STA 2023 Information

Announcements STA 2023 – Spring 2012

Wed May 2, 2012

GRADES are now POSTED in the Gradebook

You will find several new items:

· Final Exam Grade (with the one point already added)

· L&QGRADE – all your labs and regular quizzes added together and capped at 102 pts

· TotalPts in the class (adding all three exams, L&QGRADE and both extra credit quizzes)

· You can compute your class percentage by dividing your TotalPts by 400

· GradePt – since e-Learning doesn’t let me upload letter grades, I posted it as a number:

o A = 4.00

o A- = 3.67

o B+ = 3.33

o B = 3.0

o B- = 2.67

o C+ = 2.33

o C = 2.0

o C- = 1.67

o D+ = 1.33

o D = 1.0

o D- = 0.67

o E = 0.0

Please note that these grades are FINAL and have been submitted to the Registrar

There were plenty of opportunities for extra credit during the semester, and now we are done!

HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!!!!

EXAM 3 SATURDAY April 28, 7:30 – 9:30 am IN THE MORNING!!!!

More information posted HERE – all room assignments are the same as exams 1 and 2.

Practice Exam Questions posted on e-Learning Link.

CONFLICTS must let me know by TUESDAY APRIL 17

NOTE:

EXAM RESULTS and FINAL GRADES in the class should be posted by 4pm Wed 5/2

Want More Stats?

· STA3024 covers statistical inference procedures to compare three or more groups

· Consider majoring or minoring in Statistics if you have a strong math background and are interested in the theory behind these methods. Why?

o Statistics is the Sexy Job of the next 10 years

o Why Statistics?

o Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.

o How Companies Learn Your Secrets

o The Age of Big Data

o What are the odds that statistics would get this popular?

Weeks 15 and 16: April 16 – April 27

Evaluations: Go to https://evaluations.ufl.edu to conduct the online evaluations for your TA and instructor.

Lectures:

Mon 4/16 and Wed 4/18 – Review all topics for Final Exam

NOTE: LAST LECTURE will be WED 4/18

Print Review Topics to cover in class and a few more examples

Lab 10:

Activity 19 will be done during lab the week of April 16 – 20. This is the last lab.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook, and turn it in before you leave.

Quiz 10:

Done in e-Learning - covers Inference for Two Independent Means, Matched Pairs

Open Mon April 16 1:00 pm - Thu April 19 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

This is the last real quiz.

NOTE: There was a problem with the grading when the quiz first opened – giving negative points for a question. I had to close the quiz around 2:30pm on Monday to fix it, and then reopened with a new name: Quiz 10 – Spring – Fixed. Everyone has 3 chances for this quiz, but please READ the questions very carefully – some are very similar but have different answers. If you took the quiz with the problem, please take the new one. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Extra Credit Quiz 2:

Done in e-Learning - covers Relative Risk, McNemar’s Test, Choosing which Case

Open Mon April 16 1:00 pm - Thu April 26 11:59 pm (ten days)

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Instructor Office Hours:

Monday 4/16 and Wednesday 4/18 – regular office hours 2:00 – 3:30 pm

Friday 4/27 – office hours 2:00 – 4:00pm

I will be out of town and will NOT hold office hours Friday 4/20 to Wednesday 4/25. The Tutoring Room will be open, and the Lab Coordinator, Ms. Mocko, will have regular office hours during those days.

Tutoring Room:

You can still go see your scantron and a copy of the test with answers in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104. Open regular hours both weeks, including reading days. Will close for the semester Friday 4/27 at 3pm.

Grades Posted:

Please check each week that your grades are recorded properly and notify us of any problems immediately. For quiz grade problems, contact the instructor, Maria Ripol; for lab grade problems, contact your TA. See link for contact information.

Lab 9 – posted Monday 4/16 in the afternoon

Lab 10 – should be posted by Tuesday 4/24

ALL GRADE PROBLEMS MUST BE REPORTED IMMEDIATELY – LAST DAY FOR REPORTING PROBLEMS WITH LAB OR QUIZ GRADES IS WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 (last day of classes).

GRADE CALCULATOR – enter your grades to see how you are doing in the class.

Week 14: April 9 – April 13

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Confidence Intervals and Significance Tests for comparing 2 groups. For next week, PRINT Review Topics to cover in class and a few more examples

Article on Relative Risk: Red Meat increases risk of death by 13%

Lab 9:

Activity 18 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 9:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Relationship between Confidence Intervals and Significance Tests, Type I and Type II Errors, CI and Sig Tests for two independent proportions

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

You can still go see your scantron and a copy of the test with answers in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104 – see link for hours.

Grades Posted:

Please check each week that your grades are recorded properly and notify us of any problems immediately. For quiz grade problems, contact the instructor, Maria Ripol; for lab grade problems, contact your TA. See link for contact information. The following grades are now posted in e-Learning:

Labs		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Exams		1	2

GRADE CALCULATOR – enter your grades to see how you are doing in the class.

Week 13: April 2 – April 6

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – finish Significance Tests for one group (ch 9) and start Statistical Inference for comparing two groups (ch 10)

Lab 8:

Activity 16 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 8:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Significance Tests for means

NOTE: Make sure to use the t table from OUR book to find p-values (see link)

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Starting Wed 4/4 you will be able to see your scantron and a copy of the test with answers in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104 – see link for hours.

Exam Viewing Rules

· NO MORE than 3 students allowed at once in the Tutoring Room to look at their exams.

· Use a MARKER (there are some in the box) if you want to mark the questions you got wrong. NO PENCILS OR ERASERS allowed. Your answers have been electronically recorded by the scantron machine.

· There were 33 questions at 3 points each. The last point was awarded to those that correctly bubbled in their UFID#, Test Form Code and personal information.

· Students are NOT allowed to take the scantrons out of the tutoring room under any circumstances. If there is an issue that can't be resolved by the TA, the TA should bring the scantron to the instructor, not the student.

· Students who did not complete a scantron will have to come to the Instructor’s office hours to see their tests.

Office Hours:

Instructor’s Office Hours are normally MWF 2 – 3:30 pm. However, this Friday 4/6 they will be held from

10 – 11:30 am instead

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Exams		1	2

Note: EXAM 2 grades are NOW POSTED (except for makeup exams). Click on link above for class results. These grades already include the 1 point for bubbling things correctly. If you did NOT get that point there will be a comment for you in e-Learning.

GRADE CALCULATOR – enter your grades to see how you are doing in the class.

Week 12: March 26 – March 30

EXAM 2 Wed March 28, 8:20 – 10:00 pm (AT NIGHT)

More information posted HERE – all room assignments are the same as exam 1.

Practice Exam Questions posted on e-Learning Link.

Lectures:

Q&A for Exam 2 will be done in class Wednesday. Please email me your questions (max 3 per student) by 9 am and I will answer them in class. These can be questions from quizzes, practice test, homework, lectures, etc.

We will also continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Significance Tests for Means

True/False from Activity 14 – for you to review

NO Lab:

No Labs during Exam week

NO NEW Quiz:

No Quiz during Exam week

NOTE- There were many issues trying to access quiz 7 in e-learning last week. Because of this and the fact the quiz includes material that we covered in class this week I will EXTEND the quiz until Monday and give everyone a FOURTH try.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here. Tutoring Room will close at 7pm the day of the exam and will remain closed the rest of this week. It will reopen next Monday morning.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Exams		1

Week 11: March 19 – March 23

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Significance Tests

Exam 2 Review in class starting Friday or next Monday: PRINT Review Topics

Q&A for Exam 2–Wednesday 3/28 in class. Please email me your questions (max 3 per student) by 9 am that day and I will answer them in class. These can be questions from quizzes, practice test, homework, lectures, etc.

Wednesday and Friday continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Sampling Distributions

Lab 7:

Activity 14 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 7:

NOTE- There were many issues trying to access the quiz in e-learning this week. Because of this and the fact the quiz includes material that we covered in class this week I will EXTEND the quiz until Monday and give everyone a FOURTH try.

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Interpretation and Behavior of Confidence Intervals, Sample Size Determination AND basics of Significance Tests for Proportions from this week

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

LAST WEEK to see your scantron for exam 1 in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104 – see link for hours and week 8 for more details.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4	5	6
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Exams		1

Week 10: March 12 – March 16

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – more Confidence Intervals and Sample Size Determination

NOTE: Wed 3/14 microphone had a lot of static, particularly at the end. I will go over last part again on Friday.

Lab 6:

Activity 12 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Link: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/ph/sampledist.html

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 6:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week (more examples done this week): Confidence Intervals for means and proportions

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

You can still see your scantron for exam 1 in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104 – see link for hours and week 8 for more details.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4	5
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5	6
Exams		1

Week 9: March 5 – March 9 SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

Week 8: Feb 27 – March 2

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – more Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals

Lab 5:

Activity 11 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Link: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/ph/sampledist.html

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 5:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week (and Monday’s lecture which includes more examples): Sampling Distributions for means and proportions

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Starting Wed 2/29 you will be able to see your scantron and a copy of the test with answers in our Tutoring Room in Griffin Floyd 104 – see link for hours.

Exam Viewing Rules

· NO MORE than 3 students allowed at once in the Tutoring Room to look at their exams.

· Use a MARKER (there are some in the box) if you want to mark the questions you got wrong. NO PENCILS OR ERASERS allowed. Your answers have been electronically recorded by the scantron machine.

· There were 33 questions at 3 points each. The last point was awarded to those that correctly bubbled in their UFID#, Test Form Code and personal information.

· Students who did not complete a scantron will have to come to the Instructor’s office hours to see their tests.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4	5
Exams		1

NOTE: Exam 1 Grades are now posted in e-Learning – click on link for class results. These grades already include the 1 point for bubbling things correctly. If you did NOT get that point there will be a comment for you in e-Learning. Makeup exams are also posted.

Week 7: Feb 20 – Feb 24

EXAM 1 Wed Feb 22, 8:20 – 10:00 pm (AT NIGHT)

More information including room assignments posted HERE.

Practice Exam Questions posted on e-Learning Link.

Lectures:

Q&A for Exam 1–Monday in class. Please email me your questions (max 3 per student) by Monday at 9am and I will answer them in class. These can be questions from quizzes, practice test, homework, lectures, etc.

Wednesday and Friday continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Sampling Distributions

NO Lab:

No Labs during Exam week

NO Quiz:

No Quiz during Exam week

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3	4
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4

Week 6: Feb 13 – Feb 17

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Binomial Distributions

Start Exam Review Friday 2/17: PRINT Review Topics

Lab 4:

Activity 10 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Link:  http://www.housing.ufl.edu/facilities/rates.php

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 4:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Probability and Probability Distributions (Discrete, Uniform Continuous and Normal)

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2	3
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3	4

Week 5: Feb 6 – Feb 10

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Probability and Probability Distributions (Discrete, Uniform Continuous and Normal)

Lab 3:

Activity 8 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 3:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Contingency Tables, Cautions in Associations, Surveys, Experiments and Observational Studies

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1	2
Quizzes	EC	1	2	3

Week 4: Jan 30 – Feb 3

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Cautions in Associations, Surveys, Experiments and Observational Studies

Lab 2:

Activity 6 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Link: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~mmeece/2023/Lab2.htm

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 2:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: Contingency Tables, Correlation and Regression.

Open Mon 1:00 pm - Thu 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Grades Posted:

Labs		1
Quizzes	EC	1	2

Week 3: Jan 23 – Jan 27

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Contingency Tables, Correlation and Regression

1/25 Lecture has NO SOUND for first minute – please fast forward until you see me finally putting the microphone on... Sorry about that.

Lab 1:

Activity 4 will be done during lab and turned in before you leave.

Please remember to go to the lab you are registered for, be on time, and bring the Lab Worksheet

from the back of your workbook.

Quiz 1:

Done in e-Learning - covers the material from last week: graphs and numerical summaries.

Open Mon Jan 23, 1:00 pm - Thu Jan 26, 11:59 pm

Quiz is worth 6 points, you have 3 chances and the highest score counts.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc.

A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Week 2: Jan 16 – Jan 20

Lectures:

Continue lectures following Lab Workbook – Graphs and Numerical Summaries

NO Lab:

There will be no lab this week – Monday is a holiday and we don’t want to get off schedule. First real lab starts next week (Jan 23 – Jan 27). See Calendar link for upcoming labs and quizzes.

Tutoring Room:

Available for all students to get help with suggested homework problems, material from lecture, quizzes, etc. A copy of the textbook and the solutions manual are available here.

Extra Credit Quiz:

Continues until Thu Jan 19, 11:59 pm

e-Learning:

Everyone should have access to the e-Learning site by the second week of classes. If you are registered and cannot see the course under “my Active Sites”, please email me including your name, gatorlink username and UFID#.

Week 1: Jan 9 – Jan 13

Lectures:

First online lecture will be ready to view in e-learning e-Learning starting Monday around 1 pm. Lectures will also be available here (just for the first week or so) for those who are still dealing with drop/add. Students will need to have the Lab Workbook for Wednesday’s lecture.

Intro Lab:

TA’s will provide information about the course

Tutoring Room:

will open Thursday Jan 12, see schedule

Extra Credit Quiz:

Online quiz in e-Learning - covers the rules of the course. Open Mon Jan 9, 1:00 pm - Thu Jan 19, 11:59 pm

2 points extra credit, 3 chances, highest score counts. Note – this extra credit quiz will go on for over a week because of Drop/Add. Regular quizzes will only go on for 4 days.

e-Learning:

After logging on to e-Learning, please make sure you scroll all the way to the right and check under “my Active Sites” for to see the complete list of courses and information on how to hide old course sites. If you registered recently, it can take a few days to show up on your list of available courses. e-Learning: http://lss.at.ufl.edu/

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 5^th 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 5^th 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.

Required 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.

Lab Workbook

· 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.

· Lab Workbook for Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Megan Mocko and Maria Ripol, 2nd edition, Pearson.

Textbook

· Textbook can be purchased New, Used or as an Ebook.

· Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin, 2nd edition, Pearson, 2009.

ISBN Numbers

· Lab Workbook ISBN: 0136037356

· Textbook ISBN: 0135131995

· Ebook ISBN: 0558064620 http://www.pearsoncustom.com/fl/ufl_stat

· Bundled Text and Lab Workbook ISBN: 0321533372

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 σ_n-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 for Spring 2012 is posted at http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~mripol/STA2023/SyllabusSTA2023-SP2012.htm

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