We will cover three different, but related, units in this one-semester course. These units roughly correspond to the first six parts of your textbook. The units are broken into the following subject areas:
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Office Hours
Held in SCI 136 on W F 10:20am-11:20am or virtually by appointment (see the syllabus for details).
Please understand that this calendar is subject to change depending on the discretion of your professor. Check back regularly for updates..
In the calendar below RCHW corresponds to reading comprehension homework assignments and PHW corresponds to project homework assignments.
| Week | Date | Unit | Topics | Reading and homework assignments and assessment items |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept 5 | 1 | Visualizing and summarizing data | Part 1: Ch 1-3 RCHW 1+2 |
| 2 | Sept 11 | 1 | Describing distributions with variability | Part 1: Ch 4-5 RCHW 3+4 |
| 3 | Sept 18 | 1 | Describing relationships between two numeric variables | Part 2: Ch 6 PHW 1 |
| 4 | Sept 25 | 1 | Unit 1 topics | Part 2: Ch 7, Ch 8.1-8.3 PHW 2 |
| 5 | Oct 2 | 1, 2 | Collecting data from experiments and observational studies | Quiz 1 Part 3: Ch 10-11 |
| 6 | Oct 9 | 2 | Collecting data from experiments and observational
studies From randomness to probability and the laws of probability |
Part 3: Ch 10-11 Part 4: Ch 12-13 RCHW 5+6 |
| 7 | Oct 16 | Fall Break | ||
| 8 | Oct 23 | 2 | From randomness to probability and the laws of probability | Part 4: Ch 14 PHW 3 RCHW 7 |
| 9 | Oct 30 | 2 | Random variables and probability models | Part 4: Ch 15.1, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5 RCHW 8, 9, 10 |
| 10 | Nov 6 | 2 | Unit 2 topics | Quiz 2 |
| 11 | Nov 13 | 3 | Sampling distributions and confidence intervals for a proportion and for a mean | Final project proposal Part 5: Ch 16-17 (except 17.4) RCHW 11+12 |
| 12 | Nov 20 | 3 | Hypothesis tests about a proportion or a mean | Part 5: Ch 18-19 PHW 4 |
| 13 | Nov 27 | 3 | Comparing grouped numeric data Comparing grouped categorical data |
Part 6: Ch 20-22 PHW 5 RCHW 13 |
| 14 | Dec 4 | 3 | Unit 3 topics | RCHW 14+15 Quiz 3 |
| 15 | Dec 11 | 3 | Ethical statistical practice | Final Project Presentations |
| Dec 20 | 1-3 | Final Exam |