36-201: Statistical Reasoning --- Spring 1999

Latest news:

• FINAL EXAM INFO, from the Registrar's Office:

  36201   STATISTCL REASONING
  Friday, May 7   1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  UC McConomy Aud.
  

  There will be no makeup exam, so please do not schedule your travel plans to conflict with this exam date.

• Review sheet for the final exam is here. Here are review sheets for the earlier exams:
  • Review sheet for Midterm 1. Solutions here.
  • Review sheet for Midterm 2. Solutions here.
• Old 201 final exams are here.

• Office hours during week of May 3 -- May 7:

  Junker          Tue 2:00-4:00p  Baker Hall 232C
  
  Gitelman        Tue 6:30-8:30p  Porter Hall 226D
  Ianus           THU 5:30-6:30p  Old Student Center 219  [Note Day Change!]
  Mariano         THU 6:30-7:30p  Porter Hall 226D        [Note Day Change!]
  

• Review session for final exam will be Wed May 5 after supper:

  Date:                   Wednesday, May 5, 1999
  Time:                   7:00pm to 8:30pm
  Room:                   Porter Hall 100 [aka Gregg Hall]
  

• Homework: None is assigned, none is due.

  Lab as usual this week (the last week of the semester!)

• Academic Affairs is sponsoring a series of study skills workshops. Read about them here. More generally see the Academic Support Directory and the Academic Development Office (Study Skills, Tutoring, etc.)

The Bare Essentials:

Lecture Time/Place:

9:30--10:20am

Dougherty 2315

Instructor:

Brian Junker

Department of Statistics

Carnegie Mellon University

(412) 268-8873

brian@stat.cmu.edu

Office Hours:

2:00--4:00pm Tuesdays,

Or by appointment!

232C Baker Hall

Head Teaching Assistant:

Lou Mariano

Department of Statistics

Carnegie Mellon University

(412) 268-3970

ltm@stat.cmu.edu

Other Teaching Assistants and Office Hours:

See TA Grid.

When/Where's My Lab???

See TA Grid.

How do I turn in homework?

Turn in your homework at the beginning of lab each week. For details, see the Postscript (.ps) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) handouts.

Syllabus, Announcements, Handouts, etc.:

• The course syllabus is available in PostScript or PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

• Often, there will be three versions of each file on the web.  They will look something like this:

homework1.txt -- Readable by any computer
homework1.pdf -- Readable by Acroread or Acrobat on a Mac or Windows PC (try )
homework1.ps  -- Readable by Ghostview on a Windows PC or a Unix Box

• Data sets from the Siegel and Morgan text.

• Some of the homework will require you to use Minitab outside the regular lab meeting times. A guide to finding Minitab on campus is available in PostScript and Acrobat form. Also note that the Computer Store in Cyert Hall sells a Student Edition of Minitab for about $60.

• A list of times that the Baker Hall 239 Mac Cluster is open to the public.

• Weekly handouts, hw, lab materials, etc., on-line. 
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Miscelleny:

The required texts for this course are
• Moore, D. S. (1996).  Statistics: concepts and controversies.  4th or current edition. NY: WH Freeman.  ISBN: 0-7167-2863-X (paperback)
• Siegel, A. F. and Morgan, C. J. (1996).  Statistics and data analysis: and introduction.  2nd or current edition.  NY: Wiley.  ISBN: 0-471-29332-6 (paperback)
A recommended text for the course is
• Minitab, Inc. (1995).  Minitab Mini-manual: A beginner's guide to Minitab statistical software.  State College PA: Author.  ISBN: 0-925636-31-2. See also the Minitab On-Line Tutorials.
Every Statistics course needs Data.  Here are some initial pointers; more to follow:
• The datasets archive contains many varied data sets, as well as collections of data sets from some books.
• Yale Social Science Libraries' Links to Public Opinion Polling Organziations.
• The Data and Story Library is an "online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods."
• There are several other sites on StatLib which contain data sets. Check out the index on the StatLib home page.
See also the data sources page maintained at the University of Nevada.

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Other Documentation and Resources

• Some generic information for students taking Statistics classes at CMU.
• Resources for Beginning Statistics Students (at all levels!).

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by Brian Junker

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Brian Junker                    (412) 268 - 8873
Department of Statistics        brian@stat.cmu.edu
232 Baker Hall                  FAX: (412) CMU-STAT
Carnegie Mellon University        or (412) 268-7828
Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA

brian@stat.cmu.edu




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