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Syllabus

Welcome to the course website for SST 115, Introduction to Statistics. To begin, you can find the course syllabus linked below:

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Please note: material will not be posted until we’ve reached that point in the course.

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Course Materials

Exam #1 Content

Week 1 (Intro)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Fri 8/30 Syllabus - -

Assignments and Deadlines: None

Week 2 (R / Data Visualization)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/02 Introduction In-class IMS Sections 1.2.1-1.2.3
Wed 9/04 Intro to R Intro R Lab -
Fri 9/06 Data Visualization Intro R cont’d -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Install R (https://cran.r-project.org/)
  2. Install RStudio (https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/)
  3. Intro R Lab due Wednesday 9/11 at 10pm. I only want to see the 3 questions from the lab in your submission file, not the entire text of the tutorial lab.

Note: Homework/Labs should be neatly formatted with questions specified as headers and with your R code and written solutions underneath. Here is an example of how it should look (courtesy of Professor Nolte)

Week 3 (Data Visualization)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/09 Data Visualization Part 2 Data Viz and Template -
Wed 9/11 - ggplot lab -
Fri 9/13 - ggplot lab -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Intro R Lab due Wednesday 9/11 at 10pm.
  2. Data Viz Lab due Wednesday 9/11 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 1 is assigned Monday 9/09 and will be due the following Monday 9/16 at 10pm. The R markdown file for writing your answers can be found here
  4. ggplot lab due Monday 9/16 at 10pm.

Week 4 (Describing Data / Study Design)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/16 Numerical Summaries - IMS Sections 5.2, 5.4, and 5.6
Wed 9/18 Tables Tables Lab -
Fri 9/20 Study Design Design Lab IMS Chapter 2 (pgs. 28-37)

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Homework 1 due Monday 9/16 at 10pm.
  2. ggplot lab due Monday 9/16 at 10pm.
  3. Tables Lab due Friday 9/20 at 10pm.
  4. Design Lab due Monday 9/23 at 10pm.
  5. Homework 2 due Friday 9/27 at 10pm.

Week 5 (Correlation and Regression)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/23 Correlation Design Lab -
Wed 9/25 Linear Regression Regression Lab -
Fri 9/27 Regression (Cat. Predictor) Regression Lab -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Design Lab due Monday 9/23 at 10pm.
  2. Homework 2 due Friday 9/27 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 3 due Friday 10/04 at 10pm. (I recommend starting this early and finishing it before the exam on Wednesday as it is very good practice)

Week 6 (Exam)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 9/30 Review - -
Wed 10/02 Exam - -
Fri 10/04 dplyr dplyr Lab -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Regression Lab due Monday 9/30 at 10pm.
  2. Homework 3 due Monday 10/07 at 10pm.
  3. dplyr Lab due Monday 10/07 at 10pm.

Exam #2 Content

Week 7 (Probability and Sampling)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 10/07 Probability Probability Lab -
Wed 10/09 Odds and Risk [Probability Lab Cont’d] -
Fri 10/11 Sampling Distributions - -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Exam 1 Corrections due Friday 10/11 at 10pm.
  2. Probability Lab due Friday 10/11 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 4 due Friday 10/18 at 10pm.

Week 8 (Normal Distribution and Intervals)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 10/14 Normal Distribution CI Lab 1 -
Wed 10/16 Confidence Intervals for Pop. Mean [CI Lab 1 cont’d] -
Fri 10/18 More on CIs CI Lab 2 CI for Means – Quick Guide

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Homework 4 – due Friday 10/18 at 10pm.
  2. CI Lab 1 due Friday 10/18 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 5 – due Friday 11/01 after break at 10pm

Week 9 (Confidence Intervals)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 10/28 CI for Diff. in Means CI Lab 2 cont’d IMS Section 19.2.1-19.2.5 (pg. 325-333), 20.4 (pg. 351-352)
Wed 10/30 CIs for Proportions CI Lab 2 cont’d IMS 16.2.1-16.2.4 (pg. 261-264), 17.3.1-17.3.2 (pg. 285-288), [CI for Proportions - Quick Guide]
Fri 11/01 Elections and Polling Stuff - EXTRA: [PRC Info about elections] and [Tied Polls]

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Homework 5 due Friday 11/01 at 10pm.
  2. CI Lab 2 due Friday 11/01 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 6 due Friday 11/08 at 10pm.
  4. Exam 2 will be on Wednesday 11/13 during normal class time.

Week 10 (Bootstrap and Hypothesis Testing)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 11/04 Bootstrapping Bootstrapping Lab IMS Chapter 12 (pg. 197-207)
Wed 11/06 - - -
Fri 11/07 HW Day + Review - -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Bootstrapping Lab due Friday 11/08 at 10pm.
  2. Homework 6 due Friday 11/08 at 10pm.

Week 11 (Exam 2)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 11/11 Review Day [Practice Exam] -
Wed 11/13 Exam Day - -
Fri 11/15 Project How to Lie with Stats Lab How to Lie with Stats Book Chapter 5 – “The Gee-Whiz Graph” (pg. 60-65) Typed Copy

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Final Project Info
  2. How to Lie with Stats Lab due Monday 11/18 at 10pm.
  3. Homework 7 - Course Feedback due Friday 11/22 at 10pm.
  4. Read HTLWS Chapter 5 – “The Gee-Whiz Graph” (pg. 60-65)

Exam #3 Content

Week 12 (Hypothesis Testing)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 11/18 Hypothesis Testing 1 Testing Worksheet (PDF) Webpage Format -
Wed 11/20 HT - P-values and Test-stats Testing Worksheet 2 (PDF) Webpage Format -
Fri 11/22 HT - Props and Means Testing Worksheet 3 (PDF) Webpage Format -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Final Project Info groups due Wednesday 11/20 at 10pm.
  2. Testing Worksheet (PDF) scanned and uploaded to Gradescope by Wednesday 11/20 at 10pm.
  3. Testing Worksheet 2 (PDF) scanned and uploaded to Gradescope by Friday 11/22 at 10pm.
  4. Homework 7 - Course Feedback due Friday 11/22 at 10pm.
  5. Testing Worksheet 3 will also serve as HW 8 due Friday 11/29 at 10pm.
  6. Exam corrections due Monday 12/2 at 10pm.

Week 13 (Hypothesis Testing)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 11/25 HT - Decision Making Testing Worksheet 4 (PDF) Webpage Format ASA Statement on P-values
Wed 11/27 Project Workday Worksheets cont’d -
Fri 11/29 Break (No Class) - -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Final Project Info project proposals due Friday 11/29 at 10pm (Gradescope link will be posted, please also include group member names).
  2. Testing Worksheet 3 will also serve as HW 8 due Friday 11/29 at 10pm.
  3. Testing Worksheet 4 (PDF) due Sunday 12/01 at 10pm.
  4. Exam corrections due Monday 12/2 at 10pm.

Mentor Evaluations

Week 14 (Hypothesis Testing)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 12/02 HT - More on Differences Testing Lab -
Wed 12/04 \(\chi^2\) Tests (Goodness of Fit) Testing Lab cont’d -
Fri 12/06 \(\chi^2\) Tests (Independence) Testing Lab cont’d -

Assignments and Deadlines

  1. Testing Lab due Monday 12/9 at 10pm.
  2. Final Project Info exploratory analysis due Monday 12/9 at 10pm
  3. ‘Final’ exam is Friday 12/13 during normal class time.

Week 15 (Review)

Date Lecture Lab Reading
Mon 12/09 Methods Review Review Worksheet and Webpage Version -
Wed 12/11 Exam Review [Practice – To be Posted] and [Topics] -
Fri 12/13 Exam 3 - -

Course Evaluations

Project Writeup Example courtesy of Professor Nolte.

Exam 1 Info

Exam 1 will be in-class Wednesday Oct 2.

[Exam 1 Topics Outline]

[Practice Exam 1]

Exam 2 Info

Exam 2 will be in-class Wednesday 11/13.

[Exam 2 Topics Outline]

Practice Exam