STA220HLF: The Practice of Statistics 1- Summer 2018 Department of Statistical Sciences - University of Toronto Lecture: Twstdaysané Tharsdays 7:10pm 10:00pm in Earth Sciences Centr ES1050 Instructor: Asal Astemard Ortice Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00pm — 6 Jey Smith S63B E-mail Addras:araaslomand/amaiL toronto ca ‘Note: Please we your UofT email addres when sending me an e-mail pm in ‘Tutorial Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays (Starting Thursday, May 104) 6: ‘Tutorial Reoms and Teaching Assistants: Please se page 0pm — 7pm document, ‘Welcome to STARI0, Course Deseript This course will provide an ituitve introduction to fundamental statistical concepts and reasoning, The course will cover methocs of data collection, constructing effective graphical and numerical displays estimating and describing the natural variability in dsta, and the key ideas in how statistical tests canbe used to separate significant differences from those tha are ony a reflection ofthe natural ‘variability in dats, Course Text Book: Stas: Data and Models. DeVeaux, Velleman, Bock, Vukov,& Wong. Third Canadian edition, Pearson Canada Publication, Statistical Software Wel me R Staite ves for performing tases aasis. @ Studio 4 Youncedo is download (afi sits paclage) fom: hips, 4 Afr downloading R dovnload tuo ise verso) fom: % [ill provide you wit video instructions regarding how to download R on your computer and any ‘course activity that you need to use R for completing it.The instructions will be posted on portal. Caleutato You will eed to use. very bse caleulator fr tutorial, test, and final exam, (One that allows you to add, stbtract, multiply, divide, and tke a square root. Note: Phone calculators ‘or any other communicating devies are NOT allowed during the midterm test, and the final examCourse Components: ioduce you 10 important statistical ideas and will guide you through useing statistical examples to develop your statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking. Moreover, every Tecture wil build on the naterils discussed inthe previous one. This means that statistical concepts are logically connected. Ihighly recommend tat you atend the lectures regulary. ‘Weekly Tutorials Preparations and Worksheets): “Tutoriale art om Thuredey, May 10®. Thee re total schedule inthe cours, Prior o each tutorial, I wil poston pota— in the “Tutorial Preparation” content folder ~ information regerding your upcoming tutorial preparation. These include a set of practice problems, which ae eted to the previous lecture’s cortents. Some ofthe assigned problems require that ou use RS to analyze a set of data, You need to bring the printouts of your statistical analyses, which we refer to them as R outputs, to your tutorial and willbe required to hand them ina the end of you tutorial. 1 will provide you withthe necessary instructions ~both intext and video formats ~ that you nood for ‘completing each tutorials R activity In each tutorial you wll ceive a worksheet, which is based on the previous ecture's contents. ‘You may need to refer to your R outputs to answer questions on tutorial worksheets. You may work ‘on each worksheet with smaller group of peers in your tutorial and your TA will facilitate group collaboration and discussion. You are expected to complete your ovin Worksheet during each {wioral session, but you may discuss ideas with your peers. The completion of each tutorial ‘worksheet will account fer your weekly tatarial participations. Your TA will mark your completed ‘weekly worksheets and wil return them to You atthe nex tutorial, Please keep all your marked ‘worksheets for your recon in ease of any discrepancy of mark input on your Portal's Gade Centre Data Analysis Project: ‘There is one data analysis project inthis course, which is due in you tutorial on Thursday, June 7 Deas regarding the projct wil be made availabe two weeks prio the due date. The objective of this project isto give youthe opportunity in using some of the statistical techniques that you have leamed in exploring rea dataset. You may work individually or in groups of three or four students from the clas (your group members can be from different tutorials). You ae required to submit a eonese written report of your data analysis. Instructions will be provided in advance of | the project's due date. Course incentive up to 2% (added to course grade): In addition to submiting the writen report ofthis project, you are weleome to make a visual presentation (eg, 3-D model, video, panting, “lke any ofthese forms: -D model, panting, drawing, concept map, or mind map, please tke a picture of your work Print your piture in COLOUR, and sate oni you fist and lastname and student umber ard submit it to me (Asal) in class on Thursday, June 7. Aer viewing the Picture of your work, I may ask you to bring it wth you to our class on Tuesday June 12" > ima form ofan audio ce video format, you can email your link to me on Thursday, une 7, > pamphlet, you can stbmitit to me in class o electronically on Thursday, June 7,‘+ Midterm Test and Final Exam: {A I-hour and 4$-minutes midterm tet willbe given, which covers topes from lectures 110 6. It ‘will consist of 30 mutiplechoice questions. A three-hour final exam willbe given during the Final ‘exam period, which covers the entire course. I will consist of 50 multple-choive questions. ‘You are allowed “aid shes()": one forthe midterm tes, an two forthe final exam, but no other bbooksinotes. The ai sects) must be handwritten by you and you may use both sides ofthe shee ‘You need to have acalcuator for the test and the final exam. ‘Course Assessments: Type ‘Number of Oseurrence Due Dates Weight Tuioril Worksheets 10 (best oF 10 ae counted) | Before Lectures: 6:10pm — 7pm in Tutorials | 20% Starting Thursday, May 10% No Tutorial Session on the Day ofthe Test Midterm Test T a 3% Data Analysis Projest T Thursday, Jane 7™ Gn Totorals) 10% Final Exam i "TBA (Scheduled During Examination Pamod) | a0? “Total | 100% Missed Tutorials and/or Midterm Test: 4+ There are no makeup tutorials or makeup test ‘Ifyou miss a tutorial, it wil become your lowest tatoral worksheet mark (mark of zero), but it willbe the ‘one you drop, ‘+ Ifyou miss more than one tutorial ori you miss the midterm test with a valid reason inorder to be excused you must submit fo me (Asal) an appropriate documentation (e.g, U of T medical certificate) Within on calendar week ofthe nissed tuoval andlor missed midterm test ‘+ Uof medical cemticate can be esrieved from this lnk se lease, print on it your nme, silent number, course number, and the date, ‘+ Ifthe midterm test is missed fora valid reasoa, its weigh wil be shifted to the faa exam, In that ease, your final exam will account for 70% of your taal course grade. ‘+ Ifa tutorial is missed fora valid reason, will tll drop your lowest tutorial worksheet mark among the remaining tutorials and will calculate your tutorial worksheet average accordingly. ‘Note that Iwill pu the code: 1" for an excused missed assessment (eg, worksheet, midterm tes) in your Grade Centre (Portal). Thiscode means that at the end of the term, Iwill not take that missed grade Into your course grade calculation.‘Tentative Lecture Coverage: Lecture | Chapter ‘Chapter Content ; 1__ | Statstes Stats Here 2 | Displaying and Deseriting Categorical Data : 3] Displaying and Summarizing Quantiative Data 4 | Uncerstanding and Comparing Distributions 3 5 __| The Standard Deviation ar « Rolo and the Nonna Model ; 6 | Scaterplot, Association, and Correlation 7__| Linear Regression : 7__| Linear Regression 8 | Regression Wisdom i | Sample Surveys 10 Experiments and Observational Stadies | From Randomness to Probability 7 12___| Protaiity Rus! 13__| Raniom Variables Midterm Test: Thursday, May 31st (Starts ai 65pm) 8 Note: No Tutorial before the test but a short lecture after the tet at 8:30pm 13___ Random Variables 5 14__| Sampling Distribution Models 15 [Confidence Intervals for Proportions (Course Project Due: Thursday, June Tih 10 16 | Testing Hypotheses About Proportions 17 | Mor: About Tess 18 | Inference About Means 19 | Comparing Means 20 | Paired Samples and Blocks 21 | Comparing Two ProportionsTutorial Information: Please note that tutorials art on Thursday, May 10" ‘There is a tutorial session before each lecture (except forthe first lecture and forthe day ofthe test). ‘There are sx tutorial sections in this course and all are scheduled from 6:10pm to 7:00pm, ‘Students are assigned tc tutrial section by their last names alphabetically ABLI4— Astronomy & Astrophysies Buildin Boris Garbuzov 'BEZIS — Bancroft Buildin ‘Bo Chen BE323 — Bancroft Bui ‘Armaan Farhad TMISS— Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories “Tadeu Ferreira LM157— Lash Miller Chemles! Laboratories ‘Hamed Zaker [ES B14 ~ Earth Sciences Centre “Finale Chea Accessibility Centre: ‘Students with diverse leaming styles and needs are welcome inthis course Ifyou have a Aisbilityhealth consideration that may require accommodations, please fel fee to approach me andlor the AccessAbility Services Offic as soon as possible at accesiblty.servicesautoronto.cs or Visit hip: accessibility utoronto.ca I will work with you and U of T Accessibility Services to ‘ensure you can achieve your earning goals inthis course. Enquiries are coatidentil ‘Academie Integrity Statement: ‘Academic integrity is essentiel tothe pursuit of learning and scholarship ina university, and to ensuring that a degree from te Unversity of Tort is song signal ofeach aden ndividual academic achievement. Asa esult the Unversity teats cases of cheating and plagiarism very seriously. The University of Toronto's Code of Behavicur on Academic Matter outlines the techaviours that constitute calemic dishonesty and the processes for addressing academic offences. Please refer to the following of T sites related : Code of Behaviour on Acadenic Mattes: ip/ivn.sovemingsoun ronnclplicieshehaveas im ‘Academic Integrity: hup/acsdemicingesrity orono.ca, Final Note: [appreciate your effort and w'llingness to work hard on statistical concepts that we will cover inthis course. Try fo stay on tasks ard attend all lectures, tutorials and visit office hours. Research has shown that motivation in achieve ie cetormined by extent in which one values the reward of swcceoding a ‘ask (elearning statistics wil beter enable me understand research in my field of study), and having growth mind st [believing hat by working hard on doing a task (eg, staistcal problems) abilities (ability to doing stasis) canbe developed). Thus, the best learning strategy inthis or any course Js to work regularly throughout the term. Also, keepin mind that learning quantitative methods isnot just about doing maths and calculations, however, its about understanding concepts. Make sure that you know why you are doing statistical calculation and what the results will ell you; when in doubt Seek help from me (Asal) or your Teaching Assistants wish you ll the best in this course,