Requirements to Pass this Unit To pass this unit you must:

•  Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50/60 in each Module Basic Test.

HURDLE ASSESSMENTS 

• Assessment 1: Module Tests (75%) Low-stake quizzes serve as a formative assessment, providing a regular opportunity to demonstrate understanding and receive feedback for progress. This unit has FIVE module quiz tests, and you must show your mastery in acquiring statistical knowledge by completing and obtaining the required passing mark for each quiz by its due date. These are hurdle assessments meaning that failure to meet this requirement may result in a fail grade for the unit. Please contact stat1170.admin@mq.edu.au if you fail to meet the hurdle requirement.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty:

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of 0 will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.  For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted. 

1. Statistical Report - YES

• Statistical Report submission will be online through the iLearn page.
• For Statistical Report, late submissions will be accepted and standard Late Penalty applies.
• For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration. 

In this unit, no late submissions will be accepted for  Module Tests - unless permission is granted by contacting STAT1170.admind@mq.edu.au or an approval from a Special Consideration Application

FINAL EXAM POLICY: There is no final exam for this unit.

Census dates

Please check https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates for the last day to withdraw from this unit without financial penalty, and the last date to withdraw from this unit without academic penalty.

Classes

STAT6170 will be delivered remotely, and no classes are scheduled.

Students will be given the opportunity to watch STAT1170-INT lecture recordings on Echo360.

​Please note: there are no small group teaching activities (SGTA) or practical classes for STAT6170, but students are expected to work through the material used in STAT1170 classes.

Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email or through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to your lecturers [or stat1170.admin@mq.edu.au] from your university email address.

COVID Information

For the latest information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please refer to the Coronavirus infection page on the Macquarie website: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/coronavirus-faqs.

Remember to check this page regularly in case the information and requirements change during semester. If there are any changes to this unit in relation to COVID, these will be communicated via iLearn.

Software

The technical software used in this unit is Excel, R and RStudio. Students will be given guidance on how to use these products, and be expected to complete the unit's assessments with the indicated software.

Help with STAT6170-Related Administrative Matters

For help with STAT6170-related administrative matters, students should email the convenor.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

• A calculator with statistics mode may be useful during lectures.
• Excel can be downloaded from the student portal. This can be accessed from the web page for Student IT services: http://students.mq.edu.au/it_services/. (Note that, as a Macquarie student, you have free access to Excel.)
• R and RStudio are freely available to everyone. Access and installation instructions may be found at https://www.r-project.org/ for R, and at https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ for RStudio.

Recommended textbook used in this unit:

• Modern Statistics: An introduction, Don McNeil and Jenny Middledorp (ISBN 9781486007011). This can be purchased in hard copy from, for example, the Coop Bookshop or in e-format (ISBN 9781486022120, access details to be provided in class).

Other recommended reading:

• Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Moore, D.S. and McCabe, G. P (W.H. Freeman)
• Statistics without Tears by Rowntree (Penguin)
• Mind on Statistics by Utts & Heckard (Thomson, 2004)
• Elementary Statistics by Johnson & Kuby (Thomson, 2007)
• Statistics: The Art & Science of Learning from Data by Agresti & Franklin (Prentice Hall, 2007)
• The Statistical Sleuth by Ramsey and Schafer (Duxbury, 2002)

Technology Used and Required

iLearn, (which is a version of Moodle) is used for delivery of STAT6170 course material and can be accessed at: http://ilearn.mq.edu.au.

Unit Schedule

We value student feedback to be able to continually improve the way we offer our units. As such we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link in the iLearn page. Student feedback from the previous offering of this unit was very positive overall, with students pleased with the clarity around assessment requirements and the level of support from teaching staff. As such, no change to the delivery of the unit is planned, however, we will continue to strive to improve the level of support and the level of student engagement