Software: The supported statistical software for this unit is R/RStudio and Minitab (versions 17 or 18 or Express). Students will be given guidance on how to use the software and be expected to conduct their analyses using R/RStudio and/or Minitab for the assignments. Students should also note that the final examination will involve data analysis that contains inline R code and output that students need to interpret to answer the exam questions.

Assignments: Due dates/times and submission details will be specified separately for each assignment. The assignments will be made available at least one week prior to when they are due. Some marks will be allocated for clarity of reasoning and presentation in each assignment.

In Class Tests: The tests (of 45 minutes duration) will be held during a lecture in the weeks indicated.  Specific dates are yet to be determined.  Students are permitted to take into the test room one (1) A4 page of personal summary of formulae or notes, hand-written or typed on one or both sides of the page. Students will be permitted to take this sheet with them at the completion of the tests. Some formulae will be provided (as per statistical tables available on iLearn); all necessary statistical tables will be provided.

Examination: The final examination will be of 3 hours duration with 10 minutes reading time. All material covered in the unit is examinable. Relevant statistical tables will be provided at the final examination. These will be the same as the ones made available during the teaching of the unit. For the final examination students will be permitted to take into the exam room a nonprogrammable calculator and two (2) A4 pages of formulae or notes, hand-written or typed on one or both sides of the page. Students will not be permitted to take these summary notes with them at the completion of the exam, and it is recommended that a photocopy or scan be made if a student has a desire to retain them.

Serious and unavoidable disruption to studies and special consideration: Late submissions, extensions to assessment due dates or alternative assessments are not possible unless a student experienced a serious and unavoidable disruption to their studies or had a documented illness. In this case, students are required to notify the Faculty on the ask.mq.edu.au system and apply for special consideration. This special consideration process needs to be approved before any alternative assessment is offered.

Specific late assessment submission/completion policies: In the case of a late submission for an assignment, if no special consideration has been granted, 10% of the earned mark will be deducted for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission - 20% penalty), up to a maximum of 50%. After 5 days, including weekends and public holidays, a mark of 0% will be awarded for the assignment.

NOTE: It is not the intention of this late penalty policy to cause a student to fail the unit when they have submitted their assignment no more than 5 days after the due date and they would have otherwise passed. In this case, if deductions for late assignments result in the final unit mark for a student being less than 50, when otherwise it would have been 50 or greater, the student's final mark will be exactly 50.

Special Consideration (final examination): If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in the supplementary exam period of 17th December to 21st December, 2018. By making a special consideration application for the final exam you are declaring yourself available for a resit during the supplementary examination period and will not be eligible for a second special consideration approval based on pre-existing commitments.  Please ensure you are familiar with the policy prior to submitting an application. You can check the supplementary exam information page on FSE101 in iLearn (bit.ly/FSESupp) for dates, and approved applicants will receive an individual notification one week prior to the exam with the exact date and time of their supplementary examination.

Lectures: STAT271 is delivered by lectures (3 per week) and tutorials (1 per week, commencing in week 2). All teaching material will be available on iLearn.

Tutorials: Students are to attend one tutorial per week, as per the class allocated at enrolment.  Tutorial Exercises will be available from iLearn at least five days prior to the tutorial. Students are expected to have attempted these prior to the tutorial. Solutions will be explained, with emphasis on any area students had trouble with. At the end of the week, these solutions will then be places on iLearn.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials Recommended: Mendenhall W, Wackerly D and Scheaffer R. “Mathematical Statistics with Applications”, Seventh Edition QA276 .M426 2008 Copies of this book are held in Special Reserve in the University Library. The Library also holds copies of the sixth and previous editions as well as the Student solutions manual. The following books are useful references for this unit: