Instructor: W. Robert Stephenson, Department of Statistics
327 Snedecor Hall, Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1210 Phone: (515) 294-7805
fax: (515) 294-4040 or (515) 294-5040
email: wrstephe@iastate.edu
homepage: www.public.iastate.edu/~wrstephe
Office Hours: MTWTh 9:00 - 9:50 am Central Time
Fall 2007 MT 1:10 - 2:00 pm Central Time
and by appointment.
Lecture: LAST OFFERED SPRING 2007
Materials: Course handouts are available on line through WebCT.
Additional material can be found on the course website.
The text from STAT 495 by Devor, Chang and Sutherland
will be used in this course. Three books:
Applications of Statistics to Industrial Experimentation
by Cuthbert Daniel, Design and Analysis of Experiments, 4th Ed.
by Douglas C. Montgomery and Statistics for Experimenters
by Box, Hunter and Hunter are good reference books.
Exams: Exam 1: Week of February 19
Exam 2: Week of April 3
Final: Week of May 7
Assignments: The due date for each assignment is established when it
is assigned. Usually homework will be due one week
after it is assigned. A team project will be due by
May 4.
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: 75 pts
Final Exam: 125 pts
Total 500 pts
WebCT, online video and handbook materials: Course handouts 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/windows/JMP/ 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. 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, 2007.
Course handouts:
Homework solutions are available on WebCT. When you turn in an assignment, your name is added to the access list for the solution. This may take a day or two from the time your assignment is received.