Syllabus
Elementary Statistics

Elementary Statistics

MATH-1342

Credit Fall 2018
08/27/2018 - 12/16/2018

Course Information

Section 024
Distance Learning
ONL DIL
Gustavo Cepparo

Office Hours

  • Su
    4:20 - 4:40 pm
    HLC room 2414
  • M W
    4:40 - 6:40 pm
    NRG room 2141
  • T Th
    9:00 - 9:20 pm
    NRG room 2141

Course Requirements

Students are expected to do the following each week:

  1. Cover approximately 3 sections of the text, using learning materials selected from readings and videos.
  2. Do online homework in WileyPlus.
  3. Do written work (Projects) involving solving problems by hand,  solving problems with software, and documenting notes, comments.
  4. Participate in the class Discussion Board about the statstical content.
  5. Take tests in a Testing Center

Tests:   The material in this course is very much cumulative, so the tests are also somewhat cumulative.
(The coverage for the individual tests may be adjusted during the semester.)

Readings

Required materials:

·         Textbook: Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, by Lock, Lock, Lock-Morgan, Lock, and Lock. 2nd ed. 2017  Wiley Publishing Company.   Begin by signing up for a free 14-day trial of the materials from the publisher's website.  The URL at which to sign up will be available about a week before the class begins.

·         Computer access to the Internet, appropriate to use the WileyPlus materials and to download and save data files, make screenshots, and to prepare and upload word-processing files.

·         Technology appropriate to scan handwritten pages to a pdf document to upload to Blackboard each weekend.  (Can be done in any ACC Library)

·         Access to a scientific calculator (not in a cellphone) during Testing Center tests.  (Use your own or borrow one from the Testing Center or check one out from the library.)

·         Binder, notebook paper, index cards, pens and pencils to take notes and make flash cards.   

 
As with most books, there are multiple ways to purchase it.

* Just WileyPlus. From the publisher. (Cost: $80)  There is a specific URL for this class and that will be provided to you by the Wednesday before classes begin in an announcement in Blackboard.  You can use it for 14 days and then pay for it.  (Recommended method)   At the time you pay for it, you can choose to also purchase a looseleaf copy of the book for $30. 

*  In a package from the ACC bookstore ISBN  978-1-119-25425-6 : a folder with the access code for WileyPlus  and a looseleaf version of the text for about $137.    Cannot be returned after the shrink-wrapped package is opened.
 
*Rent or purchase an e-book. This DOES NOT INCLUDE WileyPlus, so you'll have to purchase it separately for about $80.

Course Subjects

Calendar for Math 1342 Elementary Statistics DL (You must use ACC-email)

Week 1

Date: 8/27

Chapter 1 Material: (Complete Orientation)

Section 1.1 (The Structure of Data)

Date: 8/29

Chapter 1 Material:

Section 1.2 (Sampling from a Population) and Section 1.3 (Experiments and Observational Studies)

Date: 9/2

Complete Section 1.1, Section 1.2 and Section 1.3 online homework (due Sunday 9/2).  Download Project 1 from Blackboard and start working on problems from Chapter 1.

In the event you cannot complete the WileyPlus online work by Sunday night, every week there is a grace period till Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.

 

 

 

Week 2

Date: 9/3

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.1 (Categorical Variables)

Date: 9/5

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.2 (One Quantitative Variable: Shape and Center) and Section 2.3 (One Quantitative Variable: Measures of Spread)

Date: 9/9

Complete Section 2.1, Section 2.2 and Section 2.3 online homework (due Sunday 9/9).  Work on Project 1 Chapter 2 problems (due 9/13).

In the event you cannot complete the work by Sunday night, every week there is a grace period till Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.

 

Project 1 (due in Blackboard under Projects on Thursday, 9/13 by 11:55 p.m.) There is no grace period for Projects.

 

 

 

Week 3

Date: 9/10

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.4 (Boxplots and Quantitative/Categorical Relationships)

Date: 9/12

 

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.5 (Two Quantitative Variables: Scatterplot and Correlation)

Date: 9/16

 Complete Section 2.4 and Section 2.5 online homework.  Download Project 2 from Blackboard and start working on problems from Chapter 2.

In the event you cannot complete the work by Sunday night, every week there is a grace period till Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 4

Date: 9/17

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.6 (Two Quantitative Variables: Linear Regression)

and Test 1 at Testing Center for Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4: Test 1 will be in the Testing Center from (9/17 to 9/27). 

Date: 9/19

Chapter 2 Material

Section 2.7 (Data Visualization and Simpson’s Paradox)

Date: 9/23

Complete Section 2.6 online homework.  Work on Project 2 Chapter 2 problems (due 9/27).

 

In the event you cannot complete the work by Sunday night, every week there is a grace period till Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.

Project 2 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 9/27 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

Week 5

Date: 9/24

Chapter 3 Material

Section 3.1 (Sampling Distribution) and Section 3.2 (Understanding and Interpreting Confidence Intervals)

Date: 9/26

Chapter 3 Material

Section 3.3 (Constructing Bootstrap Confidence Intervals) and Section 3.4 (Bootstrap Confidence Intervals using Percentiles)

 

Date: 9/30

Complete Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 online homework.  Download Project 3 from Blackboard and start working.

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

Week 6

Date: 10/1

Chapter 4 Material

Section 4.1(Introducing Hypothesis Tests)

Date: 10/3

Section 4.2 (Measuring Evidence with P-values) and Section 4.3 (Determining Statistical Significance)

Date: 10/7

Complete Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 online homework.  Work on Project 3 problems (due 10/11).

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

Project 3 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 10/11 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

Week 7

Date: 10/8

Chapter 4 Material

Section 4.4 (A Closer Look at Testing) 

Date: 10/10

Chapter 4 Material

Section 4.5 (Making Connections)

Date: 10/14

Complete Sections 4.4 and 4.5 online homework.  Download Project 4 from Blackboard and start working.

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

Week 8

Date: 10/15

Chapter 6 Material (Three Sections 6.1)

Inference for a Proportion

Section 6.1-D (Distribution of a Proportion) and Test 2 at Testing Center for Sections 2.6, 2.7 and Chapters 3, 4: Test 2 will be in the Testing Center from (10/16 to 10/23)

Date: 10/17

Chapter 6 Material

Section 6.1-CI (Confidence Interval for a Proportion) and Section 6.1-HT (Hypothesis Testing for a Proportion)

Date: 10/21

Complete Sections 6.1-D, 6.1-CI and 6.1-HT online homework.  Work on Project 3 problems (due 10/25).

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

Project 4 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 10/25 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

 

Week 9

Date: 10/22

Chapter 6 Material (Three Sections 6.2)

Inference for a Mean

Section 6.2-D (Distribution of a Mean)

Date: 10/24

Section 6.2-CI (Confidence Interval for a Mean) and Section 6.2-HT (Hypothesis Testing for a Mean)

Date: 10/28

Complete Sections 6.2-D, 6.2-CI and 6.2-HT online homework.  Download Project 5 from Blackboard and start working.

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10

Date: 10/29

Chapter 6 Material (Three Sections 6.3)

Inference for a Difference in Proportions

Section 6.3-D (Distribution of a Difference in Proportions)

Date: 10/31

Section 6.3-CI (Confidence Interval for a Difference in Proportions) and Section 6.3-HT (Hypothesis Testing for a Difference in Proportions)

Date: 11/4

Complete Sections 6.3-D, 6.3-CI and 6.3-HT online homework.  Work on Project 5 problems (due 11/8)

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

Project 5 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 11/8 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

Week 11

Date: 11/5

Chapter 6 Material (Three Sections 6.4)

Inference for a Difference in Means

Section 6.4-D (Distribution of a Difference in Means)

Date: 11/7

Section 6.4-CI (Confidence Interval for a Difference in Means) and Section 6.4-HT (Hypothesis Testing for a Difference in Means)

Date: 11/11

Complete Sections 6.4-D, 6.4-CI and 6.4-HT online homework.  Download Project 6 from Blackboard and start working.

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

Week 12

Date: 11/12

Chapter 6 Material (Section 6.5)

Paired Difference in Means

Test 3 at Testing Center for Chapter 6 (includes Section 6.5). Test 3 will be in the Testing Center from (4/14 to 4/21)

Date: 11/14

Chapter 7 (Sections 7.1 and 7.2)

Section 7.1 (Testing for Goodness-of-Fit for a Single Categorical Variable) and Section 7.2 (Testing for an Association between Two Categorical Variables)

Date: 11/18

Complete Sections 6.5, 7.1 and 7.2 online homework.  Work on Project 6 problems (due 11/22)

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

Project 6 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 11/22 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 13

Date: 11/19

Chapter 8 Material

Section 8.1 (Analysis of Variance)

Date: 11/21

Section 8.2 (Pairwise Comparison and Inference after ANOVA)

Date: 11/25

Complete Sections 8.1 and 8.2 online homework.  Download Project 7 from Blackboard and start working.

In the event you cannot complete the work (you have till Tuesday at 11:55 p.m.)

 

 

Week 14

Date: 11/26

Chapter 9 Material

Section 9.1 (Inference for Slope and Correlation)

Date: 11/28

Section 9.3 (Confidence and Prediction Intervals)

Date: 12/2

Complete Sections 9.1 and 9.3 online homework.  Work on Project 7 problems (due 12/7)

Project 7 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 12/7 by 11:55 p.m.)

Download Project 8 from Blackboard and start working.

 

Week 15

Date: 12/3

Project 8 (due in Blackboard under Projects, 12/13 by 11:55 p.m.)

 

Final Exam WeekTest 4 will be in the Testing Center from (12/4 to 12/11)

Test 4 at Testing Center (Chapter 6 and Sections 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1 and 9.3).

“Please note:  schedule changes may occur during the semester. Any changes will be announced by email and discussion board.”

 

 

Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives

Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:

1. Explain the use of data collection and statistics as tools to reach reasonable conclusions.

2. Recognize, examine, and interpret the basic principles of describing and presenting data.

3. Compute and interpret empirical and theoretical probabilities.

4. Explain the role of probability in statistics.

5. Examine, analyze, and compare various sampling distributions for both discrete and continuous random variables.

6. Describe and compute confidence intervals.

7. Solve linear regression and correlation problems.

8. Perform hypothesis testing using statistical methods.

The General Education Competency of

1)      Critical Thinking – gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and applying information - is covered in every SLO.

2)      Quantitative and Empirical Reasoning – applying mathematical, logical, and scientific principles and methods - is covered in every SLO.

3)      Technology Skills- using appropriate technology to retrieve, manage, analyze, and present information - is covered in SLOs # 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

4)      Written, Oral and Visual Communication – communicating effectively, adapting to purpose, structure, audience, and medium is covered in every SLO.

Learning Objectives:

 1. Interpret ideas of population versus sample, random variables, and techniques of descriptive statistics including frequency distributions, histograms, boxplots, and scatterplots.

2. Calculate and interpret measures of central tendency and dispersion, including mean, median, standard deviation, and quartiles.

3. Find and use empirical probabilities in bootstrap distributions to find confidence intervals and in randomization distributions to test hypotheses. 

4. Find and use theoretical probabilities from normal, t, chi-squared and F distributions to  form confidence intervals and test hypotheses. Apply the 95% rule to normal distributions and to approximately normal distributions.

5. Analyze relationships between two quantitative variables using correlation and linear regression.

6. Analyze data presented in two-way tables to provide information about relationships between categorical variables.

7. Apply ideas of appropriate sampling techniques and experimental design to data production.

8. Use the sampling distributions of sample proportions and sample means to answer appropriate questions.

9. Estimate single means, difference of two means, single proportions and difference of two proportions using confidence intervals. Interpret the results.

10. Demonstrate skills in hypothesis testing for means and proportions, for single populations and comparison of two populations.

11. Demonstrate skills in hypothesis testing using chi-squared tests.

12. Demonstrate skills in inference for regression and ANOVA techniques.

 

Throughout the course, students will use statistical applets to do computations and produce graphical displays needed to analyze data.  Students will do some statistical calculations by hand with a scientific calculator.