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<big> '''Basic Statistics (Stat 202) Fall 2018 (Sections 011, 023, 024)'''
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Fall 2018 Course Materials will go here.
  
'''Instructor:''' <big> Sean Carver, Ph.D., </big> Professorial Lecturer, American University.
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'''Materials:''' [[Objectives_2018F|''[Objectives]'']][[Old_Lectures:_Stat_202|''[Materials From Past]'']][[Homework:_Stat_202_Summer_2016|''[Exercises with Solutions]'']][[Data:_Stat_202|''[Data from 2017]'']][[Links:_Stat_202_Summer_2016|''[Links and Other Materials]'']]
  
'''Office Hours:'''  Students are strongly encouraged to come to office hours if they need or want help. My office hours are tentatively scheduled, as follows:
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We will stop using data from 2017 as soon as the textbook snafu is sorted out.
  
* Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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'''More Data Sets:'''
* Tuesday, Friday: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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* Small Diamonds Data Set (3000 diamonds sampled from full Diamonds Data Set): [[Media:diamonds3K.xlsx|diamonds3K]].
* No office hours during Thanksgiving or Labor Day Weekend (including Friday).
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* [http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/diamonds.html Codebook for full Diamonds Data Set.]
* My office is DMTI 208F.
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* Cars Miles Per Gallon Data Set: [[Media:mpg.xlsx|mpg]].
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* [http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/mpg.html Codebook for Cars Miles Per Gallon Data Set.]
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* Simulated Exam Scores: rounded N(70,10): [[Media:egexam.xlsx|egexam]].
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'''Homework 0:'''  Choose a topic from the list below.  Find data on that topic.  Try Google and Kaggle.Com.  If you can't find data on your topic, choose another topic.  Then answer the following questions:
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* What is your topic?
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* How did you find data?
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* What dead ends did you encounter?
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* Is the data structured or unstructured?
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* What are the cases?
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* What are some of the variables (there may be too many to list)?
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* Are the variables quantitative, ordinal categorical, nominal categorical, binary, or identifier?
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Suggested topics for data search: (actually, whatever interests you): sports (of various kinds, there are lots of free good data on baseball), entertainment, movies (again good data), law, criminology, government, city planning, architecture, weather, climate, geology, seismology, medicine, epidemiology, health, fitness, biology, evolution, extinction, ecology, math, computer science, statistics, data science, anthropology, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, sociology, culture, tourism, archeology, art, literature, writing, journalism, census, linguistics, finance, economics, business, astronomy, physics, chemistry, library sciences, theology, anything else you can think of.
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* Lecture Notes 2018-10-08.  I saw at least one typo.  [[Media:Stat_202_Note_2018_10_15.pdf|click here]].

Latest revision as of 11:44, 15 October 2018

Fall 2018 Course Materials will go here.

Materials: [Objectives][Materials From Past][Exercises with Solutions][Data from 2017][Links and Other Materials]

We will stop using data from 2017 as soon as the textbook snafu is sorted out.

More Data Sets:

Homework 0: Choose a topic from the list below. Find data on that topic. Try Google and Kaggle.Com. If you can't find data on your topic, choose another topic. Then answer the following questions:

  • What is your topic?
  • How did you find data?
  • What dead ends did you encounter?
  • Is the data structured or unstructured?
  • What are the cases?
  • What are some of the variables (there may be too many to list)?
  • Are the variables quantitative, ordinal categorical, nominal categorical, binary, or identifier?

Suggested topics for data search: (actually, whatever interests you): sports (of various kinds, there are lots of free good data on baseball), entertainment, movies (again good data), law, criminology, government, city planning, architecture, weather, climate, geology, seismology, medicine, epidemiology, health, fitness, biology, evolution, extinction, ecology, math, computer science, statistics, data science, anthropology, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, sociology, culture, tourism, archeology, art, literature, writing, journalism, census, linguistics, finance, economics, business, astronomy, physics, chemistry, library sciences, theology, anything else you can think of.

  • Lecture Notes 2018-10-08. I saw at least one typo. click here.