Course Outline
| Theme | Reading | ActivStats | Key Concept |
| Experimental
Design
(3 sessions) |
10.1-10.3 |
Chapter 11 |
Difference between Obs. and Controlled Studies |
| Summarizing Data
-- graphics
(1) |
chpts 1.2-1.5 | Chpts. 2 and 3 | Variation of a variable |
| Summarizing Data
-numeric
(1) |
2.1-2.3,2.6-2.7 | Chapts. 4 | Exploratory analysis |
| Two-variable
relation summaries and correlation
(1) |
p.114-119, 121-127 (weak) | 7.2,8.1(esp.
"cor. and rltnshp strength"),
8.2,8.3 |
z-scores, types of relationships |
| Intro to Regression
(2) |
3.1,3.5
(book is weak) |
9.3 (maybe 9.4) | How to create and interpret LS regression lines |
| Empirical Expected
Values and Simulations
(1.5) |
4.1-4.2, 4.3? | What is an expected
value?
5-step Model Why "empirical"? |
|
| Basic Concepts
of Theoretical Probability
(1) |
5.5, 5.6 | 13.1 | Definitions, (what is probability?), equally likely outcomes, combining events |
| Theoretical Probability:
multiple events
(1) |
14.1,5.9 &
14.3 |
13.2,14 | Conditional prob., independence, mutually exclusive events |
| Empirical Probability
(1) |
5.1-5.4 | 13.2 | Compare empirical probabilities with what you think of as probability. |
| Bayes Theorem
and sampling without replacement
(1) |
5.7 | know how and when to use Bayes Theorem | |
| Intro to Hypothesis
Testing
(1) |
6.1-6.3 | 19.1 | Sample vs. Population |
| Empirical Chi-square testing (1) | 7.1-7.4 | ||
| The Probability
Model
(.5) |
see handouts | 15 | Random variables continuous and discrete |
| Discrete Distributions
(1.5) |
8.1-8.3, 14.2 | Binomial, uniform,
poisson, hypergeometric Counting. |
|
| Continuous Distributions
(2) |
8.4-8.9 | Uniform, Normal,
applications of normal
Chi-Square |
|
| Theoretical Expectations and Variance (1) | 14.4 | 15.1 | How to calculate,
\short-cuts |
| Measurements
(1) |
9.1-9.6 | 2.2 | measurement error, bias, |
| Intro to Inference
(1) |
10.4 | 15.2 | Parameters, Statistics, Standard error |
| Confidence Intervals
(2) |
11.1-11.3 | 17 | |
| CLT
(1) |
11.4 | 16.2 | |
| CI for population mean, proportion(1) | 11.5-11.6 | ||
| Other CIs | 11.7 | ||