Instructor: Ramón V. León
Meeting Place and Time: Perkin 60, Tuesday and Thurday 3:40 -4:55 p.m.
Final Exam Place and Time: Perkin 60, December 12, 5:00 - 7:00
Course Home Page: http://web.utk.edu/~leon/stat571/
Textbook: Statistics and Data Analysis: From Elementary to Intermediate by Ajit C. Tamhane and Dorothy D. Dunlop, Prentice Hall, 2000.
Book Report: Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer.You are to turn in a short book report on this book that clearly shows that you have read and understood the book.
Software: SAS JMP Version 6 or 7
Enrolled students may download a one-year license of SAS JMP using
the their NetID and password at https://web.dii.utk.edu/softwaredistribution/
You also need to have access to MS Word. Many comments that I make on you exams submitted via email use advanced MS Word features. You must also have the equations editor of MS Word installed. It may not be good enough for you to have Word Perfect and translate to MS Word format.
You can contact the UT computer store, phone 865-974-2930 or email uccs@tennessee.edu to get an educational version of Microsoft Office which includes MS Word.
Catalog Description: 571 Statistical Methods (3) Data collection strategies. Descriptive statistics. Probability distributions, simulation of random variables, sampling distributions. Estimation and hypothesis testing, regression, Chi-Square test for categorical data, simple design of experiments, nonparametric methods. Use of statistical software. Prereq: 1 yr. of calculus and a statistics course.
Attendance: Strongly encouraged
Homework: Homework will be collected and graded. It should be emailed to the teaching assistant as an Word file to the teaching assistant K. Tao. You may be able to make other arrangements with the teaching assistant.
Tests: There will be two midterm exams and a final exam.
The midterm exams will be take-home, the final is in-class.
Project: You are to find a data set for you to analyze. You will submit a written proposal by email describing the data set, the analysis that you plan to do, and the questions that you plan to answer with your data and analysis. You need to submit with your proposal the JMP file containing your data. Upon my approval of this proposal you are to analyze the data and write a report with your analysis. The report should be submitted by email as an MS Word document attachment. The JMP file with the project data should also be attached. See Project for suggestions.
Grade: Your final grade will be computed as:
Bonus Points: You can also get a bonus point by writing additional book reports. This bonus point will be used to bump your grade up if you are borderline.
Grades will be computed on the usual 90,80,70... scale, unless the class average is low.
Disability: If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a documented disability or if you have emergency information to share, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 191 Hoskins Library at 974-6087. This will ensure that you are properly registered for services.