Microsoft Word - stat 480 syllabus_ME_

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Institution

King Abdulaziz University

College/ Department

Faculty of Science/ Department of Statistics

A. Course Identification and General Information

1. Course Information

Course title Selected Topics Code # Stat-480 Section # XBR Course time U 12-1 & R 12-2 Course place Lab 7/L03B 2. Instructor Information

Name Dr. Ibtesam Ali AL-saggaff e-mail [email protected] Location 7/ 3-103 Office hours U 9-10 & 12-1; T 9-11; R 9-10 & 2-3 Web site: http://ialsaggaf.kau.edu.sa/

3. Year and semester 2^nd Semester 1434/1435 4. Course prerequisite Sate 312

B.

Course objectives

Upon completing this course, student will know how to:

1- Use R facility.

2- Construct and manipulating data structure.

3- Generate and compute probability from different distribution.

4- Create advance graphic.

5- Write program code by using powerful programming environment of R.

6- Create scientific document using Microsoft Word.

C. Learning Resources

a) R language resources

1- Textbook: Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani (www.math.csi.cuny.edu/UsingR)

2- R package : Download from R web site http://www.r project.org/

3- References:

Statistics: An introduction using R (2005) by Crawley, M. J.

Introductory Statistics with R, 2^ed by (2004) Peter Dalgaard.

Data Analysis and Graphics Using R (2008) by John Maindonald.

More references are found under Books in R web site http://www.rproject. org/

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b) Scientific writing resources

1- Textbook: Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using Microsoft Word (2013) by Alexander V. and Murray

2- Microsoft Word program 3- References:

Microsoft Word 2013 Step by Step by Joan Lambert (2013) (e-book)

The structure of scientific reports (Unilearning.uow.edu.au/report/2b.html)

D. Course requirements and grading

1. Student assessment

Assignment 10%

First exam 20%

Second exam 20%

Project 10%

Final exam 40%

2.Expectation from student for each assignment All students are expected to:

 Attend class regularly, ask questions when clarification is needed and participate in the class activities.

 For each credit hour, the student is expected to spend at least 3 working hours doing homework, reading, and studying for the course. Therefore, the student is expected to spend at least 9 working hours weekly for preparing, studying, solving problems and doing lab assignments.

3.Attendance

There is no grade for attendance. Yet according to University rules, if you miss more than 25%

of the classes, you could be denied from taking the final exam and get an DN grade. It is your responsibility to make up for any missed materials or assignments.

E. Importing dates

First exam: Sunday 15/5/1435 – 16/3/2014 Second exam: Sunday 20/6/1435 – 20/4/2014 Final Exam: Thursday 19/7/1435 – 18/5/2014

F. Details course schedule

Week Date Lectur

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Topic

1 25-

29/3/1435 Registration Introduction to R

2 2-6/4/1435 1 & 2 Data modes, Type of data object, Names and assignment, Arithmetic Operators, Logical and Comparison, Operators.

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3 9-13/4/1435 3 & 4 Vector (Creating Vector, Vector Arithmetic, Vector Indexing)

Week Date Lectur

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Topic

4 16/4/1435 5 Some Arithmetic and Statistical R Function

20/4/1435 6 Matrix(Creating Matrix, Matrix Arithmetic, Matrix Indexing) 5 23/4/1435 7 Matrix Indexing + Array(Creating Array, Array Arithmetic, Array

Indexing)

27/4/1435 8 Data Frame

6 1/5/1435 9 Data Frame (more examples)

5/5/1435 10 List (Creating List, List Arithmetic, List Indexing and factor).

7 8/5/1435 11 Reading data + Some Build-in Function

12/5/1435 12 Programming Tools: If Statement, Loops, Conditional Execution

8 15/5/1435 13 First Exam

19/5/1435 14 Writing Function

20-28/5/1435 Midterm Holiday

9 29/5/1435

15 & 16 Statistical Distribution and functions in R 3/6/1435

10 6-10/6/1435 17 & 18 Graphs in R 11

13/6/1435 19 Introduction to the Scientific Writing 17/6/1435

20 The formal structure of scientific report (Title, Abstract, Introduction, Method)

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20/6/1435 21 Second Exam

24/6/1435 22 The formal structure of scientific report (Results, Discussion, Reference List, Appendices)

13 27/6/1435 23 Introduction to Microsoft Word.

2/7/1435 24 Create table, figure and equation 14

5/7/1435 25 Address equations, figure and table 9/7/1435

26 Create table of contain, list of figures and list of tables using Microsoft Word

15 12-

16/7/1435 27 & 28 Organize the references using endnote.

16 19/7/1435 29 Insert and manage the page number 23/7/1435 30 Final exam