The calendar below provides information on the course's lecture (L) and recitation (R) sessions.
Course calendar.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
KEY DATES |
| L1 |
Introduction to Course |
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| L2 |
What is an Argument? |
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| L3 |
Measurement |
Homework 1 out |
| R1 |
Recitation 1 |
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| L4 |
Research Design |
Homework 1 due |
| L5 |
Frequency Distributions, Histograms, Stemplots, Boxplots, Measures of Dispersion |
Homework 2 out |
| R2 |
Lab 1 |
|
| L6 |
Introduction to Probability |
Homework 2 due |
| L7 |
The Normal and Binomial Distributions |
|
| R3 |
Recitation 3 |
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| L8 |
Sampling |
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| L9 |
Basics of Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance |
Homework 3 out |
| R4 |
Recitation 4 |
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| L10 |
Recap: CIs and Inference for Means |
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| L11 |
CIs and Inference for Proportions and Hypothesis Testing |
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 out |
| R5 |
Recitation 5 |
|
| L12 |
Testing the Difference Between Two Groups |
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| L13 |
Testing the Difference Between Two Groups (cont.) |
Homework 4 due |
| L14 |
Review for Mid-term |
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| L15 |
Mid-term Exam |
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| L16 |
Analyzing Categorical Data |
Final paper topic out |
| L17 |
Scatterplots and Correlation |
Homework 5 out |
| R6 |
Lab 2 |
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| L18 |
Introduction to Regression Analysis |
Homework 5 due |
| R7 |
Recitation 7 |
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| L19 |
Regression (cont.) |
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| L20 |
Multiple Regression |
Final paper topic due
Homework 6 out |
|
Paper Preparation |
|
| R8 |
Lab 3 |
|
| L21 |
Multiple Regression (cont.) |
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| L22 |
Spatial Data Analysis |
Homework 6 due |
| R9 |
Lab 4 |
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| L23 |
The Census |
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| L24 |
Quiz |
Quiz due |
| R10 |
Recitation 10 |
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| L25 |
Research Design and Regression Analysis |
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| L26 |
Wrap-up |
Final paper due |