STAT 202: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the quarter. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to catch up on missed work. That means review the slides, complete the activity, submit any homework, and attend office hours if you need help.

Week Date Topic Prepare Agenda Homework
Reading Slides Activity submit_act Tutorial due

1

Wed Sep 25 Introduction

Syllabus

Posit: practice

Canvas: RC_01

Thu Sep 26
Fri Sep 27 Posit Cloud

Preface & Ch 1

Slides: Ch1

Posit: act_01

Canvas: act_01

Canvas: RC_02

Sun Sep 29

2

Mon Sep 30 Data Visualization

Sections 2.0 - 2.3

Slides: Ch2a

Posit: act_02

Canvas: act_02

Canvas: RC_03

Tue Oct 01
Wed Oct 02 Data Visualization

Sections 2.4 - 2.6

Slides: Ch2b

Posit: act_03

Canvas: act_03

Canvas: RC_04

Thu Oct 03
Fri Oct 04 Data Visualization

Sections 2.7 - 2.9

Slides: Ch2c

Posit: act_04

Canvas: act_04

Canvas: RC_05

Sun Oct 06

3

Mon Oct 07 Data Wrangling

Sections 3.0 - 3.3

Slides: Ch3a

Posit: act_05

Canvas: act_05

Canvas: RC_06

Tue Oct 08
Wed Oct 09 Data Wrangling

Sections 3.4 - 3.9

Slides: Ch3b

Posit: act_06

Canvas: act_06

Canvas: RC_07

Thu Oct 10
Fri Oct 11 Tidy Data

Chapter 4

Slides: Ch4

Posit: act_07

Canvas: act_07

Sun Oct 13

4

Mon Oct 14 Exam 1

Canvas: RC_08

Tue Oct 15
Wed Oct 16 Basic Regression

Sections 5.0 - 5.1

Slides: Ch5a

Posit: act_08

Canvas: act_08

Canvas: RC_09

Thu Oct 17
Fri Oct 18 Basic Regression

Sections 5.2 - 5.4

Slides: Ch5b

Posit: act_09

Canvas: act_09

Canvas: RC_10

Sun Oct 20

5

Mon Oct 21 Multiple Regression

Sections 6.0 - 6.1

Slides: Ch6a

Posit: act_10

Canvas: act_10

Canvas: RC_11

Tue Oct 22
Wed Oct 23 Multiple Regression

Sections 6.2 - 6.4

Slides: Ch6b

Posit: act_11

Canvas: act_11

Canvas: RC_12

Thu Oct 24
Fri Oct 25 Randomization & Causality

Chapter 7

Slides: Ch7

Posit: act_12

Canvas: act_12

Canvas: RC_13

Sun Oct 27

6

Mon Oct 28 Pop & Generalizability

Chapter 8

Slides: Ch8

Posit: act_13

Canvas: act_13

Tue Oct 29
Wed Oct 30 Exam 2 Thu Oct 31
Fri Nov 01 Normal Distributions

Sections 9.0 - 9.1

Slides: Ch9.1

Posit: act_14

Canvas: act_14

Canvas: RC_14

Sun Nov 03

7

Mon Nov 04 Sampling Distributions

Sections 9.2 - 9.3

Slides: Ch9.2-9.3

Posit: act_15

Canvas: act_15

Canvas: RC_15

Tue Nov 05
Wed Nov 06 Sampling Distributions

Sections 9.4 - 9.7

Slides: Ch9.4+

Posit: act_16

Canvas: act_16

Canvas: RC_16

Thu Nov 07
Fri Nov 08 Confidence Intervals

Chapter 10

Slides: Ch10a

Posit: act_17

Canvas: RC_17

Sun Nov 10

8

Mon Nov 11 Confidence Intervals

Slides: Ch10b

Posit: act_17 (cont’d)

Canvas: act_17

Tue Nov 12
Wed Nov 13 P-values

Chapter 11

Slides: Ch11

Posit: act_18

Canvas: act_18

Canvas: RC_18

Thu Nov 14
Fri Nov 15 Hypothesis Testing I

Chapter 12

Slides: Ch12a

Posit: act_19

Canvas: act_19

Canvas: RC_19

Sun Nov 17

9

Mon Nov 18 Hypothesis Testing II

Slides: Ch12b

Posit: act_20

Tue Nov 19
Wed Nov 20 Hypothesis Testing III

Posit: act_20 (cont’d)

Canvas: act_20

Thu Nov 21
Fri Nov 22 Project Overview Sun Nov 24

10

Mon Nov 25 Exam 3 Tue Nov 26
Wed Nov 27 Thanksgiving - No Class Thu Nov 28

11

Mon Dec 02 Reading Period - No Class Tue Dec 03
Wed Dec 04 Reading Period - No Class

Remote OH on Zoom

Thu Dec 05
Fri Dec 06 Reading Period - No Class

Remote OH on Zoom

Sun Dec 08

12

Mon Dec 09 Final project due Monday 11:59pm Tue Dec 10
Thu Dec 12 Optional Final Exam: 3 pm central time

Remote on Zoom

Fri Dec 13