Schedule

Week Date Topic Readings Slides Lab Assignment
Descriptive Statistics
1 Sep 02 Introduction to statistical inference and motivating examples AA0 Unit 1 001, 002 001-getting-started
2 Sep 07 Exploring data AA0 Unit 3, AAO Unit 4, AAO Unit 5, AAO Unit 6, Section 1.1 – 1.5 003, 004 A1 due Sep 6
Sep 09 Data visualization ggplot2 grammar guide, Section 1.6 005
3 Sep 14 Grammar of graphics Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5 006 002-data-basics A2 due Sep 13
Sampling Distributions
Sep 16 Statistical parameters Section 6 007
4 Sep 21 Probability Section 7, AAO Unit 18, AAO Unit 19 008 A3 due Oct 3
Sep 23 Random Variables Section 8, AAO Unit 20 009
5 Sep 28 Sampling Distributions, Normal Curves, CLT Section 9, Section 10, AAO Unit 7, AAO Unit 8, AAO Unit 22 010, 011, 012 003-ocean-depths, 004-pnorm-qnorm
Sep 30 Confidence Intervals Section 11, AAO Unit 24 013
6 Oct 05 Bootstrap Scientific American Article, Section 12 014
One Sample Inference
Oct 07 One sample mean Section 13, AAO Unit 26 015 005-one-sample-mean
7 Oct 12 READING BREAK – NO LECTURE
Oct 14 MONDAY SCHEDULE – NO LECTURE
Oct 15 p-values (make-up lecture for Tuesday) AAO Unit 25 016 A4 due Oct 15
8 Oct 19 Midterm review A5 due Oct 18
Oct 21 Midterm
9 Oct 26 Power 017 006-power
Regression
Oct 28 One sample proportion Section 14, Section 15, AAO Unit 21, AAO Unit 28 019 007-one-sample-prop
10 Nov 02 One sample rate 020 008-one-sample-rate A6 due Nov 4
Nov 04 Linear regression 1 AAO Unit 30, AAO Unit 27 021
11 Nov 09 Linear regression 2 022
Nov 11 Poisson regression 1 023
12 Nov 16 Poisson regression 2
Nov 18 Logistic regression 1 024 009-logistic-reg A7 due Nov 19
13 Nov 23 Logistic regression 1 025
Nov 25 Logistic regression 2
14 Nov 30 ROC curves 026 A8 due Dec 1
Dec 02 Final review 027
Dec 09 Final
Dec 22 Group project Group project due