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

Tue Mar 26 Introduction

Syllabus

Posit: practice

Canvas: RC_01

Tue Mar 26
Wed Mar 27 Posit Cloud

Preface & Ch 1

Slides: Ch1

Posit: act_01

Canvas: act_01

Canvas: RC_02

Thu Mar 28
Fri Mar 29 Data Visualization

Sections 2.0 - 2.3

Slides: Ch2a

Posit: act_02

Canvas: act_02

Canvas: RC_03

Sun Mar 31

2

Mon Apr 01 Data Visualization

Sections 2.4 - 2.6

Slides: Ch2b

Posit: act_03

Canvas: act_03

Canvas: RC_04

Tue Apr 02
Wed Apr 03 Data Visualization

Sections 2.7 - 2.9

Slides: Ch2c

Posit: act_04

Canvas: act_04

Canvas: RC_05

Thu Apr 04
Fri Apr 05 Data Wrangling

Sections 3.0 - 3.3

Slides: Ch3a

Posit: act_05

Canvas: act_05

Canvas: RC_06

Sun Apr 07

3

Mon Apr 08 Data Wrangling

Sections 3.4 - 3.9

Slides: Ch3b

Posit: act_06

Canvas: act_06

Canvas: RC_07

Tue Apr 09
Wed Apr 10 Tidy Data

Chapter 4

Slides: Ch4

Posit: act_07

Canvas: act_07

Thu Apr 11
Fri Apr 12 Exam 1

Canvas: RC_08

Sun Apr 14

4

Mon Apr 15 Basic Regression

Sections 5.0 - 5.1

Slides: Ch5a

Posit: act_08

Canvas: act_08

Canvas: RC_09

Tue Apr 16
Wed Apr 17 Basic Regression

Sections 5.2 - 5.4

Slides: Ch5b

Posit: act_09

Canvas: act_09

Canvas: RC_10

Thu Apr 18
Fri Apr 19 Multiple Regression

Sections 6.0 - 6.1

Slides: Ch6a

Posit: act_10

Canvas: act_10

Canvas: RC_11

Sun Apr 21

5

Mon Apr 22 Multiple Regression

Sections 6.2 - 6.4

Slides: Ch6b

Posit: act_11

Canvas: act_11

Canvas: RC_12

Tue Apr 23
Wed Apr 24 Randomization & Causality

Chapter 7

Slides: Ch7

Posit: act_12

Canvas: act_12

Canvas: RC_13

Thu Apr 25
Fri Apr 26 Pop & Generalizability

Chapter 8

Slides: Ch8

Posit: act_13

Canvas: act_13

Sun Apr 28

6

Mon Apr 29 Exam 2

Tue Apr 30
Wed May 01 Normal Distributions

Sections 9.0 - 9.1

Slides: Ch9.1

Posit: act_14

Canvas: act_14

Canvas: RC_14

Thu May 02
Fri May 03 Sampling Distributions

Sections 9.2 - 9.3

Slides: Ch9.2-9.3

Posit: act_15

Canvas: act_15

Canvas: RC_15

Sun May 05

7

Mon May 06 Sampling Distributions

Sections 9.4 - 9.7

Slides: Ch9.4+

Posit: act_16

Canvas: act_16

Canvas: RC_16

Tue May 07
Wed May 08 Confidence Intervals

Chapter 10

Slides: Ch10a

Posit: act_17

Canvas: RC_17

Thu May 09
Fri May 10 Confidence Intervals

Slides: Ch10b

Posit: act_17 (cont’d)

Canvas: act_17

Sun May 12

8

Mon May 13 P-values

Chapter 11

Slides: Ch11

Posit: act_18

Canvas: act_18

Canvas: RC_18

Tue May 14
Wed May 15 Hypothesis Testing I

Chapter 12

Slides: Ch12a

Posit: act_19

Canvas: act_19

Canvas: RC_19

Thu May 16
Fri May 17 Hypothesis Testing II

Slides: Ch12b

Posit: act_20

Sun May 19

9

Mon May 20 Hypothesis Testing III

Posit: act_20 (cont’d)

Canvas: act_20

Tue May 21
Wed May 22 Project Overview

Thu May 23
Fri May 24 Exam 3

Sun May 26

10

Mon May 27 Memorial Day - No Class

Tue May 28
Wed May 29 Reading Period - No Class

Remote OH on Zoom

Thu May 30
Fri May 31 Reading Period - No Class

Remote OH on Zoom

Sun Jun 02
Sun Jun 02 Final project due Sunday 11:59pm

Mon Jun 03

11

Wed Jun 05 Optional Final Exam: 12pm central time

Remote on Zoom

Thu Jun 06