MATH 141, Fall 2015
Instructor: Andrew Bray

Syllabus

My office hours: M/Tu 2-4, W 2 - 4
DoJo tutoring: Sun 5-7 PM, Wed 7-9 PM, Thurs 6-8 PM


Week Fourteen

Monday, Dec. 7

PRESENTATIONS

Wednesday, Dec 9

PRESENTATIONS


Week Thirteen

Monday, Nov. 30

  • Review Midterm II
  • Logistic Regression
  • PS12: link

Tuesday, Dec. 1

  • Lab

Wednesday, Dec. 2

  • Bayesian Modeling

Friday, Dec. 4

  • Simpson’s Paradox

Week Twelve

Monday, Nov. 23

Tuesday, Nov. 24

Wednesday, Nov 25

  • Turn-in Midterm II
  • Multilevel Models
  • Overconfidence

Week Eleven

Monday, Nov. 16

  • Class cancelled
  • PS 11: Chapter 6, numbers 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 and 11

Tuesday, Nov. 17

Wednesday, Nov. 18

Friday, Nov. 20

  • MLR

Week Ten

Monday, Nov. 9

  • Quiz Review
  • Simple Linear Regression IV (r code)
  • Revised proposals due Thursday night
  • Reading for Weds: none
  • PS10: link

Tuesday, Nov. 10

Wednesday, Nov. 11

  • Simple to Multiple Regression (r code)

Friday, Nov. 13

  • Regression Quiz
  • Multiple Regression

Week Nine

Monday, Nov. 2

  • Projects:
  • Simple Linear Regression I
  • Reading for Weds: p. 227 - 238
  • PS9: Chapter 5, numbers 1, 5, 6, 17, 21, 23, 30, 31, 33

Tuesday, Nov. 3

Wednesday, Nov. 4

  • Simple Linear Regression II (r code)

Friday, Nov. 6

  • Simple Linear Regression III
  • Quiz
  • Initial proposals due

Week Eight

Monday, Oct. 26

Tuesday, Oct. 27

Wednesday, Oct 28

  • Taxonomy of Data / Inference

Friday Oct. 30

  • Paired Data and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (r code)
  • Reading for next time: p. 219 - 227

Week Eight

FALL BREAK


Week Seven

Monday, Oct. 12

  • Testing Independence between two categorical variables (r code)
  • Lab 6 Solutions
  • Reading for next time: p. 163-176
  • PS7: Chapter Three, 37, 39, 42. Chapter Four: 5, 14, 30

Tuesday, Oct. 13

Wednesday, Oct 14

  • Inference for Means (r code)
  • Reading for next time: p. 176-184

Friday Oct. 16

  • Inference for Means II
  • Quiz

Week Six

Monday, Oct. 5

  • Midterm I Review
  • Inference for Categorical Data
  • Lab 5 Solutions
  • Reading for next time: p. [128-133]
  • PS6: Chapter Three, 1, 11, 12, 15, 20, 24, 28, 30, 35

Tuesday, Oct. 6

Wednesday, Oct 7

  • Inference for Categorical Data 2 (r code)

Friday Oct. 9


Week Five

Monday, Sep. 28

Wednesday, Sep. 30

  • Confidence Intervals

Friday Oct. 2

  • Midterm I: Ch. 1, 2, and probability appendix
  • Reading for next time: p. 123-128

Week Four

Monday, Sep. 21

Tuesday, Sep. 22

  • No Lab

Wednesday, Sep. 23

  • Hypothesis Tests
  • Data Analysis in R workshop this afternoon 4-5 pm in ETC 211.

Friday Sep. 25

  • Hypothesis Tests II: Simulation and the Binomial
  • Reading for next time: p. 81-102

Week Three

Monday, Sep. 14

Tuesday, Sep. 15

Wednesday, Sep. 16

  • Probability II: conditional probability

Friday Sep. 18

  • Probability III: random variables
  • Quiz 2

Week Two

[Monday, Sep. 7] No Class

Wednesday, Sep. 9

  • Describing Data
  • PS2: Chapter one, numbers 24, 26, 33, 36, 37, 40, 42, 47, 50. These will be collected Monday in class.

Friday Sep. 11

  • Ch. 1 Quiz

Week One

Monday, Aug. 31

Tuesday, Sep. 1

  • Lab 0 : Intro to R and RStudio

Wednesday, Sep. 2

  • Review reading group and lab submission procedures.
  • Descriptive vs inferential statistics
  • Principles of data collection

Friday, Sep. 4

  • Experimental design
  • PS1: Please work through problems 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22 in the exercises at the end of chapter one (the first one is labeled 1.1 on page 43). These will be collected at the beginning of class next Wednesday.