Statistics 225

Spring 2024

Professor: Mark McClure

Handy Links

• Syllabus
• Course calendar
• MyOpenMath (our online HW)

Tools

• Normal tables:
  • Interactive
  • PDF
• Normal calculator
• Colab - an online computing environment

Class Notes

• Tues, February 13: Transitionary Intro
• Thur, February 22: The normal distribution
• Tues, February 27: Confidence Intervals
• Thur, February 29: Intro Lab
• Tues, March 19:
  • NCAA Brackets
  • Linear regression for sports analytics: [ Colab notebook | HTML]
  • Massey rating: [ Colab notebook | HTML]
  • Logistic regression for prediction: [ Colab notebook | HTML ]
  • Simulation
• Thurs, March 21: NCAA Tournament Lab
• Tues, March 26: Hypothesis testing - Python computations on Colab
• Thursday, March 28: Small sample sizes - Python computations on Colab
• Tuesday, April 30:
  • Practical regression
  • Variable selection
• Tues, May 7: Final regression lab
  • Description and online scoring tool
  • Colab notebook

Review materials

• Review problems for our quiz
• Review problems for our exam