| WEEK | TOPICS & READING |
| 8/31-9/4 |
| Administrivia. Distributions and their graphic repsresentation. Measures of center and spread. |
| Reading: 1, 2 |
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| 9/7-9/11 |
| Organizing a statistical problem. Density curves. Normal distribution and z-scores. |
| Reading: 2, 3 |
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| 9/14-9/18 |
| Scatterplots and correlation. Regression. |
| Reading: 4, 5 |
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| 9/21-9/25 |
| Spreadsheets. Residuals. Lurking variables. Two-way tables. Marginal and conditional distributions. |
| Reading: 5, 6 |
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| 9/28-10/2 |
| Sampling strategies. Bias. |
| Reading: 7, 8 |
| No class on 9/29 |
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| 10/5-10/9 |
| Experiment design. Midterm review. |
| Reading: 7, 9 |
| 10/8 Midterm I |
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| 10/12-10/16 |
| Probability. Conditional probability and independence. |
| Reading: 10, 12 |
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| 10/19-10/23 |
| Sampling distributions. Sampling distribution of sample mean. Confidence interval for the mean. |
| Reading: 11, 14 |
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| 10/26-10/30 |
| Hypothesis testing. Testing for population mean. |
| Reading: 14, 15 |
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| 11/2-11/6 |
| Inference about population mean. T-test. |
| Reading: 15, 17 |
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| 11/9-11/13 |
| T-test. Midterm review. |
| Reading: 16, 17 |
| 11/12 Midterm II |
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| 11/16-11/20 |
| Two-sample problems. Two-sample t-procedure. Population proportion. |
| Reading: 18, 19 |
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| 11/23-11/27 |
| Hypothesis testing for population proportion. |
| Reading: 19 |
| Turkey or equivalent on 11/25 (not supplied by SBS) |
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| 11/30-12/4 |
| Comparing two proportions. Chi-square test. |
| Reading: 20, 22 |
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| 12/7-12/11 |
| Final review. |
| Reading: 7, 16, 21, and everything else |
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| 12/18 |
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