Stat 301 - Updated Schedule (last updated 11/24)

 

Day

Date

Investigations

Topic

HW Due

Comparing Treatment Groups

M

9/22

Prologue

Introduction

BB survey

T

9/23

1.1.1

Summarizing categorical data

Inv 1.1.1 (a)-(e)

R

9/25

1.2.1-2

Analyzing categorical data

PP 1

F

9/26

1.3.1

Confounding

PP 1.2.2, HW 1

M

9/29

1.4.1-2

Designing experiments

PP 1.3.2

T

9/30

1.5.1

Statistical significance

Lab 1, PP 1.4.3, Inv 1.5.1 (a)–(e)

R

10/2

1.6.1

Probability

MP 1 Proposal, PP 1.5.1

F

10/3

1.6.2

Counting methods, start 1.7.1 (start 1.7.1)

HW 2

M

10/6

1.7.1-2

Fisher’s Exact Test, Normal approximation

 

T

10/7

2.1.1-2

Summarizing quantitative data

 

R

10/9

2.1.3

Summarizing quantitative data (cont.)

Mini-project 1

F

10/10

2.1.4-5

Variability

 

M

10/13

2.2.1

Statistical significance

Lab 2 (MCI)

T

10/4

2.2.2-3

Statistical significance (cont.), t approximation

 

R

10/16

 

Review

HW 3

F

10/17

 

Exam 1, Ch. 1 and 2

 

Inference from Samples to Population

M

10/20

3.1.1

Sampling from Populations, Processes (RP)

 

T

10/21

4.1.1-2

Models of quantitative data

 

R

10/23

4.2.1, Ex 4.2

Normal probability model

 

F

10/24

4.3.1

Sampling distributions

HW 4

M

10/27

4.3.2

Central Limit Theorem

 

T

10/28

4.3.3

Tests of Significance

Lab 3 (3.1.2)

R

10/30

4.3.5

Confidence Intervals

 

F

10/31

4.3.4

Interpreting CIs, types of error

HW 5

M

11/3

4.3.6

Alternative procedures

 

T

11/4

4.4.1

Distributions of sample means

Lab 4 (Ex 4.3)

R

11/6

4.4.2

t distribution

 

F

11/7

4.4.3

t procedures

HW 6

M

11/10

4.4.4

Paired comparisons

 

T

11/11

 

No Class – Veterans’ Day

Lab 5 (Ex 4.4)

R

11/13

 

Review

 

F

11/14

 

Exam 2, Ch. 3 and 4

 

Comparing Samples

M

11/17

5.1.1-2

Comparing population proportions

T

11/18

5.2.1

Comparing categorical treatments

 

R

11/20

5.3.1

Comparing population means

 

F

11/21

5.3.2, 3

Comparing population means (cont.)

 

M

11/24

5.4.1, 5.5.1

Comparing quantitative treatments

 

T

11/25

5.1.3

Inference for Odds Ratios

HW 7

R

11/27

 

No Class – Happy Thanksgiving!

 

F

11/28

 

 

M

12/1

4.5.1-2

Bootstrapping

 

T

12/2

Bootstrapping cont

 

R

12/4

 

Presentations

 

F

12/5

 

Review

HW 8

M

12/8

 

Final Exam, 10:10-1:00

Mini-Project 3

T

12/9

 

Final Exam, 10:10-1:00