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

class notes: more graphs

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:

unicef datasets

Begin group work on project. Project notes

Week of 9/24,26. Scrubbing data. Work on chapter 4. Scatter plots and correlation(notes) . Regression (notes), chapter 5.

10/8,10. Quiz. Work on two-way tables-chapter 6 (notes). Sampling, experiments, data ethics. Chapter 8-10 , Project -due 10/31

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