Elementary Statistics: Instructor: Mary Parker
Spring 2018
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What skills do you need to succeed in this course in math, technical reading, and thinking about the world? Please read this before the class begins: https://sites.google.com/site/mpstat22/
How to work in this course: View Download
First-day handout: See the Spring 2018 handout: View Download (Jan 15: This is the final version. Revised office hours and a few changes under "Tests." Print it and put it in your notebook.)
Course Syllabus: Spring 2018
Start learning statistics: Videos of the material covered in the first two weeks are available in Blackboard This will be available about a week before the class begins. At that time, you can sign up for your free 14-day trial of WileyPlus and start working on the course. Follow the instructions in this document: View Download
Course materials:
Title and authors of our course materials: Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, by Lock, Lock, Lock-Morgan, Lock, and Lock. 2nd ed. 2017 Wiley Publishing Company.
Our software is StatKey, It is a free statistics software package, prepared by our text's authors. Many videos and other information are available from that website.
The book is not sold separately from the online materials at WileyPlus. The online materials are required in our course because they contain MANY things to help you study, including videos of every example in the text and overview videos as well.
The least expensive way to purchase it is to sign up for a free two-week trial of the online book and then, after you get started in it, decide whether you want to purchase a copy of the physical book for an additional $30 in addition to the cost ($80) of continuing in the online materials.
It is also possible to buy. for about $137, a package with a copy of the physical book and a code for access to WileyPlus from the ACC bookstore. Note that, as soon as you open that package, it is not returnable.