02-05-2011, 08:09 PM
Aleks stats is not easy. It is totally doable but is not easy by any means.
Here is how I did it. I have a LOT of math in my past, 4 college calculus classes and I am a computer programmer.
I logged in and took the initial stats assessment. If you pass this with a 70% you will be done, end of story. You won't however. You will pass some of the basic math stuff and the prob and stat questions will stump you and you will end up after the assessment with a portion of the stats pie filled in. Its a pie chart that you can click on to navigate to more difficult sections of the course.
Say you click on descriptive statistics. They will ask you a question like, calculate the std deviation of the following numbers. You do it, if you answer this type of question right 3 times in a row, they add it to your pie. You continue working pie pieces until a certain point where they give you an assessment again. Now is your chance to do better than last time.
If you are smart and read this forum, you realized that you should print every detailed answer to a pdf or some sort of electronic file and save them in a stats folder on your hard drive. You'll see how this works. When you answer wrong in the non-assessment part you will be given the detailed explanation of how to work the problem and the answer. Click the print buttoo, choose Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS document writer. If you don't have these options you could just print to paper if you want but I recommend XPS or PDF. Save all the examples in the folder. When you do an assessment you can search the folder for the exact type of question and redo the work.
Stats took me 8 days to complete. Two weekend days, part time during the week and one more weekend day to finish up. It kicked my but. I had a lot of notes that I just recently threw away.
Straighterline is great for accounting and business communication. I have no experience with stats but definitely use them for those two classes.
PM me for my stats notes if you want. I'll zip them and send out.
Here is how I did it. I have a LOT of math in my past, 4 college calculus classes and I am a computer programmer.
I logged in and took the initial stats assessment. If you pass this with a 70% you will be done, end of story. You won't however. You will pass some of the basic math stuff and the prob and stat questions will stump you and you will end up after the assessment with a portion of the stats pie filled in. Its a pie chart that you can click on to navigate to more difficult sections of the course.
Say you click on descriptive statistics. They will ask you a question like, calculate the std deviation of the following numbers. You do it, if you answer this type of question right 3 times in a row, they add it to your pie. You continue working pie pieces until a certain point where they give you an assessment again. Now is your chance to do better than last time.
If you are smart and read this forum, you realized that you should print every detailed answer to a pdf or some sort of electronic file and save them in a stats folder on your hard drive. You'll see how this works. When you answer wrong in the non-assessment part you will be given the detailed explanation of how to work the problem and the answer. Click the print buttoo, choose Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS document writer. If you don't have these options you could just print to paper if you want but I recommend XPS or PDF. Save all the examples in the folder. When you do an assessment you can search the folder for the exact type of question and redo the work.
Stats took me 8 days to complete. Two weekend days, part time during the week and one more weekend day to finish up. It kicked my but. I had a lot of notes that I just recently threw away.
Straighterline is great for accounting and business communication. I have no experience with stats but definitely use them for those two classes.
PM me for my stats notes if you want. I'll zip them and send out.
BSBA CIS from TESC, BA Natural Science/Math from TESC
MBA Applied Computer Science from NCU
Enrolled at NCU in the PhD Applied Computer Science
MBA Applied Computer Science from NCU
Enrolled at NCU in the PhD Applied Computer Science
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