STA442: Methods of Applied Statistics, Fall 2005
University of Toronto at Mississauga
http://www.utm.toronto.edu/~jbrunner/442f05
Lecture: Monday and Wednesday, 10:10 - 11:00 am, Room 144, North Building
Tutorials: Friday 10:10 - 11:00 am, Room 3101M, South Building. Tutorials start Friday Sept 23d.
Text: Class notes available online. Lectures and published class notes will overlap, but are not identical; you are responsible for both.
Topics: Basics of research design and significance testing, Elementary significance tests, A bit of unix, Introduction to SAS, Multiple regression, Categorical independent variables, Interactions, Factorial ANOVA, Random effects models, Multivariate analysis of variance, Repeated measures, Applied time series analysis.
Grading: There will be weekly quizzes given in tutorial every Friday (or maybe almost every Friday) starting Sept. 23d, for a total of 11 or 12 quizzes. Quizzes are worth 60% of the course mark. There will be a final examination worth 40% of the mark. Graduate students (those in STA1008) will have the option of substituting a project for the final exam.
Policy for missed work: If you miss a quiz the mark is zero, but your lowest quiz mark will be dropped.
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. 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.
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 or exam when they might be handed in. Do not give anyone a copy of your program file before a computer assignment is due. For more detail on plagiarism, the latest version of the student handout "How not to Plagiarize" is available at http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html.
A final note: You must use your own computer account, and only your own computer account to do the work for this course. If you use the account of another student -- or allow your account to be used by another student in this class -- your computer account will be cancelled, and so will your friend's. This will make it very difficult for you to pass this course (and possibly others). The reason for this seemingly insane rule is to prevent the following well-worn defense for having identical printouts: "I was using my friend's account and I accidentally printed the wrong file." No one ever believes this, and the students are always surprised, because they think it sounds good.
The Academic Regulations of the University are outlined in the Code of Behaviour on Academic matters, which can be found in the UTM Calendar or on the web at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/regcal/WEBGEN117.html .