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

Revision as of 23:29, 1 September 2016

Today, we had an introductory discussion and greetings, then discussed our syllabus, and finally covered the first two chapters of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.
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: I plan to discuss the projects and cover the next several chapters of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.

Today, we discussed projects and reviewed the material from August 29, and covered Concepts of structured data, Kinds of variables, and started Distributions in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.
Reading: I passed out two more chapters of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics: Distributions, and Exploratory data analysis. Please read these sections.
Next class: I plan to review what we did today, assign some homework, and cover the sections of The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics that I passed out but haven't covered.

Today, after a review, we covered bar graphs, pie charts and stemplots, and histograms for visualizing distributions.
Homework: I passed out and we worked on Homework 1, due September 8, 2016.
Homework: I passed out and we worked on Homework 2, due September 8, 2016.
Homework: I passed out but did not yet assign Homework 3. Due date to be added later.
Reading: Moore, McCabe, Craig, pp 1-25.
Next class: We will cover Exploratory data analysis from The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics. Homework 3 will be assigned, but instead of working on the histogram homework in class we will do a laboratory exercise on a diamonds data set. Finally, if there is time, we will proceed to talk about summary statistics (mean, median, quartiles, percentiles, 5 number summary, standard deviation) and the box plot and modified box plot.

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 * Homework: I passed out but did not yet assign [[Media:Stat202_2015S_HW3.pdf|Homework 3]].  Due date to be added later.
 * Reading: Moore, McCabe, Craig, pp 1-25.
-* Next class:  We will review the concept of a distribution and its relationship to the kinds of graphs we are creating.  We will talk in detail about histograms while considering the call center data set.  We will cover ''Exploratory data analysis'' from [[Media:The_Data_Professors_Guide_to_Basic_Statistics.pdf|The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics]].  [[Media:Stat202_2015S_HW3.pdf|Homework 3]] will be assigned, but instead of working on histogram homework in class we will do a laboratory exercise on a diamonds data set.  Finally, if there is time, we will proceed to talk about summary statistics (mean, median, quartiles, percentiles, 5 number summary, standard deviation) and the box plot and modified box plot.
+* Next class: We will cover ''Exploratory data analysis'' from [[Media:The_Data_Professors_Guide_to_Basic_Statistics.pdf|The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics]].  [[Media:Stat202_2015S_HW3.pdf|Homework 3]] will be assigned, but instead of working on the histogram homework in class we will do a laboratory exercise on a diamonds data set.  Finally, if there is time, we will proceed to talk about summary statistics (mean, median, quartiles, percentiles, 5 number summary, standard deviation) and the box plot and modified box plot.