If you put the appropriate time and effort into each assignment, and continually reevaluate your problem areas, you will have no difficulty with the midterm or final exam. You may do your homework in the Social Science Lab or any of the ACS labs in the North building. I will distribute the lab schedules once they are announced. You may find it helpful to work with a partner or group, and I encourage you to do so. However, the interpretive section of each assignment must be done individually.
Attendance is crucial to any statistics class because the material is cumulative.
This is doubly true when it s taught in a lab. In order to examine data at later stages of sophistication one must keep up with the fundamentals and ins and outs of the softrware. In addition, you will have great difficulty with weekly homeworks if you are absent for class lectures, which are designed to prepare you for assignments. If you are not sure you can make the necessary time commitment, you should arrange to take the course another semester. The midterm and final are in written form and will test your ability to interpret statistical results that largely resemble homework outputs.