# Course schedule

Math 214 meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 20:10. Monday is theory, Wednesday is computer lab with practice.

## Textbooks

We will be using the OpenIntro Statistics open textbook (free ebook; $25 at Amazon), and The Book of R ($40 ebook; \$50 on paper).

In the schedule below, we will abbreviate these as OIS for OpenIntro Statistics and BoR for The Book of R.

## Topic sequence

Week Lecture Date Topic Chapter Homework (OIS)
Descriptive Statistics
1 1 Aug 28 What is data? Where do we get it? OIS 1.1-5 Get the book
1 2 Aug 30 The RStudio platform BoR 1.1-4, 2.1-3, 4.1-3, Appendix B Make sure you can access RStudio
2W 3 Sep 6 Summarizing and describing data OIS 1.6-7, BoR 13.1-2 1.5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.17, 1.21, 1.25
3 4 Sep 11 Paired data: linear regression OIS 7.1-3 1.39, 1.42, 1.46, 1.47, 1.54
3 5 Sep 13 Data into R BoR 5.1-2, 8.2 Deadline for choosing a dataset
4M 6 Sep 18 Probability OIS 2.1 Play Guess the Correlation 10 times, report your top score. Also: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
5 7 Sep 25 Conditional probability OIS 2.2 2.4, 2.6, 2.9, 2.13, 2.14
5 8 Sep 27 Plotting BoR 7.1-4, 14.1-4, 25.1
6 9 Oct 2 Sampling, Random Variables OIS 2.3-5 2.15, 2.23, 2.25, 2.26
6 10 Oct 4 Simulation and randomness BoR 15.1-2, 16.1-2
7W 11 Oct 11 Types of random distributions OIS 3.1-5 2.30, 2.32, 2.38, 2.40, 2.44 First report draft deadline
8 12 Oct 16 Toward inference: variability, CIs OIS 4.1-2 3.3, 3.8, 3.18, 3.19, 3.26, 3.28, 3.44
Inferential Statistics
8 13 Oct 18 Last minute report help Just write your reports… First report deadline
9 14 Oct 23 Hypothesis testing OIS 4.3 4.1, 4.2, 4.12
9 15 Oct 25 Inference and variability in R BoR 17.1-2, 18.1
10 16 Oct 30 Other estimators, one-sample mean OIS 4.5, 5.1 4.13, 4.17, 4.18, 4.21, 4.25, 4.28, 4.30 Hypothesis registration deadline
10 17 Nov 1 t-test BoR 18.2
11 18 Nov 6 Paired & unpaired two-sample means OIS 5.2-3 4.44, 4.48, 5.3, 5.4, 5.12, 5.14
11 19 Nov 8 Linear Regression BoR 20.1-4
12 20 Nov 13 Many means: ANOVA & linear models OIS 5.5 5.15, 5.17, 5.18, 5.20, 5.22, 5.28, 5.30
12 21 Nov 15 ANOVA BoR 19.1-2
13 22 Nov 20 One- and two-sample proportions OIS 6.1-2
13 23 Nov 22 Proportions tests BoR 18.3
14 24 Nov 27 Paired data tests: Goodness of fit, independence of variables OIS 6.3-4, 7.4
14 25 Nov 29 Categorical tests BoR 18.4 Second report draft deadline due on Dec 1
15 26 Dec 4 Small sample proportions; randomization OIS 6.5-6
15 27 Dec 6 Last minute report help Just write your reports… Second report deadline due on Dec 8
16 28 Dec 11 No set topic
Dec 18 Final Exam

## Project 1

Pick a dataset from our collection, write a report describing the dataset comprehensively. Your report should contain appropriately chosen graphs, descriptions of observed descriptive statistics of the available variables in the data, and an evaluation of the experiment and sampling design in the data collection.

# Due dates

A draft of the first report is due October 11.

First report is due October 18.

As a support for formulating hypotheses, you will read an assigned co-students’ report and suggest ideas to them according to the report you read. These ideas are due October 25.

You then need to formulate your hypotheses and register them with me through Blackboard. Your hypotheses are due October 30.

A draft of your report for feedback, as with the first report, should be submitted November 29.

Your report is due through Blackboard timestamped no later than 14.30 on December 6.

## Project 2

Based on the report from Project 1, suggest a number of hypotheses for what the dataset could indicate. With the larger sample from the same source made available for Project 2, write a report evaluating your hypotheses and testing them. Report your inferential results both with confidence intervals and with significance levels.

## Final Examination

The final will be a computer lab session focusing on using and interpreting results from RStudio. There will be an opportunity in the final that allow you to raise your grade by up to two minor grade steps: for instance, raise from a B to a B+ or an A-.