This is an abbreviated course syllabus. Particularly because this is
our first time using this text, it is almost certain to change.
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Date |
Topic |
Preparation |
Work Due |
Handouts |
| Week 1 |
| 01 | Wednesday, 23 January 2008 | Introduction to MAT/SST115
Preliminaries.
Why are you here?
What is statistics, anyway?
Some silly (or not-so-silly) examples.
A bit about the course.
Comparing sections.
Parting thoughts.
| | Introductory Statistics Survey | |
| 02 | Friday, 25 January 2008 | Data, Variables, and Distributions
Quick review of Topic 1.
Workshop activity: Topic 2.
Debriefing.
| All of Topic 1: Data and Variables (on your own); Preliminaries for Topic 2: Data and Distributions | Course Survey | |
| Week 2 |
| 03 | Monday, 28 January 2008 | An Introduction to Linux and R
A bit about Linux.
A bit about R.
Work with R.
| No preparatory work required | Activities 2-9, 2-11, 2-14 | |
| 04 | Wednesday, 30 January 2008 | An Introduction to R, Continued
Detour: Comments on Topic 3.
Short review.
Lab, continued.
Reflection.
| | Topic 3 | |
| 05 | Friday, 1 February 2008 | Topic 4: Random Sampling
Bias in sampling.
How do you select randomly ?
Activities!
| Overview for Topic 4 | Activities 3-7, 3-12, 3-20, 3-28 | |
| Week 3 |
| 06 | Monday, 4 February 2008 | Topic 5: Designing Experiments
Cause-and-effect analyses.
Experimental design.
| Overview and Preliminaries 1-3 of Topic 6 | Activites 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, 4-12, 4-20 | |
| 07 | Wednesday, 6 February 2008 | Topic 6: Two-Way Tables
Summary of Unit 1.
Looking ahead to Unit 2.
Topic 6: Two-Way Tables
| | Activities 5-8, 5-10, 5-12, 5-16, 5-25, 5-27, 5-28 | |
| 08 | Friday, 8 February 2008 | Topic 7: Displaying and Describing Distributions
Reporting on quantitative variables.
Group activity: The Matching Game.
Topic 7.
Computer activity: Histograms.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 7 | Activities 6-6, 6-10, 6-26, 6-30 [cancelled] | |
| Week 4 |
| 09 | Monday, 11 February 2008 | Topic 8: Measures of Center
A few past topics: Homework, skew, etc.
Ways to think about center.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 8 | Activities 6-26, 6-30, 7-8, 7-12 | |
| 10 | Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | Topic 9: Measures of Spread
Beyond centers and shape: Spread.
| Overview and Preliminaries 1-3 for Topic 9 | Activities 8-9, 8-17, 8-18, 8-22, 8-23 | |
| 11 | Friday, 15 February 2008 | Topic 10: More Summary Measures and Graphs
Some past topics: Spread, IQR, etc.
Visualizing summary statistics.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 10 | Activities 9-14, 9-15, 9-20, 9-23 | |
| Week 5 |
| 12 | Monday, 18 February 2008 | Review / Project Discussion
Quick review of Unit 1.
Quick review of Unit 2.
About the exam.
Studying for the exam.
Questions and answers.
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| 13 | Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | Exam 1
Exam
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| 14 | Friday, 22 February 2008 | Topic 11: Probability
On to a new Unit.
Simulation.
Probabilities.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 11 | | |
| Week 6 |
| 15 | Monday, 25 February 2008 | Topic 12: Normal Distributions
Thinking about normal distributions.
From z scores to percentages.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 12 | Activities 11-6, 11-7, 11-20, 11-22, 11-23 | |
| 16 | Wednesday, 27 February 2008 | Topic 13: Sampling Distributions: Proportions
The normal distribution, revisited.
Normal probability plots.
How the normal distributions help you think about samples (and vice versa).
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 13 | Activities 12-5, 12-9, 12-17, 12-18 | |
| 17 | Friday, 29 February 2008 | Pause for Breath
| | Activities 13-7, 13-9, 13-13, 13-18 | |
| Week 7 |
| 18 | Monday, 3 March 2008 | Topic 14: Sampling Distributions: Means
Means of samples vs. population means.
How does CLT help?
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| 19 | Wednesday, 5 March 2008 | Topic 15: Central Limit Theorem
Reflections on Unit 3
Today's activities: Putting it Together
| | Activities 14-6, 14-7, 14-9, and 14-12 | |
| 20 | Friday, 7 March 2008 | Topic 16: Confidence Intervals: Proportions
Samples vs. Populations, Revisited.
Estimating Population Proportions from Sample Proportions.
Exploring the Confidence of Our Estimates.
| | Activities 15-7, 15-8, 15-13, 15-14, and 16-1 | |
| Week 8 |
| 21 | Monday, 10 March 2008 | Topic 17: Tests of Significance: Proportions
Assessing hypotheses about proportions.
The role of samples.
Null and alternate hypotheses.
Test statistics.
p-values.
| Overview and Preliminaries (as appropriate) for Topic 17 | Activities 16-7, 16-9, 16-10, 16-19, 16-21 | |
| 22 | Wednesday, 12 March 2008 | Topic 17: Tests of Significance: Proportions (Continued)
Why this issue is so important.
From English to Math and back again.
Continue work from the previous class.
Begin Topic 18 (if time permits).
| Review your work from the previous class | | |
| 23 | Friday, 14 March 2008 | Class Cancelled
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| Spring Break! |
| Week 9 |
| 24 | Monday, 31 March 2008 | Pause for Breath
Review of confidence intervals and tests of significance.
Discussion of Topic 18.
| | Topic 18 (in-class activities) | |
| 25 | Wednesday, 2 April 2008 | Topic 19: Confidence Intervals: Means
Quick review of confidence intervals.
Confidence Intervals, Revisited.
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| 26 | Friday, 4 April 2008 | About the Projects
Purpose: Independent Statistical Analysis.
Dataset: Information on Grinnell Students.
Activities (Mini-Project): Memo, Lightning Presentations.
Activities (Full Project): Short paper (2-3 pages), Poster.
| | Activities 19-7, 19-12, 19-13, 19-19, 19-22 | |
| Week 10 |
| 27 | Monday, 7 April 2008 | Review for Exam 2
Form of the exam.
The big picture.
Some key ideas.
Free-for-all.
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| 28 | Wednesday, 9 April 2008 | Exam 2
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| 29 | Friday, 11 April 2008 | Topic 21: Comparing Two Proportions
Sampling from multiple populations.
New formulate for confidence and intervals and test statistics.
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| Week 11 |
| 30 | Monday, 14 April 2008 | Topic 24: Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Exploring categorical variables.
The chi-squared test.
Using the chi-squared table.
| | 21-9, 21-10, 21-11, 21-22, and 21-23 | |
| 31 | Wednesday, 16 April 2008 | Mini-Project Presentations
Presentations.
Debriefing (if time).
| | Mini-Project Presentations | |
| 32 | Friday, 18 April 2008 | Topic 25: Inference for Two-Way Tables
Presentation Debriefing.
Today's Topic: Inferences from Samples for Categorical Variables, Continued.
Some R.
| | 24-6, 24-7, 24-9, 24-15, 24-20 | |
| Week 12 |
| 33 | Monday, 21 April 2008 | Time to Work on Projects
Q&A.
An example analysis.
Time to work.
| | Mini-Project Memos | |
| 34 | Wednesday, 23 April 2008 | Review of Key Concepts
Notes on chi-square tests.
Questions and answers on the exam.
More fun with the project.
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| 35 | Friday, 25 April 2008 | Topic 20: Tests of Significance: Means
Tests of significance, reviewed.
From proportions to means.
| Overview and Preliminaries for Topic 20 | Poster (email me a Powerpoint) | |
| Week 13 |
| 36 | Monday, 28 April 2008 | Topic 22: Comparing Two Means
Comparing two means.
A complication: Degrees of freedom.
Using R.
| | 20-8, 20-9, 20-18, 20-20 | |
| 37 | Wednesday, 30 April 2008 | Topic 23: Analyzing Paired Data
What are paired data?
How should we analyze paired data?
| | 22-5, 22-6, 22-9, 22-14, 22-27 | |
| 38 | Friday, 2 May 2008 | Topic 27: Correlation Coefficient
The Past: Quantitative Variables.
The Present: Two Quantitative Variables per OU.
Today: Numeric Measures of Relationships.
| | 26-1, 26-2, 26-3, 26-4 (not to be turned in) | |
| Week 14 |
| 39 | Monday, 5 May 2008 | Topic 28: Least Squares Regression
Where we've been, where we're going.
| | 27-9, 27-12, 27-18 | |
| 40 | Wednesday, 7 May 2008 | Topic 29: Inference for Correlation and Regression
Making inferences about populations (once again).
Important R.
| | 28-5, 28-10, 28-24, 28-25 | |
| 41 | Friday, 9 May 2008 | Wrapup
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