| 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 |
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