STAT 3120 Statistical Methods I Lecture 1 Introduction

About this course –Objectives –Assignments, Project & Grading Policy –Course Syllabus & Schedule –Use of Internet Site –Usage of Software About You –Course Expectations STAT Introduction

Expectations – You should be comfortable with the following concepts: 1.Measurements of Central Tendency 2.Measurements of Dispersion (be honest – can you calculate a standard deviation?) 3.Z-scores 4.The Central Limit Theorem 5.Visualization of one variable Pie/bar/column/line charts Box Plots/Histograms 6.Visualization/organization of multiple variables Contingency Tables Stacked bar/column charts Scatterplots

STAT Introduction Expectations – I will be teaching in Base SAS. I expect that you can do the following executions using SAS with relatively little effort: Import a dataset Run Descriptive Statistics/Frequencies Create, Drop, Keep variables Categorize variables Export SAS Output to a Word Document using ODS Export SAS files to Excel