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* Homework:  [[Media:Stat202_2015S_HW11.pdf|''Homework 11 (Correlation)'']].  Due July 25, 2015.
 
* Homework:  [[Media:Stat202_2015S_HW11.pdf|''Homework 11 (Correlation)'']].  Due July 25, 2015.
  
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* Extra Credit Assignment.  Worth 10 points added to your homework score.  You must be present in class on Wednesday, July 20, to get the points, and you must both participate in the discussion in class and turn in (on Wednesday) a short written paragraph describing your experience.  Here is the assignment:  Pick a topic, suggestions are below.  See what data you can find on the web concerning this topic.  Use Google, and start with the key words "data" and your topic.  Are the data you find free or do they cost money?  Can you download the data set or do you need a computer program (or hand copy) to pull them off the web?  If you can download the data, can you load it into StatCrunch or do the data require "munging" to be used by StatCrunch?  What are the cases, and what are variables?  (If there are many variables, what are some of the ones that are of interest to you?)  Spend at least 45 minutes on this assignment.  If you finish with your first topic in less than 45 minutes, try another topic.  Suggested topics (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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* Extra Credit Assignment.  Due Wednesday, July 20.  Worth 10 points added to your homework score.  You must be present in class on Wednesday, July 20 to get the points, and you must both participate in the discussion in class and turn in (on Wednesday) a short written paragraph describing your experience.  Here is the assignment:  Pick a topic, suggestions are below.  See what data you can find on the web concerning this topic.  Use Google, and start with the key words "data" and your topic.  Are the data you find free or do they cost money?  Can you download the data set or do you need a computer program (or hand copy) to pull them off the web?  If you can download the data, can you load it into StatCrunch or do the data require "munging" to be used by StatCrunch?  What are the cases, and what are variables?  (If there are many variables, what are some of the ones that are of interest to you?)  Spend at least 45 minutes on this assignment.  If you finish with your first topic in less than 45 minutes, try another topic.  Suggested topics (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.
  
 
* Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 103-107.
 
* Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 103-107.

Revision as of 02:17, 19 July 2016

Some lectures below reference my class notes. Here is a link to a recent version of the entire class notes document: The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics. Following the same link in the future may bring you to a more recent version. The link will be as recent as I bother to update it.

Monday, June 27, 2016

  • Review assignment: Please review the material presented in class. We covered three and a half chapters (items 6-83, pages 13-27) in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics. These chapter's were Defining familiar terms, Let's collect some data!, Concepts of structured data, and part of Kinds of variables (up to item 83).
  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig, pages 1-3.
  • Homework: problems 1.14 and 1.16 on Homework 1. Due date will be assigned later (a week in advance). Update: due July 6, 2016.


Tuesday, June 28, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig, Section 1.2, pages 9-25.


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: No new reading from the text today, but please finish reading material from Monday and Tuesday.
  • Optional reading: Chapter 5 of Exploratory Data Analysis with R, by Roger D. Peng. This text is available from the publisher at http://www.leanpub.com/ The publisher asks for a donation. If you select $0.00 for your donation, you get the text for free.


Thursday, June 30, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 33-41.


Monday, July 4, 2016

  • No class: Independence Day!


Tuesday, July 5, 2016

  • Homework: Homework 6, I passed this homework out but no due date is assigned yet. Update: due July 13, 2016.
  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 42-67.


Wednesday, July 6, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 67-72.


Thursday, July 7, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 231-249.


Monday, July 11, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 252-261.


Tuesday, July 12, 2016

  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 263-274.


Wednesday, July 13, 2016

  • Remember: Our exam tomorrow is in Anderson B-11 between 10 AM and Noon.


Thursday, July 14, 2016

  • Midterm Exam


Monday, July 18, 2016

  • Extra Credit Assignment. Due Wednesday, July 20. Worth 10 points added to your homework score. You must be present in class on Wednesday, July 20 to get the points, and you must both participate in the discussion in class and turn in (on Wednesday) a short written paragraph describing your experience. Here is the assignment: Pick a topic, suggestions are below. See what data you can find on the web concerning this topic. Use Google, and start with the key words "data" and your topic. Are the data you find free or do they cost money? Can you download the data set or do you need a computer program (or hand copy) to pull them off the web? If you can download the data, can you load it into StatCrunch or do the data require "munging" to be used by StatCrunch? What are the cases, and what are variables? (If there are many variables, what are some of the ones that are of interest to you?) Spend at least 45 minutes on this assignment. If you finish with your first topic in less than 45 minutes, try another topic. Suggested topics (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.
  • Reading: Moore, McCabe & Craig: Pages 103-107.
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