Joel Greenhouse Statistics Introduction To Statistical Reasoning Study Tips

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Joel Greenhouse, Statistics
Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
Study Tips for Stats 201 or
How to Use Your Study Time More Efficiently
1.
Read your lecture notes over within 24 hours of lecture (or at
least once before the
next lecture).
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Highlight or make marginal notes for important words or concepts.
This will help fix ideas and will help you to actively learn the
material. This review takes about 20-30 minutes and really yields
a large return.
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Re-do examples yourself, step by step, with pencil and paper.
Examples often look easy when explained in class, but often turn
out to be much harder when you do them yourself.
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Write down questions about things you do not understand. Bring
these questions to lecture, lab, and to office hours and ask them.
2. Readings are assigned for each class. Read them - if not before the
class for which they are assigned then certainly after that class and
before the next. Also, as you read, highlight, re-work examples
yourself, and write down questions, as suggested above.
3. DO HOMEWORK PROBLEMS. Actively doing problems is the only way to
learn the material. Exam questions will be similar to homework
problems.
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Start early. Do not leave assignments until the night before they
are due.
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Try doing the problems yourself before discussing them with other
people.
4. Use office hours productively. Ask thoughtful questions about
things that you do not understand. In other words, if you do (1)-(3)
above, it will be much easier to isolate what is giving you trouble.
Please take advantage of the availability of office hours.
5. Review solutions to assignments and exams. Just because you do not
lose points on a homework question does not necessarily mean you fully
understand the question and answer. Also, the solutions should serve
as a model for how to write, using proper sentences and paragraphs,
discussions and interpretations of data analyses.
6. We will make every effort to help you learn the course material,
but you must also make an effort to utilize the resources that are
made available to help you. Please come talk to us – not only when you
are having trouble but also when things are going well.