Statistics 185

Fall 2020

Professor: Mark McClure

Handy Links

Syllabus
The textbook: PDF | Homepage
Stat Talk (our class forum)
MyOpenMath (our online HW)
Colab (our computational tool)
The Math Lab

Handouts

Demos

Class Notes

Monday, 8/10 - Introduction:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a 13 point, online My Open Math homework assignment over this material due this Thursday, August 13. Note that all such assignments will be due at 11:59 PM.
Wednesday, 8/12 - Examining numerical data:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is an 11 point, online My Open Math homework assignment over this material due this Thursday, August 13.
  
  There's also a related forum assignment.
Friday, 8/14 - Software:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a computer lab and a 10 point forum assignment based on what you learn in the lab.
Monday, 8/17 - Categorical data:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Wednesday.
  
  There is a 10 point forum assignment that you'll need to complete using Colab.
Wednesday, 8/19 - Probability theory:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Monday, August 24.
Friday, August 21:
- Quiz?
  I expect there will be a quiz this day, which will basically be a times MyOpenMath assignment with two questions:
  - Compute mean and standard deviation from a short list of data points, and
  - Compute proportions from a contingency table.
  Check the forum on Thursday for sample problems.
Monday, 8/24 - Discrete Distributions:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Thursday, August 27.
Wednesday, 8/26 - Continuous Distributions:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Monday, August 31.
Monday, 8/30 - More Normal:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Thursday, September 3.
Wednesday, 9/9 - Sampling distributions:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Friday, September 11.
Monday, 9/14 - Sample proportions:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Thursday, September 17.
Wednesday, 9/16 - Hypothesis Testing:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment due on Monday, September 21.
Monday, 9/21 - Review:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a one point, nine problem MyOpenMath assignment due on Thursday, September 24. Its main objective is to get you ready for the problems.
Wednesday, September 23

Today, I'll show you my approach to our practice midterm quiz problems on MyOpenMath. The computations are all simple arithmetic, combined with normal distribution references to our Normal calculator page.

There are lots of tools that you can use for this but you do need to make sure that you're working at sufficient precision. I'll use this Colab notebook to show you how to get that precision.
Monday, 10/5 - The t-Distribution:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a 15 point MyOpenMath assignment due on Sunday, October 11. We will learn more computational tools to help with this on Wednesday.
Monday, 10/12 - Comparing proportions in elections:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a forum question over this material.
Monday, 10/19 - Comparing more general data sets:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  There is a MyOpenMath assignment over this material due next Sunday evening. There will also be a forum project on Wednesday over this material.
Monday, 10/26 - The Election:
- Presentation
- Homework
  
  We will have a quiz this week and there is a sample practice quiz posted to MyOpenMath. Also, I extended the HW due last night until tonight.
Wednesday 10/28 - Quiz practice

You've got a quiz that you'll take on Friday morning. Today, we're going to go over the practice quiz, using this COLAB notebook.
Monday, November 2 - Linear Models
- Presentation
- Electoral and Popular Correlation
- Check this forum question
Monday, November 2 - The Chi-Square Test
- Presentation