| WEEK | TOPICS & READING |
| 1/25-1/29 |
| Administrivia. Distributions and their graphic repsresentation. Measures of center and spread. |
| Reading: 1, 2 |
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| 2/1-2/5 |
| Organizing a statistical problem. Density curves. Normal distribution and z-scores. |
| Reading: 2, 3 |
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| 2/8-2/12 |
| Scatterplots and correlation. Regression. |
| Reading: 4, 5 |
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| 2/15-2/19 |
| Spreadsheets. Lurking variables. Two-way tables. Marginal and conditional distributions. |
| Reading: 5, 6 |
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| 2/22-2/26 |
| Sampling strategies. Bias. Experiment design. |
| Reading: 8, 9 |
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| 3/1-3/5 |
| Midterm review. |
| Reading: 7 |
| 3/3: Midterm I, sec. 1 |
| 3/4: Midterm I, sec. 2 |
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| 3/8-3/12 |
| Probability. Conditional probability and independence. |
| Reading: 10, 12 |
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| 3/15-3/19 |
| Sampling distributions. Sampling distribution of sample mean. Confidence interval for the mean. |
| Reading: 11, 14 |
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| 3/22-3/26 |
| Hypothesis testing. Testing for population mean. |
| Reading: 14, 15 |
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| 3/29-4/2 |
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| 4/5-5/9 |
| Inference about population mean. T-test. |
| Reading: 15, 17 |
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| 4/12-4/16 |
| T-test. Midterm review. |
| Reading: 17, 16 |
| 4/14: Midterm II, sec. 1 |
| 4/15: Midterm II, sec. 2 |
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| 4/19-4/23 |
| Two-sample problems. Two-sample t-procedure. Population proportion. |
| Reading: 18, 19 |
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| 4/26-4/30 |
| Hypothesis testing for population proportion. Comparing two proportions. |
| Reading: 19, 20 |
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| 5/3-5/7 |
| Chi-square test. Final review. |
| Reading: 7, 16, 21, 22 |
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| 5/11-5/18 |
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