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Monday 9:30 & 12:30, Wednesday 9:30 & 12:30, Friday 11:30.
Please come at the start of the hour. Other times by appointment.
Don't hesitate to contact me by telephone, voice mail, or e-mail any time you need help. If you need to see me at any time and my office door is open, I will see you then if I can, or arrange a time to meet later.
Learn how to apply statistical methods and the principles of experimental design to problems of practical interest, with emphasis on engineering applications. Learn enough about the underlying theory that you can appreciate when a given method may or may not be applicable.
Learn how to use statistical software packages and spreadsheets for statistical analysis. Learn how to use the R environment for statistical analysis. Learn how to display data graphically and organize your results into reports.
Become skilled at the analysis of simple linear regression and one-factor and two-factor designs.
Lay the foundations for learning more advanced statistical methods after you complete this course.
Montgomery, D.C. & Runger, G.C. (2003) Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, Third Edition, Wiley.
This book will be useful as a statistics and experimental design handbook in later courses and after you graduate.
After studying the role of statistics in engineering (Chapter 1) and graphical methods for data exploration (Chapter 6), we will work fairly quickly through Chapters 2-5 and 7-10, touching only on selected topics and summarizing the important theoretical results on which statistical methods are based and illustrating the logic of statistical inference.
The most important topics will be covered in the final weeks: simple linear regression with a lack-of-fit test (Chapter 11) and the design and analysis of single-factor (Chapter 13) and some multi-factor (Chapter 14) experiments.
Copies of the lecture notes may be borrowed from the Instructor.
Check the course web site at http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/peter/s3n03/s3n03_0304 regularly for announcements, assignments, course notes, and answers to frequently-asked questions.
Students are expected to use computers in this course. Students should learn how to do statistical analysis in the R environment. Students should also become familiar with the statistical packages MINITAB and SPSS, and a spreadsheet such as Excel, Quattro Pro or AppleWorks.
It is each student's responsibility to keep up to date with the course by working ahead in the text. Each chapter of the text has worked examples and lots of problems. I will give you some exercises to work on but not hand in, and I will provide solutions to these exercises.
Three assignments will be handed in for grading.
Thursday, October 2, 2003
19:00 - 21:00
BSB-241, 242, 244, 245 Computer labs
Thursday, October 30, 2003
18:45 - 19:45
ABB-B163
Monday, November 24, 2003
18:45 - 19:45
ABB-B163
Aids permitted: Any calculators; one sheet of notes (8.5" x 11", one side only). In addition, please bring a photocopy of Tables I to V from the text to Test #3.
You must have a valid userid, password and laser printing account for the BSB computer lab when you write Test #1 on October 2. Tests MUST be submitted on paper; electronic submission is NOT permitted.
There will be a formal 3-hour examination scheduled by the Registrar in December.
Aids permitted: Any calculators; one sheet of notes (8.5" x 11", both sides); any mathematical or statistical tables. Photocopied tables from your textbook are recommended.
All assignments will be counted, weighted in proportion to total marks. All tests will be counted, weighted equally. The best of the following four calculations will be used:
(A) 100% Exam; (B) 80% Exam + 20% Assignments; (C) 80% Exam + 20% Tests; (D) 60% Exam + 20% Assignments + 20% Tests.For STATS 3N03 students, this will be their final mark.
STATS 3J04 students have an additional hour per week with Dr Dickson that will include three evaluations. Their final mark will be 85% the mark computed as shown above, plus 15% for Dr Dickson's evaluations.
I will review all "borderline" marks and possibly make further adjustments.
We remind you of the Statement on Academic Ethics found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office. Any student who infringes one of these resolutions will be treated according to published policy.