Schedule

1 Lectures

Please check often. Subject to change. New material is added approximately on a weekly basis.

Chapters refer to the assigned textbook (3rd edition). Corresponding chapters exist in the 2nd edition but may have a different number.

Week Dates Topic Recommended Readings
1 9/3 1.1 Statistics & Samples Ch. 1
2 9/8 1.2 Statistics & Samples Ch.1, Interleaf 1: Correlation does not require causation
2 9/10 1.3 Statistics & Samples Ch.1, Interleaf 1: Correlation does not require causation
3 9/15 1.4 Statistics & Samples Interleaf 6: Controls in medical studies
2.1 Displaying & Describing Data Ch.2-3
3 9/17 2.2 Displaying & Describing Data (center) Ch.2-3
4 9/22 2.3 Displaying & Describing Data (spread) Ch.2-3
4 9/24 2.4 Displaying & Describing Data (plots) Ch. 2-3
5 9/29 2.5 Displaying & Describing Data (plots) Ch. 2-3
5 10/1 3.1 Probability Ch.5
6 10/6 3.2 Probability Ch.5
6 10/8 3.3 Probability Ch. 5
10/13 No classes (Fall Break!)
7 10/20 4.1 Estimation & Hypothesis Testing Ch. 4
7 10/22 4.2 Estimation & Hypothesis Testing Ch.4-6
8 10/27 4.3 Estimation & Hypothesis Testing Ch.4-6
8 10/30
9 11/3
9 11/5
10 11/10
10 11/12
11 11/17
11 11/19
12 11/24
12 11/26 No in-person class (recorded lecture posted on Moodle)
13 12/1
13 12/3
14 12/8 Wrap-up, Review
14 12/10 Review, Course Evals

2 Labs

Week Date Topic Prep
1 2/9 Course Logistics
1 2/9 Rstudio/R introduction DC1 Introduction to R
2 9/9 Data Types DC Introduction to R
3 9/16 Data Stuctures DC Introduction to Importing Data With R
4 9/23 Describing Data: Summary Statistics and Plots DC Data Manipulation with dplyr
DC Introduction to the Tidyverse (Grouping and Summarizing; Data Wrangling; Data Visualization; Types of visualizations)
5 9/30 R markdown, Tidyverse, and Exploratory Data Analysis DC Reporting with Rmarkdown (Getting Started; Adding Analyses and Visualizations)
6 10/7 Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2
10/14 No lab (fall break!)
7 10/21
10/28 No lab (in class Midterm)
8 11/4
9 11/10
10 11/18
11 11/25
12 12/2
13 12/9 Wrap-up

3 Problem sets

Problem set Topic Due Date Difficulty Type
1 Fri 10/3 Easy/Medium Formative
2 Wed 10/22 Medium/Hard Formative
3 Fri 11/7 Medium/Hard Formative
4 T 11/25 Medium/Hard Formative
5 W 12/10 Medium/Hard Formative

4 Coding Assignments

Coding Assignment Topics Due Date Difficulty Type
1 TBD Fri 10/31 Hard Summative
2 TBD Fri 12/05 Hard Summative

5 Midterms

Assessment Topics When/Where Difficulty Type
Midterm 1 Week 1-7 10/28, during lab Hard Summative
Midterm 2 Weeks 1-14 Finals week, scheduled (TBD) Hard Summative

6 Office Hours

Please attend OH at least 2x during the semester (the more the merrier).

Who When2 Where
Professor drop-in hours Monday 2-3:30pm Park 211
Professor drop-in hours Wednesday 2-3:30pm Park 211
Professor drop-in hours Thursday 2-3:30pm Zoom3
TA Thursday 4-6pm Park 227

If you can’t attend any of the times above you can schedule an appointment with me using my calendly link.

Footnotes

  1. DataCamp↩︎

  2. Note: no drop-in hours on 09/08; 10/13 and 10/15 (Fall break); 12/01↩︎

  3. Please email if planning to attend. If I am also available in person, I will send an announcement.↩︎