Statistics 185

Summer 2019

Professor: Mark McClure

Handy Links

• Syllabus
• Course calendar
• The textbook
• Our StatTalk Forum
• Edfinity (our online HW site)

Outline

• Intro
• Studies and Experiments
• Examining numerical data
• Examining categorical data
• Probability Theory
• Random variables and distributions
• Normal models
• Sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Inference for categorical data
• The t-distribution
• Comparing data sets
• Linear Models
• Regression
• The \(\chi^2\)-Test
• A summary of statistical tests

Demos

• Scraping our class data

Handouts

• Computer lab 1
• Probability tables
• Final review