STAT 300. Intermediate Statistics for Applications
(MWF 12noon -- 1:00 pm, ESB 1012, 2017)

Lab information, WebWork assignments, and some other formation are posted on UBC Connect.

Instructors: Lang Wu, Department of Statistics, UBC. Office:  ESB 3126.
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:30pm - 3:30pm, ESB 3126.

Lab/TA: L1A (Tue 8:30am): Xixi (xixi.hu@stat.ubc.ca), L1B (Wed, 9am): Madison (madifriesen@live.com), L1C (Thu, 8:30am): Sonja (sonja.surjanovic@stat.ubc.ca), L1D (Fri, 2pm): Derek (ubc.derekouyang0810@gmail.com).

TA Office hours (ESB 1043): Monday 3pm-4pm: Madison, Tuesday 9:30am-10:30am: Xixi, Wednesday 11am-12noon: Sonja, Friday 1pm-2pm, Derek.

Open lab hours (ESB 1046): Monday 1pm - 5 pm, Tuesday 9am - 12pm, Thursday 12noon - 4pm.

Homework: (i) two written assignments, and (ii) regular online WebWork (posted on Connect).

Exams: There will be a midterm exam and a final exam. Schedule of the midterm exam is Friday, October 27, 2017 (in class). No makeup exams. See Exam section for more details.

Assessment: labs: 10% , clicker: 5%, assignments: 15%, WeBWork: 10%, midterms: 20%, final exam: 40% (The weights may be adjusted if necessary. The lowest webwork mark and lowest lab mark will be droppped. )

References:

• Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002): The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd edition). Brookes/Cole.
• Moore, D.S. and McCabe, G.P. (2012): An Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. (7th edition). Freeman.
• Walpole, R.E, Myers, R.M., Myers, S.L. and Ye, K. (2007): Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. Pearson/Prentice Hall.
• Whitlock, M. and Schluter, D. (2008): The Analysis of Biological Data. Roberts and Company.
• Ekstrom, C. T. (2012): The R Primer. Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Hay-Jahans, C. (2012): An R Companion to Linear Statistical Models. Chap- man and Hall/CRC
• Hothorn, T. and Everitt, B.S. (2010): A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. (2nd edition) Chapman and Hall/CRC