conducting online homework exercises which form part of the overall grade for the course.

Classes

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9.30–10.20am, Education Building, room ED193.

Lecture summaries

Click here for summaries of the topics covered in each lecture.

Online homework

These will be assigned most weeks, and conducted using the Enhanced WebAssign system. If you purchase a copy of the textbook from the UofR Bookstore, you will acquire an account for this. It is also possible to purchase an account without buying the textbook.

For those students registered by September 1st, you will have had an account created for you. However, this will only become fully activated once you have entered your Access Code.

Details of how to activate your account can be found here (Microsoft PowerPoint file).

Your username is your student ID number.
Your institution code is uregina.ca.
Your password is also your student ID number, but you should probably change this as soon as possible.

Assignments

There will be three traditional written assignments, which will be due in class on Fridays.

Click here for details of assignments and solutions.

Midterm tests

These will take place in class on October 14 and November 18.

For the second midterm on November 18:

The actual test papers are here: Version 1, Version 2, Version 3.
Solutions can be found here: Version 1, Version 2, Version 3.
A practice test can be found here.
Summary solutions for the practice test (so that you can check your answers) are here.
The formula sheet you were supplied with is here.
You were also supplied with copies of the standard normal tables.

For the first midterm on October 14:

A practice test can be found here.
Summary solutions for the practice test (so that you can check your answers) are here.
The formula sheet you were supplied with is here.
The actual test papers are here: Version 1, Version 2, Version 3.
Solutions can be found here: Version 1, Version 2, Version 3.