STA 209 Applied Statistics (Spring 2026)

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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:
   • Download R
   • Download R Studio
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 1 Topic List
• Practice Exam 1
• Oral Exam Guidelines
• SLR bonus review

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

• Data Wrangle Lab due Wednesday at 10pm
• Bar Graph from Exam 1

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

• Homework 4 due Sunday 3/29 at 10pm
• Critical Value Sheet
• New office hour schedule!
  • Wednesday 1:30-2:30
  • Tuesday 10-11
  • Regular times on calendly
• CLT Worksheet Solutions

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

• Homework 5 due Friday at 10pm (regular time)
• Confidence Interval Lab due Monday 10pm
• Practice Exam 2
• Exam 2 Topic List

Week 10 (Decision Error)

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

Assignments and Deadlines

• Peer Mentor Evaluations!
  • Section 01 at 830
  • Section 02 at 10
• Apply to be stat mentor/grader
• Stuff we need for the thing
  • SHAPESPLOSION AHHHHHH!!!!!!
  • Classy music

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

Week 13 (Regression)

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

Week 14 (Regression and Project)

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

Final

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

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