Online Basic Statistics

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1 Online Basic Statistics Madison Area Technical College Fall 2013 Syllabus Course Information Catalog Number: Class Number: Dates: 10/21/ /20/2013 Credits: 4 Website: Publisher Website: Pearson Course ID: bannen17013 Instructor Information Instructor: Sarah Bannen scbannen@madisoncollege.edu Phone: (608) Skype: sarah.bannen Google: scbannen.madisoncollege Office hours: M/W 4:30-5:15pm, T/Th. 2-2:45pm Office: West Campus Room 320 Description In Basic Statistics appropriate statistical techniques are studied for the systematic collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of experimental results, including surveys and quality control. The focus is on understanding the techniques of statistical inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis testing) and interpreting results as found in articles and reports. It emphasizes the inherent uncertainty when decisions are made on the basis of sample data. Includes descriptive statistics, basic probability theory, sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem; the binomial, normal, Student t, chi-square, and F distributions; and techniques of 1- and 2-sample tests, linear regression, correlation, an introduction to analysis of variance and selected nonparametric procedures. Prerequisite: Intermediate Algebra, with a grade of C or better, or Intermediate Algebra Parts 1, and 2, with a grade of C or better in both parts, or appropriate placement score. Online Learning Expectations This is an online course, so it requires you to use a computer extensively. It is also condensed from 16 weeks down to 8 weeks. This course may not be right for you if you do not have about hours each week to complete the course work between October 21 and December 20; you do not like working with computers, the Internet, or technology; or you do not have unlimited, high-speed access to the Internet. Here are the technology recommendations for Madison College: Please note that technical issues are not an excuse for incomplete work in this course. If you are having technical problems, you can contact the Madison College Help Desk or use computers located on any of our campuses. Course Format There are weekly deadlines in this course every Friday and Monday at 11:59pm. See the schedule below. You will participate in discussions and turn in assignments for the final project and supporting work for tests on Blackboard. You will do homework and tests on the MyStatLab course website, which requires Adobe Flash player. For statistical calculations, we will use Microsoft Excel 2013, 2010, 2007, or Excel for Mac The final project involves collecting original data, making an inference, and presenting your results using PowerPoint and VoiceThread. You should plan to spend about 3-4 hours per day, 5 days per week, on this class. It is better to spend the time each day than to cram it all in before the deadline. Netiquette Please read the online etiquette guidelines at You will be expected to follow these guidelines when you post to the discussion board and when you send s related to this class. 1

2 Basic Statistics Fall 2013 Syllabus Page 2 of 6 Getting Started Step 1: Buy the textbook as well as access to the MyStatLab course website. The required textbook is Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 5th edition, by M. Triola, published by Pearson, The textbook plus MyStatLab access can be purchased as a package. There are two options: MyStatLab access (includes e-book) You can get free access for 17 days, but after that you must pay or lose access. MyStatLab access + paper textbook ISBN: Madison College Bookstore, or Step 2: Register on the MyStatLab course website. Location: Course ID: bannen17013 Step 3: Do the introductory assignments. These assignments are due on October 21, the first day of class: Attend a kick-off meeting with Sarah, your instructor (information on possible online and face-to-face meeting times will be sent in an ) Do Homework 0 (on MyStatLab), a tutorial on how to enter answers for your homework and tests Participate in Discussion 0 (on Blackboard), in which you will introduce yourself to the class Step 4: Obtain Microsoft Excel. We will use Excel extensively in this class. The textbook supports Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, and Excel for Mac As a Madison College student, you can obtain Microsoft Office at a greatly reduced price from the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog: Step 5: View the weekly checklist, and get going! The weekly checklists will tell you exactly what learning activities to do and what assignments to complete each week. Your weekly due dates will be Mondays at 11:59pm. Step 6: Stay in touch. Please check your Madison College address at least twice a week so that you don t miss important announcements. Seek help early if you are falling behind! I am always happy to hear from you. You are welcome to visit me during my office hours, or to set up a Skype or phone appointment with me.

3 Basic Statistics Fall 2013 Syllabus Page 3 of 6 Instructor Schedule and Availability I try to reply to s as quickly as possible. During the week, you can expect a response within 24 hours of the sent time. Over the weekend, I will not guarantee this response time, but you will see a reply early Monday morning. Madison College Sun Aug 25 Sat Aug 31, 2013 (Central Time) Sun 8/25 Mon 8/26 Tue 8/27 Wed 8/28 Thu 8/29 Fri 8/30 Sat 8/31 10am 11am 12pm Elem. West :30am - 1:55pm Elem. West :30am - 1:55pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 2pm - 2:45pm 2pm - 2:45pm 4pm West 437 3:30pm - 4:20pm 5pm 6pm 4:30pm - 5:15pm Int. West 218 5:30pm - 7:55pm 4:30pm - 5:15pm Int. West 218 5:30pm - 7:55pm 7pm 8pm 9pm Grading Component Point Value Number Total Percentage Kick-off meeting % Weekly Discussions % Homework* % Tests % Final Project and Presentation % Final Exam % Total Possible % * The lowest four homework assignments will be dropped. A [92%, 100%] AB [88%, 92%) B [82%, 88%) BC [78%, 82%) C [72%, 78%) D [65%, 72%) F [0%, 65%)

4 Basic Statistics Fall 2013 Syllabus Page 4 of 6 Kick-off Meeting I am asking each of you to meet with me before the course officially starts, or at the latest during the first week. The goals are to establish contact so you know I m a real person, and to get you off to a running start in this condensed 8-week course. You will receive 10 points for participating. I will send an with possible face-to-face and online meeting times. Policies for Homework You will do your homework, tests, and final exam on the MyStatLab course website. The homework is designed as a learning activity. There are no time limits on the homework, and there are many ways to get help while you are working on it, including links to the e-book and other multimedia content from the publisher, links to instructor videos, access to Ask My Instructor which allows you to send me an showing me where you got stuck, and Help Me Solve This which takes you through the problem step-by-step. Policies for Tests and Final Exam The tests and final exam are open book, open notes, but you must do them on your own with no help from other people. You must finish the tests by the due dates (Monday at 11:59pm) they will be closed afterwards. Before the due dates, you may take each chapter test twice. Your highest score will be counted. This re-take option does not apply to the final. The tests will be timed and you must finish them after you start them. The time limit for each test is 2 hours. The test questions will consist of MyStatLab problems that are similar to those on the homework. You will also have the option of submitting an Excel file containing supporting work, allowing me to give partial credit on missed problems. You will submit the Excel file on Blackboard within 24 hours of finishing the test. Note that I will grade the Excel files all at the same time, for fairness. Therefore, if you submit your test early, you will have to wait until everyone else finishes it to find out your updated test grade. It is imperative that you keep up with the pace of this course, so the test due dates are hard deadlines. However, you may have one test extension during the course, as long as you ask for the extension before the test deadline. The final exam is similar to the tests, with the same types of problems and the same time limit of two hours. The only differences are that the final is cumulative, that it is due on a Friday, and that you can only take the final once. Policies for Discussions Every week you will be required to post once in the discussion board on Blackboard by Friday at 11:59pm and respond to two of your classmates threads by Monday at 11:59pm. On the discussion board there are no right or wrong answers and no minimum number of words or sentences, but your post must have some substance. Examples of acceptable responses include asking a question; answering a classmate s question or providing a clarification; pointing out something you found interesting, surprising, or confusing; suggesting an extension or connection; posting a link to a real-world application; or posting a link to an explanation you found helpful. Each week s discussion will be worth a possible 20 points. The instructions will specify how the points will be allocated; if you follow the instructions and participate in all of the discussions on time, you will receive full credit. You will not get credit for late posts. Policies for the Final Project The final project will be worth 150 points, which you will accumulate during 4 checkpoints: your project proposal in Week 2, your raw data and Excel graphs in Week 5, your VoiceThread presentation and Excel analysis in Week 7, and your responses to your classmates in Week 8. For the final project, you will plan an experiment or a method for collecting data in an observational study. After collecting original data, you will make an inference by using the methods learned in the course and using Excel for the data analysis and graphs. You will create a PowerPoint presentation and post the presentation on VoiceThread, along with a 3-5 minute voice recording. Finally, you will watch your classmates presentations and respond to two of them.

5 Basic Statistics Fall 2013 Syllabus Page 5 of 6 Disability Act Statement Madison College complies with all provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and makes reasonable accommodations upon request. Please contact Disability Resources Services at (Students who are deaf via Relay 711), room 159 at Truax or drs@madisoncollege.edu. If you have an accommodation card from their office indicating that you have a disability which requires academic accommodations, please present it to me so we can discuss the accommodations that you might need in this class. It is best to request these accommodations at the beginning if not before class so there is ample time to make the accommodations. Student Responsibilities Students are expected to be familiar with Madison College policies and procedures. Many of the important policies and procedures are on the Madison College website, located at Academic Integrity is an expectation in all Madison College classes. Plagiarism, cheating and collusion are prohibited at Madison College. Plagiarism is defined as passing of another persons work as your own. Students who fail to observe these standards are subject to disciplinary action. Madison College has a strong policy on Academic Misconduct which is published on the Madison College website. Please refer to this page on the Madison College Website to review all Academic Integrity and Misconduct policies located at Withdrawal Policy If a situation arises that prevents the successful completion of this course, please note that it is each student s responsibility to formally withdraw from this course. Syllabus Changes As your instructor, I retain the right to make changes based on the timeline of the class, feedback from learners and/or logistical issues and will inform you as soon as a change is made.

6 Basic Statistics Fall 2013 Syllabus Page 6 of 6 Schedule and Assignments In order to cover all of the material in 8 weeks, we must do 4-5 sections of the textbook each week. I strongly recommend that you do one or two sections per day, rather than trying to do it all the day it is due. WEEK OF SECTIONS COVERED ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OCTOBER 14 (Preview Week) OCTOBER 21 (Week 1) OCTOBER 28 (Week 2) NOVEMBER 4 (Week 3) NOVEMBER 11 (Week 4) NOVEMBER 18 (Week 5) NOVEMBER 25 (Week 6) December 2 (Week 7) DECEMBER 8 (Week 8) DECEMBER 15 (Finals Week) Read the Syllabus 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (Introduction to Statistics) 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (Summarizing and Graphing Data) 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data) 4.2, 4.3 (Probability) 4.4 (Probability) 5.2,5.3, 5.4 (Discrete Probability Distributions) 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 (Normal Probability Distributions) 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 (Estimates and Sample Sizes) 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 (Hypothesis Testing) 8.5 (Hypothesis Testing) 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 (Inferences from Two Samples) 10.2, 10.3 (Correlation and Regression) 11.3 (Contingency Tables) 12.2 (Analysis of Variance) Discussion 0: Introduction (on Blackboard) Homework 0: Orientation to MyStatLab Meeting with Sarah either face- to- face or online Due October 21 Discussion 1: Use and Misuse of Statistical Graphs Chapter 1-2 Homework and Test Due October 28 Discussion 2: Final Project Ideas Chapter 3 Homework and Test Homework 4.2 and Homework 4.3 Final Project Proposal Due November 4 Discussion 3: Probability and the Binomial Distribution Chapter 4-5 Homework and Test Due November 11 Discussion 4: Normal Distributions Chapter 6 Homework and Test Due November 18 Discussion 5: Confidence Intervals Chapter 7 Homework and Test Due November 25 Homework 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 Final Project Data and Graphs Due December 2 Discussion 6: Hypothesis Testing Chapter 8-9 Homework and Test Due December 9 Discussion 7: Mathematical Modeling Chapter Homework and Test Final Project Analysis and Presentation Due December 16 Final Project Responses FINAL EXAM Due Friday December 20