Statistics 185
Spring 2021
Professor: Mark McClure
Handy Links
- Syllabus
- Course calendar
- The textbook: PDF | Homepage
- Stat Talk (our class forum)
- MyOpenMath (our online HW)
- Colab (our computational tool)
- The Math Lab
- In class problem sheets
- Info on the midterm
Computational visualizations
Class Notes
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Friday, January 22 - Data Intro:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, January 25.
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Monday, January 25 - Numeric Data:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Wednesday, January 27, as well as a Forum assignment on Stat Talk that we'll work on in class.
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Wednesday, January 27 - First computer lab:
- Colab Link
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Homework
After we go through the computer lab, we'll work on a forum assignment in class.
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Friday, January 29 - Getting Data:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, February 1.
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Monday, February 1 - Categorical Data:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Wednesday, February 3 and a forum question using Colab.
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Wednesday, February 3 - Probability Theory:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, February 8.
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Friday, February 5 - Discrete Distributions:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Tuesday, February 9.
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Monday, February 8 - Continuous Distributions:
- Presentation
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Homework and Quiz Prep
There's a practice quiz on MyOpenMath that's due by Tuesday, February 9 and includes one problem on this material.
- Wednesday, February 10 - Quiz!
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Friday, February 12 - The Normal Distribution:
- Presentation
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Homework
I think we'll hold off on HW for now.
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Monday, February 15 - More Normal:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Wednesday, February 17.
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Wednesday, February 17 - Confidence intervals for means:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Thurday, February 18. There's also a forum assignment that we'll work on together in class.
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Friday, February 19 - Confidence intervals for proportions:
- Presentation
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Homework
There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Monday, February 22.
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Week of Monday, February 22 - Friday, February 26
We're spending this week getting ready for the exam next week. More specifcally, the week will look like so:
- Monday: You'll go over this practice quiz.
- Wednesday: You'll take an online quiz based on the above problem sheet.
- Friday: I'll answer questions over This practice midterm.
- Friday, February 26 - Solutions to the practice midterm