About this Course
Welcome to the course notes for STAT 200: Elementary Statistics. These notes are designed and developed by Penn State's Department of Statistics and offered as open educational resources. These notes are free to use under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Course Overview Section
As a time expectation, most students require 8-16 hours per week to be successful in the course. This is comparable to the resident version of the course where students meet with an instructor 4 hours per week in a classroom plus time outside of class completing assignments and preparing for exams. We find that the most successful students in this course are those who do not wait until the last minute to complete assignments and those who post questions on the discussion boards.
Students are encouraged to make a weekly schedule for themselves. Below is an example from a student whose assignments are all due Tuesday night:
Weekly Schedule Example
| Weekday | Activity |
|---|---|
| Wednesday | Work through the assigned readings Start the WileyPLUS assignment |
| Thursday | Continue to work through the readings and the WileyPLUS assignment |
| Friday | Finish the WileyPLUS assignment |
| Saturday | Relax Catch up / get ahead |
| Sunday | Start the lab assignment |
| Monday | Finish the lab assignment Take the quiz |
| Tuesday | Confirm that all assignments have been submitted Relax |
This course uses the textbook Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data by Lock, Frazier Lock, Lock Morgan, Lock, & Lock.
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