can some one please give me some advise on taking the stats class thru distance learning. how bad is it really. i am in the middle of taking it and i could just scream does anyone have any tips???????????
I just finished a Stats class last semester at a B&M school. On average, I screamed about three times per week. Hang in there and spend a little extra time with the material. You'll be fine. Besides, you're half way to the finish line.
lord i hope so i just sream every time i look at the book. i guess that is what i get for going back to school to get my bsn lol thanks for the input.
Wow what timing Im in the middle of Stat's also. As I told my professor, give me a financial statement I will spread it in a minute. Give me a stat problem I stupid and cross-eyed. Who ever invented statistics should of been hung by their toes!!!! Screaming!!!!! Only 2 more weeks and 4 more projects. Good Luck
I found stats to be challenging, as did many in my class. And yet, some of what I learned will actually come in handy. I tried to spend more time with the material I didn't understand and some of that work paid off. Is this managment stats?
Business Statistics here. You are correct, it takes a little more study time, well alot in my case. I carry a 4.0 and afraid my GPA will dive with this. Have a high B with a total of 6 grades left for my final. Going nuts with all the mean, median, mode, commode, sample errors, proportions, assessments, assessholes, ugh! Will be Miller time on the 26th!!!
Same here Tammy!!! Same here!! At least I can be comfortable without shoes and sloppy clothing. Heck, tried the classroom and thought I was everyones Dad!
see i wish i had some business background or something lord all i have is my nursing and it is not helping in this class. all i know is how to heal not how to do an ungodly long math prob
Actually an analyst background would come in handy. I have been in the commercial finance business for 20 years in sales and it is driving me nuts too! Hang in there. It will be over soon for both of us
Yep, No that part was easy for me, Received a 98 on my work. My problem was variance data and deviation
are you taking your test thru the learning center or at a college. cause i dont have any homework i just have to take the test at the learning center
College I have course assignments, group projects, and discussion boards. The average is 4 per week. 2-3 pages of explaination then full problem solving with complete breakdown. A PhD. professor who is very, very, tough but fair. If you get a answer wrong she will deduct the full amount of points then give you 48 hours to try again for half credit. It depends on the person, in my case, the toughest class I have had in school
Re: Wow what timing hehehe I guess now isn't the time to mention that my father is a sadistics er... statistics prof
I had an online graduate stats course through Golden Gate. The instructors were incompetent as instructors, but the book was great. Since I learned all I did on my own, and think I had an "A" in the class before I dropped it, I'm about to start a self taught regression class. What I'm finding is that it is the choice of the text that makes a lot of difference. Try "Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel" ISBN 0130970824. The other thing that made a big difference is that I wanted to take this class and learn something. I had undergrad stats 26 years ago and graduate stats 17 years ago. Although I had all the material previously, I can now see how it applies in what I'm doing at work.
I took Probability and Statistics from University of London (as part of the Math/Stats/Computing program that's unfortunately being phased out) last year. I got really busy at work, and ended up only having few weeks of free evenings at the end to really study. I managed a "high second class honors" result, which wasn't great, but I'll take it... The only way to get through it is to do lots of problems until it makes sense. If you're not already using a stats package, get one. I've been using R , which has the advantage that it's free. For the UoL course I still needed to be able to do things by hand, but it's good to use a stats package to be able to (1) check your work, (2) get a more intuitive understanding of what you're doing by looking at a lot of data.
Having done everything humanly possibly to avoid statistics in my degree program, after graduation I took it as an intensive (three-weekend) course at the local community college. That format-- complete immersion for 72 hours-- did the trick where DL or an independent study option wouldn't have. I'm guilty of often responding to posts on this forum with the presumption that DL is the *only* option other than 14-week semesters, two nights per week, for non-traditional students. In your shoes-- already grappling with the subject-- I'd look for a compressed or other intensive format rather than trying to self-teach the whole course.
I had to take graduate Statistics as part of my UMass-Lowell program, and it was one of the worst experiences I ever had. My professor (Ph.D. Michigan State) was fair but tough, and I managed to get a "B", which I was thrilled with under the circumstances. The only suggestion I can offer is to stick with it. I used almost every spare minute I had to study and do practice problems. I also stayed after class several times for tutoring and formed a study group with some other students. I know the last 2 options won't usually work for DL students, but I did get some help over the phone several times from the professor.
