Tuesday 8/27
Go over syllabus.
Sapling (access information is in the syllabus) book, hw , reading quiz, assignments
Why statistics?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/opinion/women-guns-domestic-violence.html?_r=0
A bar graph example from Bureau of justice Campus Climate Survey Pilot Study
Discuss R Studio layout (four windows).
Work on basics in R using Rtasks . (download this)
Download the files titanic_tr.rda and census1880midlancpa.rda. You can't open them online.
classnotes These need to be downloaded and opened in R
Benefits of R:
a. free
b. Much more able to work with large datasets, compared to calculators, and so see greater variety.
c. You readily get to evaluate real data and see statistics in context, one of GAISE's recommendations.
c. It’s easy to repeat and modify one's work. You can cut and paste the more complicated code to do more in-depth analysis.
d. Has many built in datasets
e. Built in help
f. Basics are fairly easy
Thursday 8/29-Tuesday 9/3
Download the unicef dataset
If you haven't already, download the book's r dataset. This is organized according to chapter and provides r datasets for the homework in the book. https://www.macmillanlearning.com/studentresources/college/collegebridgepage/bps8e.html#anchor3
Continue graphing exploration:
classnotes . histograms, stem plot
Thursday 9/5 Finish chapter one.
Tuesday 9/10 quiz
class notes chpt2: basic statistics . center and variability , boxplots
Thursday 9/12 Finish chapter 2. Begin chapter 3.
Week of 9/17,19 ch 3 classnotes : the normal distribution, basics, finding proportions between two values in a normal distribution, fitting and graphing a normal curve to data.
Maybe: Work on data scrubbing.
Notes (basic) on scrubbing data.
Download the excel workbook for Unicef data:
Begin group work on project. Project notes
10/15,17 Sample exam 1: R portion, solution written portion, solution r portion.
Chapter 9,10: experiments, data ethics .
10/24 Return exam; sol exam. A note about grades: e1+icpq+.4*hw; Reminder :project due 10/31. Chapter 12: probability, Chapter 13 . school kids picture
Probability project due 11/21
10/29,31: Continue on Chapter 13 -updated notes .Project due. Chapter 14-binomial distribution
11/5,7: Chapter 15-notes,Chapter 16-notes given in class
11/12,14. Chapter 17,20,21-notes given in class.
11/19,21 Work on two sample CI's and hypothesis testing; proportion CI's and hypothesis testing. Here is the rmarkdown for all notes on CI's and hypothesis testing for means and proportions for one and two samples.
11/26. Go over /review hypothesis testing, confidence intervals. Summary sheet
Work on chi-square test rmarkdown for Chi-square, ANOVA
Example of chi-square and Anova applied to hospital compare data
12/3 12/5 quiz 12/3, review, ANOVA Exam 2
Final Tuesday 12/17 8 AM