Announcements                                                                   STA 2023 – Spring 2013

 

 

General Information

 

Course Structure:  Lectures and Labs

 

Labs – attendance required, once a week in CBD 220

·        Lab attendance is required for all students, according to the section they are registered for.  When you register for this course, please pick the lab section that is most convenient for you.

·        Labs meet once a week with a TA in CBD 220 (half a block North of University Avenue, across from Library West).

·        If you are registered for the Web lectures then the only thing that will appear on your schedule is the Lab, but everyone is welcome to attend the live class anyway.

·        The first week of classes, the TA’s will be in lab only to provide information about the course.  If you read all the information on this page and the syllabus and watch the first online lecture, you do not need to attend lab the first week.

Lectures – everyone can watch either live or online

·        Attending Live Lectures will be taught MWF 6th period in Norman 137 (350 seats).  You may also attend the taping during MWF 5th period in Norman G520 (25 seats).  Everyone is welcome to attend the live lectures, even those who are registered for a Web class.  However, once the classrooms are full, no other students will be allowed for safety reasons.

·        Watching Online Lectures: the 5th period lectures will be videotaped and available to view online as streaming video the same day they are taught, usually around 1 pm.  Everyone can watch the online lectures, even those registered for the live section of the course.

·        Link for Online Lectures is posted in the course website in e-Learning.  For the first week of the semester it will also appear on this announcement page, but after Drop/Add is over all the course content will be moved to e-Learning, and only the Announcements will appear here. 

 

 

 

Materials:  Lab Workbook, Text and Calculator

 

NOTE - the HONORS section of STA2023 sometimes uses a different book.  Please double check the name of the book and the author before purchasing.

 

Required Lab Workbook

·        Lab Workbook for Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data  by Megan Mocko and Maria Ripol, 3rd  edition, Pearson.   

·        Lab Workbook MUST be purchased NEW, and is available alone or bundled with the textbook. 

·        This workbook includes copies of the lecture notes and all the worksheets for the Lab portion of the course. 

 

Recommended Textbook  

·        Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin, 3rd edition, Pearson, 2013.   

·        Textbook can be purchased as an Ebook (http://www.pearsoncustom.com/fl/ufl_stat), hardbound new or used

(ISBN: 9780321755940), bundled with the Lab Workbook,  or a Notebook Version covering only chapters 1-10 (this is unbound, non-returnable, and suitable only for students that will not take STA3024).

 

Scientific Calculator

·        You will need a calculator with some basic statistical functions: mean and standard deviation.

·        Many inexpensive calculators (around $15) have these functions; check the manual or look for the following symbols: x-bar and either s or σn-1.

·        All of the more expensive graphing calculator have them as well, but it is not necessary to buy one of them for this class.

 

 

Course Website in e-learning

 

·         This Announcement page will have information for the course, the online lectures for the first week, and important announcements during the whole semester. 

·         After the first week of the semester, everything but the announcements will move to a password protected website in e-learning-Sakai:   http://lss.at.ufl.edu/ 

·         You will need your gatorlink ID and password to log on to e-learning.

·         The Registrar will automatically give you access to the e-learning course website, but it may take up to 48 hours for the link to appear after you are officially registered for the course.

·         Quizzes will be conducted online, in e-learning, on a weekly basis.

 

 

More Information

 

The Course Syllabus is posted at: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~mripol/STA2023/SyllabusSTA2023-SP2013.htm

You can contact the instructor, Maria Ripol, at mripol AT stat.ufl.edu