| Schedule: | Swarthmore College - STAT 1, Statistical Thinking | ||||||
| (version of 10/21/2007) | Back to Stat 1 page | ||||||
| Week | Date | Text | |||||
| period | Chap. | ||||||
| 1 | 3-Sep | Mon | Did the New York Times get means and medians wrong? | ||||
| 5-Sep | Wed | Sources of Data | 1,2 | Quiz on Ch. 1, 2 | |||
| 7-Sep | Fri | Samples | Homework due Fridays | ||||
| 2 | 10-Sep | Mon | Margin of error and confidence intervals | 3,4 | Chapter quizzes on Mondays | ||
| 12-Sep | Wed | Sources of Error (more than just sampling error!) | |||||
| 14-Sep | Fri | Let's start looking ahead at statistical graphics. | HW 1 due | ||||
| 3 | 17-Sep | Mon | Experiments | 5,6 | |||
| 19-Sep | Wed | More experiments | |||||
| 21-Sep | Fri | This is a good day to talk about PowerPoint poster templates and sources of project ideas. | HW 2 due | ||||
| 4 | 24-Sep | Mon | Sick day - no class | 7,8 | |||
| 26-Sep | Wed | Statistical ethics: Tell the truth, don't harm subjects, respect confidentiality, admit doubts | |||||
| 28-Sep | Fri | More ethics | |||||
| 5 | 1-Oct | Mon | Measurement issues. Very small oil fields. | 9,10 | |||
| 3-Oct | Wed | Getting serious about graphics | |||||
| 5-Oct | Fri | Getting more serious about graphics | HW 3 due | ||||
| 6 | 8-Oct | Mon | Means, medians, quartiles, percentiles, containment intervals, trimmed means, IQR's, standard deviations | 11,12 | |||
| 10-Oct | Wed | More about numerical measures | |||||
| 12-Oct | Fri | More numerical measures | |||||
| Fall Break | |||||||
| 7 | 22-Oct | Mon | On being normal | 13 only | |||
| 24-Oct | Wed | Standardized scores. More on normal distributions. | Project topic meetings | ||||
| 26-Oct | Fri | Scatterplots and correlation | HW 4 due | ||||
| 8 | 29-Oct | Mon | Regression and relationships | 14,15 | |||
| 31-Oct | Wed | Economic statistics, measures of inflation | |||||
| 2-Nov | Fri | Tax statistics | 16 | ||||
| 9 | 5-Nov | Mon | PROBABILITY WEEK | 17,18 | |||
| 7-Nov | Wed | ||||||
| 9-Nov | Fri | Project mockups due | |||||
| 10 | 12-Nov | Mon | PROBABILITY WEEK | 19,20 | |||
| 14-Nov | Wed | ||||||
| 16-Nov | Fri | Exam 2 | |||||
| 11 | 19-Nov | Mon | On being confident | 20 | |||
| 21-Nov | Wed | ||||||
| Thanksgiving | |||||||
| 12 | 26-Nov | Mon | On being significant | 22,23 | |||
| 28-Nov | Wed | Some standard significance tests | |||||
| 30-Nov | Fri | Some cookbook methods: t-tests, chi-square tests | Projects due | ||||
| 13 | 3-Dec | Mon | Project presentations, more standard methods | 24 | Project presentations | ||
| 5-Dec | Wed | ||||||
| 7-Dec | Fri | ||||||
| 14 | 10-Dec | Mon | Review, class picture, class party | ||||
| End of Classes | |||||||
| 17-Dec | Mon | FINAL EXAM 9am to noon | |||||