Lectures: Stat 202 Fall 2016
From Sean_Carver
August 29, 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.
August 31, 2016
- 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.
September 1, 2016
- Today, we covered Kinds of variables and Distributions in The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics. We covered bar graphs, pie charts and stemplots for visualizing distributions. We touched on histograms (also for visualizing distributions) but have not covered them in detail.
- 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 1-15.
- 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 The Data Professor's Guide to Basic Statistics. 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.
