Statistics 103: Spring 2007
  Probability and Statistical Inference

Course Schedule


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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