Date | Readings | Topic of Class |
May 17 |
No readings. |
Introduction. |
18 |
WW 1. Designing Questions. |
Design of
surveys. |
18 |
WW 1. Using statistics to determine causal effects. |
Design of
experiments and observational studies. |
18 |
WW 2. |
Histograms, box plots, summary statistics. |
18 |
WW 2. |
Means, Medians and Modes. |
21 |
WW 2. |
Measures of variability. Shift and scale changes |
22 |
WW 11. |
Scatter plots, correlations, line fitting, contingency tables. |
22 |
WW 15. |
Scatter plots, correlations, line fitting, contingency tables. |
24-29 |
WW 3. |
Basics of probability. Conditional probability. |
June 1 |
WW 4.  |
Normality. |
5 |
All Material Covered |
Midterm 1 |
6 |
WW 5. |
Joint distributions and Iterated Expectations |