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Syllabus

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Course Materials

Solutions

Exam #1 Content

Week 1 (Intro)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 1/20 - - -
Wed 1/22 Introduction to Statistics - Packages
Fri 1/24 Introduction to R Intro to R -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Download R
  2. Download R Studio

Week 2 (Summaries)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 1/27 Visual Summaries ggplot -
Wed 1/29 Numerical Summaries ggplot -
Fri 1/31 No Class ggplot2 -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  • Homework 1, due Friday 2/7 at 10pm
  • ggplot lab due Monday night 2/3 at 10pm

Week 3 (Tables and Odds)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/3 Variance Tables -
Wed 2/5 Tables tables -
Fri 2/7 Odds Odds Funsheet -

Assignments and Deadlines:

Week 4 (Regression)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/10 Z Scores and Correlation dplyr -
Wed 2/12 Regression - -
Fri 2/14 Regression Categorical - -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  • Tables lab due 2/10 at 10pm
  • Homework 2 due Feb 14
  • Homework 3 due Friday 2/21 at 10pm

Week 5 (Probability)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/17 Probability 1 (Introduction) Worksheet 1 Reading (Sections 3.1)
Wed 2/19 Probability 2 (Conditional and Independence) Worksheet 2 Reading (Sections 3.1 and 3.2)
Fri 2/21 Probability 3 (Bayes) Worksheet 3 Reading (Sections 3.2)

Assignments and Deadlines:

  • Homework 3 due Friday 2/21
  • No R lab this week
  • No homework assigned this week, but here are a list of practice problems for probability
  • Probability labs are completion, but I highly recommend you know how to do them

Exam 2 Content

Week 6 (Study Design)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/24 Review - -
Wed 2/26 Exam 1 - -
Fri 2/28 Study Design dplyr + ggplot2 practice -

Assignments and Deadlines:

Week 7 (Sampling)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/3 Sampling Distribution Fish 1 and Fish 2 -
Wed 3/5 Intervals - Final Project
Fri 3/7 - -

Week 8 and 9

Spring Break

Week 10 (Standard Normal and t-Distribution)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/24 Review CLT Funsheet CLT Functions
Wed 3/26 Standard Normal Distribution CLT Funsheet cont. -
Fri 3/28 t-distribution Lab -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  • Homework 4 (Exam Corrections) due 3/24 by 5pm
  • Group assignment due 3/24 by 5pm
  • Project topic due 3/28, 10pm
  • Homework 5 due Friday, 3/28

Week 11 (Proportions and Bootstrap)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/31 Proportions Proportions and CI
Wed 4/2 Hypothesis Testing Practice t-statistic -
Fri 4/4 Null Distribution Funsheet -

Week 12 (Hypothesis Testing)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/7 Strength of Evidence
Wed 4/9 Strength of Evidence (Part 2) -
Fri 4/11 No class -

Week 13 (Decision Error)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/14 Review
Wed 4/16 Exam 2 😎 -
Fri 4/18 Decision Error -

Week 14 (\(\chi^2\) Tests)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/21 Difference Tests
Wed 4/23 Goodness of Fit Hypothesis Testing -
Fri 4/25 \(\chi^2\) Tests of Independence -