Statistics 185

Spring 2022

Professor: Mark McClure

Handy Links

• Syllabus
• Course calendar
• The textbook: PDF | Homepage
• Discourse (our archived class forum)
• Webwork (our retired online HW)
• The Math Lab

Handouts

• Review for Exam I
• Review for Exam II
• Review for Exam III
• Normal Table
• t-Tables
• Final review

Tools

• A basic data explorer
• Normal tables
• Normal calculator
• t-calculators
• Mean and standard deviation for short lists

Demos

• Gerrymandering in NC

Class Notes

• Monday, January 10: Data Intro
• Wednesday, January 12: Getting data with studies and experiments
• Wednesday, January 19: A closer look at numerical data
• Monday, January 24: A closer look at categorical data
• Wednesday, January 26: Probability Theory
• Monday, February 7: Discrete Distributions
• Friday, February 11: Continuous Distributions - with a normal intro
• Monday, February 14: More on the normal distribution
• Monday, February 21: Sampling Distributions
• Friday, February 25: Confidence intervals for proportions
• Monday, March 14
  • NCAA Brackets
  • Kaggle Brackets
  • Championship Probabilties
• Wednesday, March 16: Winning Probability
• Friday, March 18: Hypothesis Testing
• Monday, March 28: The t-distribution
• Monday, April 4: Comparing data sets
• Monday, April 18: Linear models | Electoral vs Popular votes