STA429/1007: Statistics for the Life and Social Sciences
University of Toronto, Spring 2007
http://fisher.utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner/429s07
Lecture: Monday and Friday 12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., Room 1072, Sidney Smith Hall
Optional Tutorial: Friday 9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Room 1072, Sidney Smith Hall
Text: There is no textbook for this course at the bookstore. A free online text is available on the course home page. Material in this text overlaps with lectures.
Topics: Vocabulary of data analysis, Tests for statistical significance, Principles of research design, Introduction to unix, Introduction to SAS, Factorial ANOVA, Power analysis, Multivariate analysis of variance, Random effects models, Repeated measures, Introduction to R, Randomization tests.
Prerequisites: Any introductory statistics class, taught by any department.
Grading: For undergraduates (those in STA429), marks will be based upon equally weighted weekly quizzes. Graduate students (those in STA1007) will take the same quizzes, and also do a short data analysis project using real data from their fields of study. Please discuss the project with Jerry some time in early March.
Quizzes will be given at the beginning of class (12:10 pm) every Friday starting Jan. 19th. Note that there is no class Friday Feb. 23d (Reading Week), or Friday April 6th (Good Friday). This means that there will be 10 quizzes.
There will be an assignment for each quiz. The knowledge you need to do each quiz is a subset of the knowledge you need to do the corresponding assignment. Some (most) of the assignments include a computer part. You will bring printouts to the quiz and answer questions based on the printouts. Possibly, one of the quiz questions will be to hand in a printout. The non-computer parts of the assignments are just to prepare you for the quizzes; they will never be handed in.
If you miss a quiz for any reason, the mark is zero. However, there will be an optional makeup assignment, with a corresponding quiz on the last day of class, Monday April 9th. If you take the makeup quiz, the mark you get will be substituted for your two lowest quiz marks, your lowest quiz mark, or it will not be used at all -- whatever will help you most.
Plagiarism: The computer assignments are not group projects. It is fine to discuss the assignments and to learn from each other, but don't copy. Never look at anyone else's printouts (especially the input) or show anyone your printouts before the quiz when they might be handed in.