The essays will require you to define and discuss specific concepts or to contrast and compare related concepts. A list of key terms from which the essay items will be drawn will be distributed before each exam as a study guide. Five sets of exercises will be assigned to facilitate your mastery of the reading material and to give you experience conducting multivariate analyses and interpreting the results. Exercises will consist of study questions, computational problems, and computer assignments. Students are free to consult with one another and are encouraged to do so, but each student will receive a different set of data and must hand in his or her own complete set of exercises.
Exercises are due at the beginning of class on the dates shown in the course calendar.
All quizzes will be administered at the beginning of the laboratory session. On some occasions, there will be a lecture during laboratory time. Other laboratory sessions will be devoted to a variety of activities including review of material covered in lectures, illustration of computer-based multivariate analyses, discussion of assigned reading from the texts, and so on. Laboratory sessions will be conducted by the teaching assistant, Stephanie Eischen. Grading System .