Course Schedule for Section 1
| Date | Reading | Topic of Class | |
| Aug. 24 | No readings |
Diagnostic Quiz. | |
| 26 |
FPP 1-2 |
Designed experiments. | |
| 31 |
No readings. | Ethics of experiments. | |
| Sept. 2 | FPP 3, 4, 5, 6 | Descriptive statistics, normal distributions. | |
| 7 |
No readings. |
Graphical methods. | |
| 9 |
FPP 7, 8 | Exploratory data analysis with two variables. | |
| 14 |
FPP 9 - 10 | Correlation
and simple regression. |
|
| 16 |
FPP 11 - 12 | More on simple
regression |
|
| 21 |
FPP 13 - 14 |
Basics of
probability. |
|
| 23 |
FPP 15 |
Binomial
probabilities. |
|
| 28 | No readings |
Applications
of probability. |
|
| 30 |
No readings |
Contingency tables, relative risks, odds ratios. | |
| Oct. 5 |
No readings |
Review. |
|
| 7 |
Midterm Exam I | Link to instructions for Midterm I. | 12 |
FALL BREAK: No class. |
| 14 |
FPP 16 - 18 |
Expected values, standard errors, Central Limit Theorem. | |
| 19 |
FPP 19 | Design of surveys. |
|
| 21 |
FPP 20, 21 | Confidence
intervals. |
|
| 26 |
FPP 22 - 23 |
More on
confidence intervals. |
|
| 28 |
FPP 24, 25 | Significance tests. | |
| Nov. 2 |
FPP 26, 27 | More on significance tests. | |
| 4 |
FPP 28 | Chi-squared tests. | |
| 9 |
FPP 29 |
Limitations of
significance testing approach. |
|
| 11 |
No readings. |
Review. |
|
| 16 |
Midterm Exam II | Link to instructions for Midterm II. | |
| 18 |
Handout. | Bayes rule and Bayesian philosophy. |
|
| 23 |
Handout. |
Priors, likelihoods, and posteriors for normal model. |
|
| 25 |
THANKSGIVING: No class. |
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| 30 |
Handout. |
Introduction to multiple regression. |
|
| Dec. 2 |
No readings. |
Review. |
|
| Dec. 9 |
Final Exam, 7:00-10:00pm. | Link to instructions for the Final. |