Students are required to attend a 1-hour tutorial per week. A mark of from 0 (never attended or very rarely attended tutorials) to 5 (attending and actively participating all tutorials) is also awarded according to your attendance and participation in tutorials. To pass the unit, you need to attend and participate at least eight (8) tutorials.

Each week a set of tutorial exercises will be made available for you to work on and then discussed in the tutorial of the following week.

Your solutions to the tutorial must be handed in or shown (as instructed) to the tutor at each tutorial session, and a mark of 0 or 1 or 2 will be awarded depending on whether a reasonable attempt has been made. To pass the unit, you need to complete at least eight (8) tutorial Exercises.

Three assignments are set for students to apply the knowledge gained from lectures, tutorials and their own reading, with and/or without using the statistical software, SAS. Questions and tasks have been designed to assess a student's level in relation to the unit learning outcomes. Students will be further evaluated in relation to the unit learning outcomes in the final examination.

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The three assignments will be made available on the unit iLearn. Details about due date and submission for each assignment will be included in the assignment. Students must submit all assignments on-time and perform satisfactorily (ie, achieve pass standard) in order to pass this unit. Students who are unable to submit any assignment on time, because of documented illness or other disruption, must report the circumstances in writing to the lecturer in charge and may consider applying for Special Consideration in relation to Disruption of Studies. A web link to Disruption to Studies policy is given under Policies and Procedures within this unit guide. Students who have not submitted an assignment prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the assignment, except for cases in which an application for Disruption of Studies is made and approved.

Marked assignments will be handed back to the student within two to three weeks after the due date.

Students must keep a soft or hard copy of any assignments or tutorials that thye submit. In the event of their assignments or tutorials being misplaced, a replacement will be requested.

The final examination is used to assess students’ understanding of the material presented in the unit.

The final examination will be a three hour written exam (plus ten minutes reading time) and will be held during the examination period which runs from 17 November to 5 December, 2014. It will examine any materials covered in the unit. A page of formulae and relevant statistical tables will be attached to the final examination.  Students will be permitted to take one A4 sheet, handwritten on both sides, into the final examination. The right to bring an A4 sheet into the examination may be forfeited in any supplementary examination, on the grounds that extra preparation time will have been available to the candidate. Calculators (non text returnable) should be brought into the exam. No other electronic devices (e.g. mobile phones, mp3 players) are allowed during the exam.

The University Examination 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 at:        http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/exam

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 session, which is the final day of the official examination period. 

Attendance at the examination is compulsory. The only exception to not sitting an examination at the designated time is because of documented illness or other unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances you may consider applying for Special Consideration in relation to Disruption of Studies. A web link to Disruption to Studies policy is given under Policies and Procedures within this unit guide.

Special Consideration request relating Disruption will only be granted to students whose performance in all parts of the coursework is satisfactory. In particular, you must have obtained at least 20 out of the total 40 marks in the coursework (tutorials and assignments), attended at least eight tutorial classes and completed at least eight tutorial exercises.

If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the Special Consideration request, the examination will be scheduled after the conclusion of the official examination period.

Note carefully:

Your final grade in STAT395 will be based on your work during the semester and in the final examination as specified in the Assessment Tasks. You need to achieve the same standards in the assessment tasks during the semester and the final examination to be awarded a particular grade as set out in the Grading Policy. Your final result will include one of these grades plus a standard numerical grade (SNG).