Difference between revisions of "Lectures: Stat 202 Fall 2016"

Revision as of 19:44, 1 September 2016

Today, we had an introductory discussion and greetings, then discussed our syllabus.
Reading: Please read about the optional extra credit opportunities in our syllabus.
Reading: Please read the first few chapters of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics, which is linked here and also passed out during class.
Next class: we will discuss the projects and cover the first 5 chapters of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics, but we will probably not cover all 5 chapters on Wednesday.

Today, we started class by discussing projects, then we continued with the following chapters from The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics: Defining familiar terms, Let's collect some data!, Concepts of Structured Data. I gave a brief introduction to the next chapter Kinds of variables, but did not cover it yet.
Reading: Please read Kinds of variables in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.
Next class: We will cover the next 3 chapters in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics, including two additional chapters which I will hand out in class. These chapters will also include homework.

Today we covered Kinds of variables and Distributions in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 * Reading: Please read ''Kinds of variables'' in [[Media:The_Data_Professors_Guide_to_Basic_Statistics.pdf|The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics]].
 * Next class: We will cover the next 3 chapters in [[Media:The_Data_Professors_Guide_to_Basic_Statistics.pdf|The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics]], including two additional chapters which I will hand out in class.  These chapters will also include homework.
+== September 1, 2016 ==
+* Today we covered ''Kinds of variables'' and ''Distributions'' in [[Media:The_Data_Professors_Guide_to_Basic_Statistics.pdf|The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics]].