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Syllabus

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Course Materials

Exam #1 Content

Week 1 (Intro)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
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Fri 8/28 Introduction to Statistics Packages -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Get R Software:

Week 2 (Summaries)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 8/31 Walkthrough R Introduction to R -
Wed 9/2 Visual Summaries ggplot -
Friday 9/4 Numerical Summaries ggplot -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 1 due Monday, 9/7 at 10pm
  2. Lab 1 (Intro to R) due Wednesday, 9/2 at 10pm
  3. ggplot lab due Wednesday, 9/9 at 10pm
  4. Homework 2 due Friday, 9/11 at 10pm

Week 3 (Tables and Odds)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/7 Labor Day 👷 ggplot2 (bonus lab) -
Wed 9/9 Tables Tables -
Fri 9/11 Tables 2 / Probabilities Table Funsheet -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 1 due Monday, 9/7 at 10pm
  2. ggplot lab due Wednesday, 9/9 at 10pm
  3. Homework 2 due Wednesday, 9/16 at 10pm
  4. Homework 3 due Wednesday, 9/23 at 10pm

Week 4 (Linear Associations)

Date Lecture Lab
Mon 9/14 Odds Ratios Odds Funsheet
Wed 9/16 Correlation and Z dplyr
Fri 9/18 Simple Linear Regression dplyr

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 2 due Wednesday, 9/16 at 10pm
  2. Homework 3 due Wednesday, 9/23 at 10pm
  3. In-class Example

Week 5 (Regression, Review, and Reckonings)

Date Lecture Lab
Mon 9/21 Categorical Predictors dplyr
Wed 9/23 Review and Practice
Fri 9/25 Exam 1

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 3 due Wednesday, 9/23 at 10pm
  2. dplyr due Wednesday, 9/23 at 10pm
  3. Homework 4 – Make a notecard!
  4. Exam 1 Topic list and review questions

Week 6 (Yeehaw)

Date Lecture Lab
Mon 9/28 🤠 Penguin Wranglin’
Wed 9/30 Goals of EDA Wranglin’ Template
Fri 10/02 Project Day (Exploratory Data Analysis) Template

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. EDA due Friday Oct 2 at 9:30am
  2. Data Wrangle lab due Friday Oct 2, 10pm

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 8/5 Sampling Distributions Fish 1 and Fish 2
Wed 8/7 Standard Normal
Fri 8/9 Intervals

Assignments and Deadlines: