706 STATISTICS SYLLABUS Fall 2005
John M. Grego MW 4-5:15 BA 204 Oce Hrs: MW 2:30-4:00 200F Leconte 777-5110 [e-mail]
Text Lecture Notes and Design and Analysis of Experiments, Sixth Edition by Douglas C. Montgomery Attendance Though attendance is rarely a problem with graduate students, I would like to note that my policy corresponds to the policy stated in the student handbook: If you miss more than 10% of your classes (> 3 classes), the teacher may choose an appropriate penalty. I will deduct 2% from your nal class average for each additional day that you miss after the third absence. Expect an e-mail message if you miss classI will make inquiries on the days you do not show up. Grading Grades will be weighted in the following way: Take-home Mid-term exam Homework/Classwork Project Take-home Final Exam Total 100 100 100 100 400 points points points points points
The project can be undertaken with a partner (or partners) and will consist of a proposal, rough draft, polished nal draft and oral presentation. I use the project to enhance (or reinforce) several skills you will need in your future (or current) career: written and oral communication, practical problem-solving and teamwork. The oral presentation should provide useful practice for your eventual masters thesis colloquium, as well as professional presentations. Though we will discuss analysis and model diagnostics from time to time, the emphasis in this class will be on recognizing, constructing and planning designs and deriving appropriate hypothesis tests from designs. We will have some in-class activities that will help in your development as a statistics professional. Since design recognition is an integral skill for this course and the linear fashion in which we learn designs does not help develop this skill, we will have a design of the week posted on the Web page. The design will typically be too dicult for you to solve in its entirety but will have some familiar elements; Id like you to be able to understand and articulate when complexities occur. Be prepared to discuss and hand in a write-up of your ideas in class. Your ideas can then be discussed with your classmates in a group discussion and the group consensus can then be shared with me. Grades will be based on participation level. portions For of the course in which the text is exemplary, we will have lectures that emphasize active learning. You will come to class having thoroughly read the days material and there will be a brief assessment of how well you understand the material. After group discussion of the material, any remaining questions will be cleared up by me. We will then close the period with either a group activity to reinforce the material or a lecture on advanced topics.
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Computers I will maintain a class web page that will be used to communicate homework assignments and solutions, post copies of course-related materials and otherwise update the syllabus. The URL for the class web page is http : //www.stat.sc.edu/ grego/courses/stat706. I will use the computer/LCD projection system extensively in class for demonstrations and introduction of computer software. We will also convene occasionally in one of the workstation labs for group work on the computer. The group work will include data analysis and stochastic simulations. We will be using two computer packages throughout the course. I tend to like to use the best available package for the job at hand and thus Minitab and SAS will be used appropriately; I may also use Splus or R for classroom presentations. Within this framework, I will always try to provide supplemental material on appropriate SAS code since familia...