This document serves as an outline and set of lecture notes for STAT 301, 302, and 303 for the Fall semester 1996 (2 sections of 301, 10 sections of 302, and 8 sections of 303, thus approximately 1,000 students).
With the help of the lab fee you had to pay to take the course, the Department of Statistics has created a computer laboratory in Room 161 of the Blocker Building containing 25 PC's (100 Megahertz 486's with 16 Megabytes of RAM, 550 Megabyte hard disks, and 15 inch monitors with special graphics cards) with a wide variety of software (Microsoft Office and a statistics package called Stataquest for Windows.)
Each week, one of your class periods will meet in the lab while you will meet in a different class room for the remaining one or two class periods. During the lab period you will be shown how to use Stataquest to do the data analyses you have learned about during the previous class periods. You will then be given homework (to be done outside of lab time) that will require the use of the software in the lab. To be sure you will be able to do this, the lab is open Monday and Wednesday from 4:00-7:00 pm, Tuesday and Thursday from 5:10-7:00 pm, Friday from 9:00-4:00 pm, and Sunday from 3:00-6:00 pm for general student use with TA's available for help. Further, all the software you will need will also be installed on all of the publicly available PC's on campus.
Good luck in the course!
H. Joseph Newton
Professor and Head
Department of Statistics
Send e-mail to: 30xlab@stat.tamu.edu