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Syllabus

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Course Materials

Exam #1 Content

Week 1 (Intro)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
- - -
Wed 1/21 Introduction to Statistics Packages -
Fri 1/23 Introduction to R Introduction to R Lab 1 Template

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Get R Software:
  2. Homework 1 due Friday, Jan 30 at 10pm

Week 2 (Summaries)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 1/26 Visual Summaries ggplot -
Wed 1/28 Numerical Summaries ggplot2 -
Fri 1/30 Variance ggplot2 -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 1 due Friday, Jan 30 at 10pm
  2. Homework 2 due Friday, Feb 6 at 10pm
  3. Both ggplot labs due Monday, Feb 2 at 10pm

Week 3 (Tables and Odds)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/2 Tables 1 Tables -
Wed 2/4 Tables 2 Table Funsheet -
Fri 2/6 Odds and Odds Ratio Odds Funsheet -

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 2 due Saturday, Feb 7 at 10pm
  2. Homework 3 due Friday, Feb 13 at 10pm
  3. Table labs due Friday, Feb 6 at 10pm

Week 4 (Linear Associations)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/9 Correlation and Z dplyr
Wed 2/11 Simple Linear Regression
Fri 2/13 Regression + Categorical

Assignments and Deadlines:

  1. Homework 3 due Friday, Feb 13 at 10pm
  2. dplyr due Monday, Feb 16 at 10pm

Week 5 (Exam Week yay)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/16 😷
Wed 2/18 Exam 1 😎
Fri 2/20 🤠 Data Wranglin’ Template Data Wranglin’ PDF

Assignments and Deadlines

Exam #2 Content

Week 6 (Study Design and Sample)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 2/23 Study Design
Wed 2/25 Project Instructions Template
Fri 2/27 No Class

Assignments and Deadlines

Week 7 (Study Design and Sample)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/2 Sampling Distributions Fish 1 and Fish 2
Wed 3/4 Standard Normal
Fri 3/6 Intervals

Spring Break

Week 8 (Study Design and Sample)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/23 Confidence Intervals II CLT Funsheet CLT Lab
Wed 3/25 Hypothesis Testing Cont. CLT Funsheet
Fri 3/27 Hypothesis Testing 2

Assignments and Deadlines

Week 9 (Strength of Evidence)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 3/30 Strength of Evidence Confidence Intervals and Tests
Wed 4/1 Bootstrap
Fri 4/3 Project Day II Template

Week 10 (Decision Error)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/6 Review
Wed 4/8 Exam
Fri 4/10 Decision Error

Assignments and Deadlines

Exam 3 Content

Week 11 (Difference and \(\chi^2\))

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/13
Wed 4/15 Power and FWER
Fri 4/17 Difference Tests

Week 12 (ANOVA)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/20 Goodness of Fit Hypothesis Testing Lab
Wed 4/22 Independence
Fri 4/24 ANOVA

Assignments and Deadlines

Week 13 (Regression)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 4/27 ANOVA 2 ANOVA and Regression
Wed 4/29 SLR
Fri 5/1 Residuals

Assignments and Deadlines

  • Homework 7 due Friday at 10
  • ANOVA and Regression lab due Friday at 10

Week 14 (Regression and Project)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 5/4 MLR
Wed 5/6 Regression Packet
Fri 5/8 Project III

Assignments and Deadlines

Final

STA-209-01: Wed, May 13 from 2-5pm

STA-209-02: Thur, May 14 from 2-5pm