School of Business

STAT 106 (Statistics 1) CRN 50476

Summer 2021

Important dates **CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19 **

The Summer 2021 semester will run online (synchronously) for a 12-week
period. There will be NO mid-term, so the semester will run for 12 weeks.
There is a provision for a final assessment. However, this will be subject to the
local advisory applicable to institutions.

- Classes begin: 13 May, 2021

- Classes end: 31 July, 2021
- Final Assessment period: August 02 – 14, 2021
- Holidays:
14 May 2021 – Friday Id-Ul-Fitr
1 July 2021 – Thursday Canada Day

Faculty Charu Watts

Contact Charu.watts@ufv.ca

Online Class Tuesday – 2:00 to 4:00 pm

Time Friday - 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Office hours
Tuesday – 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm & Friday – 11:00 am to 11:30 am

Prerequisite(s) One of the following: (C or better in one of Pre-calculus 11, Applications of Mathematics 12,
Principles of Mathematics 12, Pre-calculus 12, MATH 092, MATH 096, MATH 110, MATH 124, or
MATH 140) or (C or better in both MATH 094 and MATH 095) or (B or better in Foundations of

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 Mathematics 12) or (a score of 17/25 or better on Part B of the MSAT together with a score of
34/50 or better on Parts A and B combined)..

Calendar An introduction to descriptive statistics, sampling, probability, estimation,

description hypothesis testing, correlation, regression, and analysis of variances,
including multiple linear regression and one-way ANOVA. Facility with Grade
12 level algebra is expected, but no calculus is required. Note: As a general
rule, students with Mathematics 11 are prepared to take STAT 104, those
with Mathematics 12 are prepared to take STAT 106, and those with a full
year of calculus are prepared to take STAT 270/MATH 270. Before
registering, students should check the requirements of their program. The
UFV Mathematics major program requires STAT 270, while the Mathematics
minor program requires STAT 106 or STAT 270. Note: Some degree and
diploma credentials may allow only one of STAT 104 or STAT 106 to count
as credit towards meeting program requirements.

Learning Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
outcomes 1. Construct frequency tables and use numerical and graphical methods to explore qualitative
and quantitative data;
2. Obtain measures of location, dispersion, and relative standing, and interpret;
3. Solve simple problems in probability requiring knowledge of conditional probability and
statistical independence;
4. Solve problems regarding binomial and normal probability models; Draw random sample,
with and without replacement, from a population and identify the sampling distribution of the
sample mean;
5. Construct and interpret confidence intervals for means and proportions;
6. Conduct hypotheses test for means and proportions and interpret p-value;
7. Compare two means and two proportions by constructing confidence intervals and
performing test of hypotheses;
8. Use ANOVA method to test equality of several means;
9. Apply Pearson’s chi-square statistic to draw inferences in appropriate categorical sampling
situations;
10. Apply and interpret simple and multiple linear regression models and the associated
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tables;
11. Use categorical predictors in multiple linear regression by defining indicator (dummy)
variables;
12. Use statistical software to produce graphs and perform statistical analysis.

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Required Book: David M. Levine, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Mark L. Berenson and P.K. Viswanathan, Business
resources statistics, 7th edition, Pearson.

Scientific Calculators are allowed. Statistical software e.g. SPSS, Minitab, Excel will be used for
calculations.

Technology Requirements:
 Fast, stable network connection: 50-100 mpbs download, 5-10 mbps upload
 Wi-Fi 5Ghz connections are preferred over 2.4 Ghz. Please do not rely on wireless
connections in public places such as coffee shops, malls and grocery stores
 No Dial-up: You should not rely on dial-up connections at all
 USB headset/microphone/speakers and webcam
 Desktop or laptop computer on the current versions of Windows or Mac OS
 Use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox: with pop-up blockers off, JavaScript & cookies
enabled and cache cleared
For a full list please see:
https://www.ufv.ca/myclass/technical-requirements/

Methods of Grades will be allocated on the basis of the following:

evaluation Mid Assessment Quiz 10%
Quiz (5) Online MCQ 35% (7% each)
Assignment (5) 30% (6% each)
End Term Quiz 20%
Class Attendance 5%

References Written assignments must use the current APA style of referencing. See also guidelines from
the Academic Success Centre.

English Assignments must be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. Assignments
standards containing such errors will be penalized (i.e. mark deductions up to 20%).

Grading scale Grades will be assigned according to the following scale.

Grade Percent equivalent Grade point value

A+ 90 – 100 4.33

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 A 85 – 89 4.0
A- 80 – 84 3.67
B+ 77 – 79 3.33
B 73 – 76 3.0
B- 70 – 72 2.67
C+ 67 – 69 2.33
C 63 – 66 2.0
C- 60 – 62 1.67
D 50 – 59 1.0
F < 50 (fail) 0.0
FD 0 0.0

Standard percentage equivalencies are used to determine the final letter grade. The final
percentage will be rounded to the nearest integer, using standard mathematical practice (i.e. if
the first digit after the decimal place is 5 or higher, rounding is to the next higher integer)
before converting to a letter grade.

Academic Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, giving and receiving information during
misconduct any test or exam, using unauthorized sources of information during any test; plagiarizing;
fabrication, cheating, and, misrepresenting the work of another person as your own, facilitation
of academic misconduct, and under certain conditions, non-attendance.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated. You must reference your work and acknowledge sources with
in-text citations and a complete list of references. This includes direct and indirect quotes,
diagrams, charts, figures, pictures, and written material.

For group projects, the responsibility for academic integrity, which can result in academic
misconduct and its resulting penalties, rests with each person in the group and sanctions would
be borne by each member.

For more information see UFV Policy 70 on Student Academic Misconduct. Also watch the
videos at www.ufv.ca/ai/faculty/promote-academic-integrity-, www.ufv.ca/asc/academic-
integrity-matters, and www.ufv-aim.ca.

Student Students are required to conduct their behaviour in a mature and responsible manner,
conduct consistent with the University mission, policies, procedures and regulations. Students will be
held accountable for their actions whether acting alone or in a group. Students should

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 familiarize themselves with UFV Policy 204.

Examination Examinations must be written at the scheduled, time, date, and location. The final examination
policy period includes Saturdays.

Writing the final examination at a time other than the one in the posted examination schedule
will only be permitted when a student has a direct conflict between two scheduled
examinations. Two exams on a single day is not considered a valid reason for moving an exam.
Students must notify the affected instructors of a conflict by the end of Week 9 of the class.
Exams may be scheduled at a time or day of the week different from the class meeting time.
You must adjust your schedule accordingly.

Only severe extenuating circumstances (such as serious documented illness) will be accepted as
a reason for not writing an exam as scheduled. In this case, the instructor must be notified by
the student at the earliest possible opportunity, and a doctor's certificate must be provided.

No electronic devices (other than calculators, if required) will be allowed. Where calculators
are allowed, the professor reserves the right to clear the calculator’s memory.

All papers, mobile phones, books, bags, and outer garments must be placed at the front of the
class or under the desk as specified by the instructor.

Assignments Assignment (30%)

There is going to be 5 assignments. Each assignment carries 6 % for assignment submission.

Assignments will be based on the chapters completed as per class schedule. Student
is expected to do hand written assignment before the class time. Submission has to
been done on Black Board only. Submissions that are up to 24 hours late will be
penalized by a 20% grade reduction for the applicable assignment; submissions
that are 24 or more hours late will receive a score of zero. All assignments are
due before starting of the class.

You must retain a copy of each submitted assignment and all working files (including,
but not limited to, draft versions of your assignments, articles cited, interview
transcripts, surveys) until you have received your final grade for the whole course.

By submitting an assignment, you are making a declaration of intellectual integrity. You

are declaring that the work submitted is your own and complies with all regulations

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 stated in the Academic Misconduct section in this syllabus as well as UFV Policy 70.
You are also agreeing to allow your work to be compared against the work of others,
including the use of plagiarism detection software, to detect plagiarism.

Quizzes 35%

There will be 5 quizzes of 7% each which will constitute 35 % of the assessment majorly going
to be online MCQ based quiz. All Quizzes will be held in office hour.

Mid Term Assessment (10%)

A 10 percent mid term assessment (Quiz) will be conducted, it will contain half of the
chapters as per the class schedule. The mid term Quiz will be time based conducted on
blackboard.

End term Assessment: A 20 percent final assessment (Quiz) will be conducted on the
date of the exam, it will be a comprehensive quiz covering all chapters. The Final Quiz
will be time based conducted on blackboard.

Attendance: It is mandatory for a student to attend all classes The attendance would
be taken multiple times and random intervals by teaching associate. You are advised to
be in the entire class otherwise you will be marked absent for the day. Each student
has to login through official email address 15 minutes prior to the class time also,
ensure your web camera is on all the time during the class. Student is expected to
maintain discipline in the entire course.

Note: 1. Please find the link for Minitab software (Windows)

https://getintopc.com/softwares/statistical/minitab-19-1-2019-free-
download/
2. Download the free trial version for 30 Days from Minitab website
https://www.minitab.com/en-us/downloads/

Turnitin Turnitin originality checker will be a mandatory component of this course for the Final
Assignment. Turnitin compares student papers to the current and archived web, other
student work, millions of journal articles and e-books.

Please note that uploading any work into Turnitin is not an assignment dropbox. Your
work must still be submitted here in myClass/in class.

Official Turnitin Statement

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 The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is committed to the fundamental values of
preserving academic integrity as defined in UFV policies. Use of Turnitin contributes to
student success by enabling students to have their papers evaluated for plagiarism by
Turnitin before the work is assessed by an instructor. Students agree that by taking this
course, assignments may be required to be submitted to Turnitin.com or that the
instructor may submit questionable text on behalf of a student. Students will be required
to create an account with Turnitin and to submit their work via that account, on the
terms stipulated in the agreement between the student and Turnitin. This agreement
includes the retention of your submitted work as part of the Turnitin database. Students
should be aware that Turnitin servers reside in the United States. Accordingly, students
may use an anonymous identity in their interactions with Turnitin. Students who have
concerns about the Turnitin tool should consult with their instructor in advance of any
submission deadline.

Course Schedule

Week Class Topics Readings Worksheets/

Tests
1 18/05/2021 Course Outline Course
Outline
Defining and Collecting Data.
I.1 Defining Variables.
I.2 Collecting Data. Chapter 1
I.3 Types of Sampling Methods.
I.4 Types of Survey Errors.
21/05/2021 Organising and Visualizing Variables. Chapter 2
I.1 Organizing Categorical Variables.
I.2 Organizing Numerical Variables
I.3 Visualizing Categorical Variables
I.4 Visualizing Numerical Variables.
I.5 Visualizing Two Numerical Variables.
I.6 Organizing and Visualizing a Set of Variables
2 25/05/2021 Numerical Descriptive Measure Chapter 3
I.7 Central Tendency
I.8 Variation and Shape.
I.9 Quartiles
28/05/2021 Numerical Descriptive Measure Chapter 3
3.4 Numerical Descriptive Measures for a Population.

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 3.5 The Covariance and the Coefficient of Correlation
3 1/06/2021 Revision

4/06/2021 Basic Probability Chapter -4 Assignment 1

4.1 Basic Probability Concepts due Quiz 1 (1-3)
4.2 Conditional Probability
4.3 Baye’s Theorem
4 8/06/2021 Discrete Probability Distributions Chapter 5 Assignment 2 due
5.1 The Probability Distribution of a Discrete Variable:
Expected Value, Variance and Standard Deviation.
5.2 Binomial Distribution
5.3 Poisson Distribution
11/06/2021 Normal distribution Chapter 6 Quiz 2 (4-5)
6.1 Continuous Probability Distributions.
6.2 The Normal Distribution.
6.3 Evaluating Normality

5 15/06/2021 Sampling Distributions Chapter 7

7.1 Sampling Distributions
7.2 Sampling Distribution of the Mean
7.3 Sampling Distribution of the Proportion
18/06/2021 Confidence Interval Estimation
8.1 Confidence Interval Estimation for the Mean (
known)
8.2 Confidence Interval Estimation for the Mean ( Chapter 8
not known)
6 22/06/2021 Confidence Interval Estimation Chapter 8
8.3 Confidence Interval Estimation for the Proportion
8.4 Determining Sample size
25/06/2021 Class test Chapter 1- Mid term Quiz (1-
8 7)
29/06/2021 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One sample Chapter 9 Assignment 3
7 tests. due
9.1 Hypotheses Testing Methodology, Z-test for the
Mean.
9.2 t- test of hypothesis for the mean
2/07/2021 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One sample Chapter 9
tests.
9.3 One tail Tests
9.4 Z-test of hypothesis for the proportion.

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 8 6/07/2021 Two Sample Tests and ANOVA Chapter 10 Quiz 3( 6-8)
10.1 Comparing the Means of Two Independent
Populations.
10.2 Comparing the Means of Two Related
Populations.
9/07/2021 Two Sample Tests and ANOVA Chapter 10
10.3 Comparing the Proportions of Two Independent
Populations
10.4 F-test for the Ratio of Two Variances
9 13/07/2021 Two Sample Tests and ANOVA Chapter 10
10.5 One Way and Two Way ANOVA
16/07/2021 Practice session/ doubt session Chapter 6-
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10 20/07/2021 Chi-square Tests Chapter 11 Assignment 4
due
11.1 Chi-Square Test for the Difference Between Two
Proportions.
11.2 Chi-Square Test for the Difference Among More
Than Two Proportions.
23/07/2021 Chi-square Tests Chapter 11
11.3 Chi-square Test of independence
Doubt Removal (Chapter 9 and 10)
11 27/07/2021 Simple Linear Regression Chapter 12 Quiz 4 (9-10)
12.1 Types of Regression Models
12.2 Determining the Simple Regression Equation
30/07/2021 Simple Linear regression Chapter 12
12.3 Measures of Variation
12.4 Assumptions of Regression
12.5 Inference about the Slope and Correlation
Coefficients
12 31/07/2021 Multiple Regression Chapter 13 Assignment 5 Due
13.1 Developing a Multiple Regression Model. Quiz 5 (11-12)
13.2 r2, Adjusted r2, F-test for overall significance Rescheduled

Note: There may be rescheduling of the classes, it’s student responsibility to check
their email and Blackboard for any change in the course outline.