Lectures: Stat 202 Summer 2016

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: the rest of Kinds of variables (items 84-100, pages 27-29) in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics.

• 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).

• Optional reading: front matter to The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics, pages 1-12. Many of these pages are blank, or mostly blank.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

• Review: Please review the new material presented in class. In The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics, Day 2, we covered the remaining part of Kinds of variables, and two new chapters: Distributions, and Exploratory data analysis, to page 34 and item 134.

• Homework: Homework 2 (stem plots). Please review, if finished. Due July 5, 2016, at end of class.

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

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

• Review: Please review the new material presented in class. You will find the first 10 pages of My Summer 2015 Lecture Notes, Week 1, Tuesday helpful, as those were the notes I used to make today's presentation to the class.

• Homework: Homework 1 (cases, variables, pie charts, bar graphs) is now officially assigned. Due July 6, 2016, at end of class.

• Homework: Homework 3 (histograms) is also assigned. Due July 6, 2016, at end of class.

• 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

• Review: Please review the new material presented in class. You will find pages 11-19 of My Summer 2015 Lecture Notes, Week 1, Tuesday and all of Week 1, Wednesday helpful.

• Homework: Homework 4 (box plots and transformations) is assigned. Due July 7, 2016, at end of class.

• Homework: We worked on the first two problems of Homework 5 (more box plots and transformations and other things) but this homework doesn't have a due date, yet.

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