Assignment For Thursday, 8/29 -

A) Read Chapters 0 and 1 of the textbook for class Thursday. You might also want to view the videos in the StatTutor resources with each chapter.There will be a small quiz due before class on Sapling on your reading.

B) Read the npr article below and report on two two statistics in it.Write a paragraph or two about the statistics, explaining what they are, what the sources are for them (besides the article), what surprised or impressed you about those statistics, how these numbers might effect you or someone close to you. Bring this to class on Wednesday.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572298802/nearly-dying-in-childbirth-why-preventable-complications-are-growing-in-u-s

C) Install R and R-studio on your laptop or computer

Try to install R and R studio on your laptop: Link for instruction on installing R and R studio: Go to Chapter 0 https://bookdown.org/speegled/foundations-of-statistics/ It's pretty easy. I did it..

If you have difficulties with this, I can help you during office hours (see syllabus). Absolutely, don't worry -we will get this figured out.

If you don't have a laptop, the classroom is a computer classroom with R, and you can use the above to install R and R studio on your home computer.

You can also use R over the internet and so on your iPad (with keyboard) or whatever by going to https://rstudio.cloud/. You'll need to set up an account with them, but it's free. It is not as reliable as R on your machine.

D) Fill out the following information on you. Thank you!

E) 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

Assignment for Tuesday 9/3

Make sure you have done all of the above. Be sure to bring the written assignment (B) into class on Tuesday.

Download and look at classnotes 2 . chpt 1 summary: R code: hist, stem, plot, str, knitting (This is an rmarkdown)

Download and look at class notes: more graphs chpt 1. Summary: loading a file in an rmarkdown; restricting the dataset based on values of a variable; histograms; filter; stacked histogram

We will be working with both of these in class.

Assignment for 9/5.Work on the rmarkdown from Tuesday's class through line 92.