Instructor: W. Robert Stephenson, 1407 Wilson Hall or 1127 Human Nutritional Science Building
Mailing
Address: Department of Statistics, 327 Snedecor Hall, Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1210 Phone: (515) 294-7805
fax: (515) 294-5040 or (515) 294-4040
email: wrstephe@iastate.edu
homepage: www.public.iastate.edu/~wrstephe
Office Hours: MTWTh 9:00 - 9:50 am Central Time
Fall 2008 M 1:10 - 2:00 pm Central Time
and by appointment.
Lecture: Delivery via WWW
Materials: The text Statistical Quality Design and Control, 2nd edition by
DeVor, Chang and Sutherland is a required text. Course materials
including handouts of PowerPoint presentations seen on the videos
are available via WebCT. Two books by W. Edwards Deming, Out
of the Crisis and The New Economics are recommended reading.
Exams: Exam 1: by Friday, October 3
Exam 2: by Friday, November 7
Final Exam: by Friday, December 19
Assignments: The due date for each assignment is one week after
it is assigned. Corrected assignments will be returned as soon as
possible.
Grading: Grading is based on your performance on exams, the project
and homework assignments. The breakdown of points is as follows:
Exam 1: 100 pts
Exam 2: 100 pts
Homework: 100 pts
Project: 70 pts
Final Exam: 130 pts
Total 500 pts
WebCT, online video and handbook materials: All handouts and handbook materials are available to students registered for this course through WebCT. To access WebCT go to the homepage of Iowa State University (http://www.iastate.edu) and follow the link to WebCT either under Students or Computers & the Web. You will be asked to login with your WebCT ID and Password.
Computing:
You can download JMP by going to www.sitelicensed.iastate.edu/software/ You should be able to directly download an install JMP from there. You will have to type in your ISU netid and password in order to do this. Once the file is downloaded to your desktop (it is a pretty big file at 271 MB) run the Initialize.exe and follow the step-by-step instructions. When you come to the option to Modify, Repair or Remove, select Repair. The installation program should do the rest.
If this does not work, a CD can be sent to you with the JMP software on it. You may install JMP on your personal computer. The software will work until June 30, 2009.
Course handouts:
Homework assignments: Fall 2008
Column Id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Name: Top Bottom Shift Part Operator Thickness Data Type: Numeric Numberic Character Character Character Numeric Data Row1: 3.9 4.4 1 1 1 4.9 Date Row2: 3.4 4.2 1 1 1 4.8Click on the >> to move over to Columns 4 and 5. Change Columns 3, 4, and 5 (Shift, Part and Operator) from Numeric to Character and Apply Settings. Click on OK. Don't worry if you get the warning that non-numeric characters appear in numeric columns.
Solutions to Homework assignments: Fall 2008 will be available on
WebCT. Solutions are made available only after assignments have been
submitted.
Exam Material: