There is no "group work" assessment in this unit. All work is to be the student's own.

The lab exercises and assignments are meant to be a learning device as well as being an assessment task and a reasonable attempt at each question is expected.  It is not worthwhile to copy the solutions from somebody else or plagiarize by other means.

Please note that if you provide your work to someone else and it is copied then you are also considered to be just as guilty of plagiarism as the other party.

Each semester, many students receive a mark of 0 for their Assignment submission, due to plagiarism. You may discuss solution approaches with your fellow students, but you must not share any files, wording or text. Do the work alone, starting with a new empty document.

Please read the section on Academic Honesty Policy in the relevant university website specified under Policies and Procedures section of this unit guide, very carefully.

No extensions will be granted for assignments, except for cases where a student has a serious and unavoidable disruption to studies. In this case, an application for Disruption of Studies is required from the student on the ask.mq.edu.au system and needs to be approved by the Lecturer-In-Charge.

Classes

You will have one 3-hour lecture, and you will be enrolled in one 1-hour practical class:

• Lectures: Wednesday 11am to 2pm C5C T1 (these also contain a tutorial component)
• Practicals: Wednesday 3pm (E4B 306), 4pm (E4B 306), Thursday 12pm (E4B 206) and Thursday 1pm (E4B 206) -  based on student numbers another class (Thursday 2pm (E4B 206) may be scheduled.

           – all practicals start in week 2

The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at:

http://students.mq.edu.au/student_admin/timetables

We recommend that you attend all the lectures and all the practicals.

Attendance at the lectures is optional but may be monitored to aid in deciding the grades of those students who are close to a grade borderline or who have requested special consideration. 

Attendance and participation at the practical is compulsory and will be monitored. Students should attend the practical they enrolled into during the enrolment period. An attendance means around 50 minutes of attending, participating and submitting practical lab exercises. We recommend your mobile phone should be kept out of sight for the duration of the practical. Usually, students who divide their attention between their mobile phone and lab exercises run out of time to complete the work satisfactorily.

The standard of some of these exercises covered in practicals is similar to that required in the examinations. Also during practicals in which the marked assignments are handed back to the students, the full solutions will be covered. 

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

We will be using the e-textbook, Kj Byun and Peter Petocz (2013). Taking Your Chances in Gambling, Sport and Medicine for lectures and also notes for practical classes.  Please see

http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/taking-your-chances-in-gambling-sport-and-medicine/13942040

Some other useful background references are:

·         D. Rowntree (1981). Statistics without Tears. Penguin [QA276.R66]

·         M. Bland (2000). An Introduction to Medical Statistics. Oxford University Press [RA409.B55/2000]

·         R. Peck et al. (eds.) (2006). Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown 4^th Edition. Duxbury Press [QA276.16.S843 2006]

Technology Used and Required

The Department of Statistics web page for this unit can be found at:  www.stat.mq.edu.au/undergraduate_programs/stat_units/stat_units100/stat175/

There is an iLearn page for the unit that contains notices, lecture notes, lecture exercises and sample labs. We will be using iLearn throughout the course.

You can access this from https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/ . You will be asked for your Macquarie OneID username and password. If you have any problems, try one of the Help buttons.

If iLearn is down, you can send ordinary e-mail.

However, you should at all times use your Macquarie University student e-mail account when contacting us. E-mails from hotmail, yahoo and similar accounts are often stopped by our spam filter, so we may not get to read them. Furthermore, you should check and read your Macquarie University student e-mail and any announcements on iLearn on a regular basis (at least twice a week and certainly on the day of the lecture and practical).

Teaching and Learning Strategy

Our role:

·         In the 3-hour “lecture” class, we will present new material in the form of lectures, and include a tutorial component where you can practice the techniques and ask questions.

·         In the practical classes, we will help you work practically, solving problems and analysing data using Microsoft Excel and Minitab.

Your role:

·         We expect that you will prepare by printing and reading lecture notes in advance, attending lectures, attending practical sessions and participating in the various learning activities.

·         We also expect that you will make a good attempt at the lab exercise, assignments and final examination.

Stat175 Gambling, Sport and Medicine – Semester 2, 2016

Please note in practicals from week 2 through to week 13, all practical lab exercises will be collected at the end of your practical session.

Some modifications have been made to the assessment structure to comply with the new Assessment Policy.