Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Kj Byun
Contact via kj.byun@mq.edu.au
Other Staff
Peter Petocz
Contact via peter.petocz@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This is a general education unit and recommended for students in all fields of study. There is no assumed knowledge. It is particularly useful for those seeking a better understanding of statistics, using attractive and relevant ideas from areas of popular interest. The unit includes analysis of popular gambling games; the chance of success is calculated along with the testing of various strategies for winning. Statistics also plays an important role in the development of sporting strategies and certain national sports are examined. The use of statistics in the important field of medical science is covered. Ethical aspects of gambling, sport and medicine are discussed.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Attendance and Participation | 12% | Weekly (Wednesday) |
Labs | 8% | Weekly (Wednesday) |
Assignment 1 | 10% | 8th April (week 6) |
Assignment 2 | 10% | 3rd June (week 12) |
Final Examination | 60% | 16 June - 4 July 2014 |
Due: Weekly (Wednesday)
Weighting: 12%
To obtain full marks you need to attend the class on time and participate in every practical. Your mobile phone must be switched off and kept out of sight for the entire duration of your class.
Any late arrival, early departure, inappropriate usage of the computer, disturbing behaviour including the use of mobile phones will incurr deduction in marks.
Due: Weekly (Wednesday)
Weighting: 8%
Prior to your practical class, please prepare by revising the relevant lecture material and be sure to bring your lecture notes to your practical class. These lab works completed during the practical class must be submitted to your tutor by the end of your practical session for formal marking. There may be extra questions asked at the practical session in addition to the ones on the sheets.
In order to give early assessment feedback to the students by the end of week 4 (according to the university’s assessment policy) markedlab 2 exercises will be handed back during your practical session in week 4.
Some of the practical lab exercises are carried out using Excel, others using Minitab; you should install a copy of Minitab onto your own computer (download from the Student Portal).
Due: 8th April (week 6)
Weighting: 10%
Your assignment must be word-processed or it will not be marked. The presentation of the layout of your assignment will have some bearing on the mark you receive.
You should hand the assignments in at the Science Student Centre, E7A102, together with a cover sheet downloaded from:
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/new_and_current_students/undergrad/assignments_and_coversheets/
The absolute deadline is 2pm (the assignment box at the Science Student Centre will close at 2pm) Tuesday 8th of April in week 6.
No extension will be granted. Students who have not submitted the assignment prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the assignment, except for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved.
Marked assignments will be returned to students during a following practical, and the tutor will give detailed feedback on the assignment during that class.
These solutions will not be available elsewhere (will not be published on iLearn) and so it is in your best interest to attend and pay attention in the practical.
The 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 plagiarise 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 plagiarism in the unit outline and the relevant university website specified, very carefully. You should ensure, however, that you take careful note of any solutions provided in the practical session.
Due: 3rd June (week 12)
Weighting: 10%
Your assignment must be word-processed or it will not be marked. The presentation of the layout of your assignment will have some bearing on the mark you receive.
You should hand the assignments in at the Science Student Centre, E7A102, together with a cover sheet downloaded from:
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/new_and_current_students/undergrad/assignments_and_coversheets/
The absolute deadline is 2pm (the assignment box at the Science Student Centre will close at 2pm) Tuesday 3rd of June in week 12.
No extension will be granted. Students who have not submitted the assignment prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the assignment, except for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved.
Marked assignments will be returned to students during a following practical, and the tutor will give detailed feedback on the assignment during that class.
These solutions will not be available elsewhere (will not be published on iLearn) and so it is in your best interest to attend and pay attention in the practical.
The 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 plagiarise by other means. Please note thatif 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 plagiarism in the unit outline and the relevant university website specified, very carefully. You should ensure, however, that you take careful note of any solutions provided in the practical session.
Due: 16 June - 4 July 2014
Weighting: 60%
· A 3 hour final examination for this unit will be held during the University Examination period.
· The final examination will cover all topics dealt within the unit.
· In this examination you will be provided with relevant tables but no formulae will be given. However, you will be able to bring into the examination one piece of paper up to A4 size on which you may write anything you like on both sides. No other notes or books are allowed.
The University Examination period in First Half Year 2014 is from Monday 16th June – Friday 4th July.
You are expected to present yourself for examination at the time and place designated in the University Examination Timetable and this includes Saturdays. The timetable will be available in Draft form approximately eight weeks before the commencement of the examinations and in final form approximately four weeks before the commencement of the examinations.
http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/exam/
The only exception to not sitting an examination at the designated time is because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances you may wish to consider applying for Special Consideration. Information about unavoidable disruption and the special consideration process is available at
http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html
http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/procedure.html
Student Request to the Faculty of Science web page for Special Consideration Applications is
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/undergraduate_programs/current/admin_central/
If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the Special Consideration process the examination will be scheduled after the conclusion of the official examination period.
You are advised that it is Macquarie University policy not to set early examinations for individuals or groups of students. All students are expected to ensure that they are available until the end of the teaching semester that is the final day of the official examination period.
Classes
You will have one 3-hour lecture, and you will be enrolled in one 1-hour practical class:
7pm (E4B 206), 8pm (E4B 306) and 9pm (E4B 208).
(8pm and 9pm classes may be cancelled based on enrolment)
– all practicals start in week 2
The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at:
http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/
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 participationat the practical is compulsory and will be monitored. Students should attend the practical they enrolled into during the enrolment period. An attendance means at least 50 minutes of attending, participating and submitting practical lab exercises. (All mobile phones must be switched off and kept out of sight)
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 during the lab.
These solutions will not be available from anywhere else.
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 4th 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/
(you can get there conveniently from the Department website www.stat.mq.edu.au by selecting Undergraduate programs, then Statistics Units and then Stat175).
There is an iLearn page for the unit that contains notices, lecture notes, lecture exercises, sample labs and some solutions. 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 on a regular basis (at least twice a week).
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 practise 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.
· You will work individually and in groups with your fellow students. We also expect that you will make a good attempt at the lab exercise, assignments and final examination.
Changes from Previous Offering
Of all the practical lab exercises collected and marked, 4 were chosen randomly to count towards assessment mark of 8%, However, in this offering all the practical lab exercises will count towards 8% with each lab worth 1%.
Stat175 Gambling, Sport and Medicine – Semester 1, 2014
Date (Tuesday) |
Wk |
Title |
Stats topics |
Lab class (Wednesday) |
4 March
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1 |
Lotto & Lotteries
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Introduction
Counting techniques
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No lab first week |
11 March
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2 |
Keno
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Describing gambling games
Probability intervals
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1. Lotto and combinations (Excel) |
18 March |
3 |
Sport and binomial |
Binomial distribution
Olympic records |
2. Random variables and Keno (Excel) |
25 March
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4 |
Sports performance |
Normal distribution
Z-scores and comparisons
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3. World Cup Hockey (Excel)
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1 April
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5 |
Health Surveys |
Data types & summaries
Comparing means
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Lab time for assignment 1 preparation |
8 April
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6 |
Medical studies
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Types of studies
Odds ratios |
(Assignment 1 due Tue) 4. Pulse rates (Minitab)
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15 April |
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Mid-semester break
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22 April |
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Mid-semester break
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29 April |
7 |
Roulette
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House margin
Chances of being ahead
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5. Births and Diabetes (Minitab) |
6 May
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8 |
Sport and Poisson |
Poisson distribution
Chi-squared goodness of fit
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Assignment 1 solution discussion. |
13 May
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9 |
Testing Independence |
Cross tabulations
Chi-square tests
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6. Soccer Goals (Excel)
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20 May
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10 |
Sports betting
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Odds and prices
Bookmaking
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7. Surfing and Health (Minitab) |
27 May
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11 |
Medical testing
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Diagnostic testing
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Lab time for assignment 2 preparation |
3 June
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12 |
Forensic |
Forensic Statistics |
(Assignment 2 due Mon) 8. Sports betting (Excel) |
10 June |
13 |
Summary and revision |
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Assignment 2 solution discussion and revision. |
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.
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Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Assessment Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
Grading Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Grievance Management Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grievance_management/policy.html
Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
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