Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor and Lecturer
Tania Prvan
Contact via tania.prvan@mq.edu.au
12 Wally Walk Level 6 Room 629
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MAppStat or MSc or GradCertAppStat or GradDipAppStat or MLabQAMgt or PGCertLabQAMgt or GradDipLabQAMgt or GradCertLabQAMgt or MBiotech or GradDipBiotech or MBioBus or MActPrac or MDataSc
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
STAT723
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Unit description |
Unit description
We present the principles of effective graphical presentation, set them in a historical context and apply them to a variety of statistical data sets. Emphasis is given to use of modern multivariate graphical techniques such as trellis/lattice graphs and mosaic plots to show a variety of displays of data and model fits, and to display model consistency with data. To present graphics, we introduce and use R, as well as other standard packages. Participants choose an area for further investigation related to their interests. This unit is appropriate for study at any stage of the student's: as an introduction early in the program, or as an overview towards the end of the program.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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 day that an assignment is late, up to a maximum of 50%. After 5 days, counted including weekends and public holidays, a mark of 0% will be awarded. 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.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Assessment 1 | 5% | No | 2pm 12 March 2018 |
Assessment 2 | 5% | No | 2pm 19 March 2018 |
Assessment 3 | 5% | No | 2pm 26 March 2018 |
Assessment 4 | 5% | No | 2pm 2 April 2018 |
Assessment 5 | 5% | No | 2pm 9 April 2018 |
Assignment 1 | 25% | No | 2pm 30 April 2018 |
Assignment 2 | 25% | No | 2pm 28 May 2018 |
Final Examination | 25% | No | Exam Period |
Due: 2pm 12 March 2018
Weighting: 5%
A PowerPoint presentation with voice over of about 5 minutes duration to be submitted online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. There should be four slides addressing questions asked at the end of the Week 1 lecture handout. Each slide must have your name and Student ID on it. Presentations with overcrowded slides will be penalised. Animations will be penalised.
There is no group work.
Same lateness penalty as that for an assignment applies. Please refer to General Assessment Information.
Due: 2pm 19 March 2018
Weighting: 5%
A PowerPoint presentation with voice over of about 5 minutes duration to be submitted online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. There should be four slides addressing questions asked at the end of the Week 2 lecture handout. Each slide must have your name and Student ID on it. Presentations with overcrowded slides will be penalised. Animations will be penalised.
There is no group work.
Same lateness penalty as that for an assignment applies. Please refer to General Assessment Information.
Due: 2pm 26 March 2018
Weighting: 5%
A PowerPoint presentation with voice over of about 5 minutes duration to be submitted online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. There should be four slides addressing questions asked at the end of the Week 3 lecture handout. Each slide must have your name and Student ID on it. Presentations with overcrowded slides will be penalised. Animations will be penalised.
There is no group work.
Same lateness penalty as that for an assignment applies. Please refer to General Assessment Information.
Due: 2pm 2 April 2018
Weighting: 5%
A PowerPoint presentation with voice over of about 5 minutes duration to be submitted online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. There should be four slides addressing questions asked at the end of the Week 4 lecture handout. Each slide must have your name and Student ID on it. Presentations with overcrowded slides will be penalised. Animations will be penalised.
There is no group work.
Same lateness penalty as that for an assignment applies. Please refer to General Assessment Information.
Due: 2pm 9 April 2018
Weighting: 5%
A PowerPoint presentation with voice over of about 5 minutes duration to be submitted online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. There should be four slides addressing questions asked at the end of the Week 5 lecture handout. Each slide must have your name and Student ID on it. Presentations with overcrowded slides will be penalised. Animations will be penalised.
There is no group work.
Same lateness penalty as that for an assignment applies. Please refer to General Assessment Information.
Due: 2pm 30 April 2018
Weighting: 25%
Five statistical graphics should be collected during the first half of the semester from published work. You must not draw your own graphics or get someone else to do so for you. Credit will be given for interesting, carefully chosen graphics which show evidence of searching widely. The graphics must be included in your submission along with the source of each graphic (title of the article, authors, source including title, page numbers etc.) and each graphic must be discussed. This discussion may include the reason why you chose this graphic, it must include strengths and weaknesses of each graphic, and may include redrawn improved versions of the graphic.
There is no group work.
The report must be word processed and must be submitted in pdf format online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. It should be at most 5 pages long (1500 word count) including the graphics. Note that a word document can be saved as pdf.
Please refer to General Assessment Information for lateness penalty.
Due: 2pm 28 May 2018
Weighting: 25%
A data set with some documentation will be available from iLearn given at the end of Week 10. This data set must be analysed and a concise, well-organised report on your analysis must be prepared. The analysis must be appropriate and be substantially graphical. Appropriate statistical graphics explored or mentioned in the lectures should be used. The statistical package R must be used.
There is no group work.
The report must be word processed and must be submitted in pdf format online via iLearn by 2pm on the due date. It should be at most 4 pages long (1500 word count) including the graphics. Note that a word document can be saved as pdf.
Please refer to General Assessment Information for lateness penalty.
Due: Exam Period
Weighting: 25%
The final examination will be held during the Examination period. The final exam is 2 hours long (with an additional 10 minutes reading time).
The final examination covers all course material. Students may take into the final examination ONE A4 page of notes handwritten (not typed) on BOTH sides. Rulers will be needed.
You are expected to present yourself for the examination at the time an place designated in the University Examination Timetable. The timetable will be available in draft form approximately eight weeks before the commencement of examinations.
If unable to sit the Examination due to documented illness or unavoidable disruption you may wish to consider applying for a Special Consideration.
Students need to apply for Special Consideration online at https://ask.mq.edu.au
If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in the interval between the regular exam period and the start of the next session. 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.
There are 2 hours of lectures and 1 tutorial each week in this unit. Lectures commence in Week 1 and tutorials commence in Week 2. Lecture material will be put up on iLearn.
There is no specified textbook for this unit and a variety of readings will be available. The following books are good general references that may be used during the semester.
In this unit we rely less on formal lectures and more on individual reading, preparation and learning to use the computer, and on collaborative investigation and discussion of problems. There may be some 'guest lectures' which will be presented live and be available afterwards on iLearn. There will be weekly readings.
Technologies used and required
Lecture material will be placed on iLearn. R (https://www.r-project.org/) and Mondrian (http://www.theusrus.de/Mondrian/) will be used in some of the lectures. Students will need to use R and Mondrian. All assessments except for the final examination must be word processed and converted to pdf files for online submission in iLearn. A Word document can be saved as pdf.
This list is tentative and is subject to change.
Week | Topic |
1 | Introduction to statistical graphics |
2 | Principles of statistical graphics |
3 | Getting familiar with R |
4 | More R |
5 | Mosaic Plots |
6 | Parallel Coordinate Plots |
7 | Guest Lecture: Topic to be announced |
8 | Linear Models I |
9 | Linear Models II |
10 | Time and time-oriented data |
11 | Visual Data Mining |
12 | High dimensional graphics |
13 | Review |
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The Portfolio of five items has been replaced by five assessments each requiring submission of four PowerPoint slides with voice over of about 5 minutes duration online via iLearn. There are no longer any live presentations by students in the lecture. The project and large presentation has been replaced by two word processed assignments to be submitted as pdfs online via iLearn and the final examination is no longer a take home exam but is a two hour examination (plus 10 minutes reading time) held during the Examination period on campus.
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25/01/2018 | The following information was added. 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 day that an assignment is late, up to a maximum of 50%. After 5 days, counted including weekends and public holidays, a mark of 0% will be awarded. 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. If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in the interval between the regular exam period and the start of the next session. 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. |