STAT 6166 Fall 2005 Statistical Methods in Research I Section 8489 Room 100 Griffin Floyd Tu 8 30 9 20 am and 9 35 10 25 am Th 9 35 10 25 am Instructor Professor Mary C Christman 406 McCarty Hall C 352 392 3724 mcxman ifas ufl edu Instructor Office Hours Period 4 i e 10 40 to 11 30 am on Tu and Th or by appointment Teaching Assistant Upasana Santra 401 McCarty Hall C Teaching Assistant Office Hours Course Objective usantra stat ufl edu TBA To train graduate students in life sciences in statistical concepts and methodology for planning experiments and analyzing data Texts and Course materials Required JMP In version 5 The Statistical Discovery Software for Windows Macintosh Linux Duxbury Thomson 79 95 ISBN 0 534 99747 3 Course Packet for STA 6166 available either as downloadable modules from the class website or as a hardcopy from Orange and Blue Textbooks Web Site http www stat ufl edu CourseINFO htm Grading Homework Reports Quizzes Final Exam Final Exam Date 20 25 25 30 3 5 pm on Monday 12 December Policies and Additional Information 1 Office Hours Office hours are listed above Help outside these times are by appointment only Call or email to schedule an appointment 2 Occasionally additional materials or other notes interesting websites pointers to recent interesting articles etc will be placed on the class web site Check often to ensure you are not missing anything important 3 The class Email account will be used occasionally to answer questions or possibly to send out additional information to everyone Be sure your campus email address is current in the system because we will be using the listserv created by ISIS 4 There will be 1 exam a cumulative final We will not be available to answer questions on exam materials for the 24 hrs before an exam The final exam will be open notes but closed mouth You may NOT share information or calculators with other students during the exam You may not use a computer unless explicitly allowed I encourage you to ask the proctors any questions regarding clarification or interpretation of exam questions but please do not ask us about your answer 5 Very short quizzes 10 15 min will be given at the start of class so do not be late on random dates which will NOT always be announced ahead of time During the semester there will be a total of 15 quizzes of which the 10 best grades will count No make up quizzes will be provided Also please note that these are timed tests and you will be allowed only the allotted time to complete the work Please plan accordingly 6 Answers to the quizzes and homework will be provided as quickly as possible after the event The homework answers will be posted to the website We will try to post answers quickly 7 Missed Exams If you must miss an exam very few excuses are permitted let me know as soon as possible before the scheduled exam It is unlikely a make up exam will be offered unless the student was ill or had an acceptable conflicting event Acceptable conflicting events are field work for research or presentations at meetings No other conflicts will be accepted Please do not ask for a change in date due to reunions weddings parties etc The request will definitely NOT be granted 8 Late homework will not be accepted and will be recorded as a 0 grade If you are going to miss a class or have a scheduling conflict return the assignment before the due date It is the responsibility of the student to work all of the assigned homework problems independently which means by yourself on your own The experience gained from doing these problems is invaluable and necessary for the understanding of the material we shall be covering Please note that obtaining help from fellow students or others on a homework assignment is considered cheating by the University and will not be allowed unless explicitly stated 9 Please do not ask us to alter your grade on an exam or homework unless we made a calculation mistake added the total wrong or took points off a correct answer etc If you think this is what happened then you should provide the exam and a written explanation of the reason you believe we made a mistake to me within a day of the return of the exam No verbal explanations will be accepted 10 We do not give extra credit so please do not ask Plan ahead and study so that it does not become an issue 11 A tentative schedule and reading list are provided It is recommended that you do the reading ahead you will get much more out of the lectures if you do Please plan on bringing your course packet and if possible a laptop to every class University Policies Academic Dishonesty All members of the University Community share the responsibility to challenge and make known acts of apparent academic dishonesty Acts of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated and will be referred to the Student Honor Council Information regarding University policies about academic dishonesty and the University s honor code may be found at http www dso ufl edu judicial procedures academicguide html Academic accommodations If you have a documented disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations with me please contact me as soon as possible Information on Disability Resources can be found at http www dso ufl edu drp services Recommendations for Alternative Resources Any good introductory text in Applied Statistics should be useful Examples include Ott and Longnecker 2001 An Introduction To Statistical Methods And Analysis Fifth Edition Duxbury Thomson Devore and Peck 2005 Statistics The Exploration And Analysis Of Data Fifth Edition Duxbury Thomson Sokal and Rohlf 1987 Introduction To Biostatistics Second Edition W H Freeman and Co Glover and Mitchell 2002 An Introduction To Biostatistics McGraw Hill Additional resources are the following web sites http www uark edu misc andym gf5 gf5 frame htm contains tutorials on using JMP http www jmp com contains information on ordering JMP http www duxbury com statistics d templates student resources 0534391869 bkSite jmp jmp in dex html contains tutorials on using JMP http web utk edu leon 201Tutorials default html contains tutorials on using JMP http ifasstat ufl edu statisticalmethods contains course materials for STA 6166 distance learning section These are Dr Ken Portier s notes for his online class so if you are interested in seeing a different professor s notes try here Tentative Schedule Topic Course Packet Section Number 1 Introduction a Scientific Method b Data And The Process Of Data Analysis 2 Sampling a