Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor/Lecturer
Hassan Doosti
Contact via Contact via Email
12WW 534
please refer to iLearn
Unit Convenor/Lecturer
Ayse Bilgin
Contact via via email
12 WW 635
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
20cp in STAT units at 3000 level including (STAT375 or STAT3175 or STAT379 or STAT3579)
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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 unit integrates core concepts in statistics in the practical context of solving real research problems by the application of technical ideas and methods. In particular, the unit aims to give students exposure to the general and discipline-specific issues that arise in statistical work, and to provide an experiential background in consulting. Students will develop the ability to appreciate the nature of statistical problems and discuss the problem-solving cycle: listen to a client's statement of a problem and ask appropriate questions for clarification; recognise appropriate technical techniques for use in a variety of problems, and apply these techniques competently; recognise situations in which familiar techniques do not apply and search the literature for appropriate alternative techniques; write reports at an appropriate technical level for a client or a colleague; give an oral summary of a statistical investigation at a level appropriate for the audience; and discuss the ethical aspects and implications of professional data work. |
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:
The projects that you will be working on are real problems belong to real clients. You need to keep everything confidential.
Assessment submissions All assessments should be submitted electronically on iLearn, by the given due date and time.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Participation | 10% | No | Weekly |
Self Reflection | 10% | No | W2 & W13 |
Project Plan | 10% | No | W4 |
Project Presentation | 20% | No | W11, W12 & W13 |
Project Report | 50% | No | W13 |
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 6 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 10%
Contribution to weekly activities such as tutorial, client meetings, group meetings and discussions.
Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: W2 & W13
Weighting: 10%
Self Reflection on Previous Learning, Group Process, technical aspects of the group project and statistical consulting experience.
Assessment Type 1: Plan
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: W4
Weighting: 10%
The project plan should include background to the project; aim(s) of the project; some information about the data set (or how it is going to be collected); statistical methods that might be used to analyse the data; how the expected findings of this report would be useful to the project owner (one or two sentences).
Assessment Type 1: Presentation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: W11, W12 & W13
Weighting: 20%
All members of a group will present a 5-7 minutes talk on a particular aspect of the project.
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: W13
Weighting: 50%
Statistical report for client project.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Lectures: There are 13 x 2hr lectures each week.
SGTA’s: There are 12x 2hr SGTA classes each week.
Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials
Note that some of the following will be provided to students during semester.
Boen J & Zahn D, The Human Side of Statistical Consulting, Lifetime Learning Pubs, Belmont CA, 1982. (Not available in library)
Boomer K, Rogness N & Jersky B, Statistical consulting courses for undergraduates: fortune or folly, JSE, 15(3), 2007. (Electronic version QA276.18)
Chatfield C, Problem Solving: A Statistician's Guide, 2nd ed., Chapman and Hall, London, 1995. (QA276.12 .C457 1995)
Derr J, Statistical Consulting: A Guide to Effective Communication, Duxbury 2000. (HA29 .D386/2000)
Finch S & Gordon I, Lessons we have learned from post-graduate students, ICOTS8, 2010.
Hand DJ and Everitt BS (eds.), The Statistical Consultant in Action, Cambridge Uni Press, 1987. (Sections 1, 2 and 4 are available in Google.books)
Mackisack M & Petocz P, Projects for advanced undergraduates, ICOTS6, 2002.
McGinn M, Learning to use statistics in research: a case study of learning in a university-based statistical consulting centre, SERJ, 2010.
Peter Petocz, Anna Reid (2010) On Becoming a Statistician - A Qualitative View. International Statistical Review. 78(2): 271-286.
Rothman E, Teaching students and staff consultancy skills, ICOTS7, 2006.
Smith H & Walker J, Experiences with research teams comprised of graduate students, faculty researchers and a statistical consulting team, ICOTS8, 2010.
Wild C & Pfannkuch M, Statistical thinking in empirical enquiry, International Statistical Review, 67(3), 1-12.
ICOTS, SERJ and International Stat Review papers are available at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php
International Statistical Institute http://www.isi-web.org/
The Statistical Society of Australia http://www.statsoc.org.au/
American Statistical Association http://www.amstat.org/
Statistical Society of Canada http://www.ssc.ca/en/whats-new
EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies) website: https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1/home
Australian Society for Operations Research http://www.asor.org.au/
INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) website: https://www.informs.org/
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