Tentative Schedule

Week Topic Reading Assignment
Sep 10 Course overview, statistics and sampling, R intro Ch. 1 No assignment
Sep 15 & 17 Histograms, Outliers, Density Curves, Variation, R continued Ch. 2 Assn 1
Sep 22 & 24 Variation continued, Empirical Rule, Scatterplots Ch. 2 Assn 2
S/O 29 & 1 Correlation and Regression Ch. 12 Quiz 1 (Tuesday); Assn 3
Oct 6 & 8 Causation, Principles in Study Design Course notes Assn 4
Oct 13 & 15 Intro probability Ch. 3 Midterm (Thursday)
Oct 20 & 22 Probability, random variables Ch. 3, 4 Assn 5
Oct 27 & 29 Distributions Ch. 5, 6 Assn 6
Nov 3 & 5 Central limit theorem, Confidence intervals Ch. 7, 8 Assn 7
Nov 10 & 12 Hypothesis testing Ch. 9, 10 Quiz 2 (Tuesday); Assn 8
Nov 17 Multiple regression; review Notes Assn 9
Nov 24     Final Exam (Tuesday)

Final exam is Tuesday November 24 from 11:30am to 1:45pm in the regular classroom.