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 tools and visualizations

• Normal Models
• Normal tables
• Basic calculator for numerical data (like mean and standard deviation)
• Normal calculator
• A calculator for t-distributions

Class Notes

• Friday, January 22 - Data Intro:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, January 25.
• Monday, January 25 - Numeric Data:
  • Presentation
  • 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.
• Wednesday, January 27 - First computer lab:
  • Colab Link
  • Homework
    After we go through the computer lab, we'll work on a forum assignment in class.
• Friday, January 29 - Getting Data:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, February 1.
• Monday, February 1 - Categorical Data:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Wednesday, February 3 and a forum question using Colab.
• Wednesday, February 3 - Probability Theory:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Monday, February 8.
• Friday, February 5 - Discrete Distributions:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a My Open Math assignment over this material due by Tuesday, February 9.
• Monday, February 8 - Continuous Distributions:
  • Presentation
  • 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!
• Friday, February 12 - The Normal Distribution:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    I think we'll hold off on HW for now.
• Monday, February 15 - More Normal:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Wednesday, February 17.
• Wednesday, February 17 - Confidence intervals for means:
  • Presentation
  • 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.
• Friday, February 19 - Confidence intervals for proportions:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Monday, February 22.
• 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
• Monday, March 15 - Hypothesis tests:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a MyOPenMath HW over this material due on Wednesday, March 17.
• Wednesday, March 17:
  We'll work together on a problem sheet today.
• Friday, March 19 - Log5 for sports analytics:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a 10 point forum problem over this material.
• Monday, March 22: No class today!
• Wednesday, March 24: Simulating tournaments
  • Kaggle's March madness competition for
    • Men and
    • Women
  • Championship computations
  • A forum assignment
• Monday, March 29 - The t-Distribution:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a 13 point MyOpenMath assignment over this material.
• Friday, April 2 - Comparing data sets:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a 14 point MyOpenMath assignment over this material.
• Monday, April 5 - Comparing election polls:
  • Presentation
• Friday, April 9 - Online Quiz Today!
• Monday, April 12 - Linear Models:
  • Presentation
  • Homework
    There is a 6 point MyOpenMath assignment and a 10 point Forum assignment over this material.